Technology Partners is currently seeking a talented Senior Art Director/Animator. Do you have experience with Adobe Creative Suite, particularly After Effects? Let us help you make your next big career move a reality!
What You Will Be Doing:
We are seeking a talented and visionary Art Director/Animator with expertise in social media, animation, and design. You will be responsible for creating high-impact visual concepts and animations, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to produce creative campaigns that align with strategic business goals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Contributes to the development of visual creative concepts and develops high-impact designs and animation in partnership with our multidisciplinary teams. This work can encompass large, complex, personalized, and/or general campaigns and content across multiple audiences and channels for a variety of business areas (s).
- Provides visual ideation, development, and execution of social media creative strategy in partnership and alignment with copywriting partner(s), strategists, and key internal stakeholders.
- Assists team in presentations of creative concepts and visual approaches to business areas and key stakeholders to gain their support, while also collecting and applying appropriate feedback to concepts.
- Aligns strategy, visual direction, and thematics/concepts to the business objectives, strategies, audience(s), brand strategy & standards, messaging, and technology needed to achieve the firm’s goals.
- Contributes and co-leads visual direction and animation into visual systems alongside bespoke campaign visual elements to ensure the approved concept(s) remain consistent throughout a project’s lifecycle.
- Amplifies creative process improvements that impact the department's quality, efficiency, and value.
- Assists with, anticipates, and consults with creative leaders, brand and marketing teams, external agencies/vendors and/or strategy partners to ensure project and brand-level goals are achievable through the lens of the Art Direction expertise.
- Collaborates with the creative team to establish short and long-term creative social strategies, using research to inform concepts and visual approaches that work in harmony with the copywriter’s and content strategist’s co-execution.
- Keeps the project team updated and manages the sharing of critical information via project management technologies and other channels across multiple projects.
- Assist in reinforcing meaningful relationships and trust with key stakeholders, connecting project teams and strategic partners inside and outside the firm when necessary.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 4+ years of Art Director or Animation experience, ideally with an emphasis on omni-channel campaigns, and social media, and with experience in creating video or animation.
- A well-rounded portfolio that showcases a broad range of work in design, animation, conceptual thinking, and rationale — but also in media and execution. Please include a portfolio link in your application.
- A Bachelor’s degree in design, marketing, communication, motion design/animation, film/video production, or another related field.
- Proficiency and expandable expertise in Adobe Creative Suite, specifically with a high level of comfort in After Effects and proficiency in general Microsoft Office usage.
- Strong knowledge of design principles and systems, social media-specific design and best practices, brand development + expansion, and creative strategy, with an eye on emerging platforms, trends, and media.
- A growth mindset — actively applying techniques to improve oneself, alongside identifying and encouraging improvement among the team and the Brand + Agency.
- An avid learner of all things design and animation: systems, typography, 2D motion, new technologies, social media trends, and beyond. A familiarity with creating 3D is a plus, but not required.
- Familiarity with and comfort working in waterfall- or agile-like project management environments.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Personal project management skills — with the ability to effectively prioritize, manage, and execute numerous projects simultaneously with minimal supervision.
- Highly self-motivated with a high level of attention to detail to do incredible work that elevates the brand.
Pay: $45.64 – $65.20 /hr.
We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to provide sponsorship at this time or accept candidates who would require a corp-to-corp agreement.
If this position sounds like you, WE SHOULD TALK!
We realize our people are our most valuable asset, that is why we offer the following benefits:
- Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Long and Short-Term disability
- Life insurance
- Direct deposit
- Referral program
Your better future is ready, and we want to put the right tools in your hands to get you there. Let's go!
Keywords: Art Direction, Animation, Visual Design, Adobe Creative Suite, After Effects, Social Media, Omni-channel Campaigns, Motion Design, Video Production, Creative Strategy, Brand Development, Typography, 2D Motion
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Technology Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Technology Partners does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable state or federal civil rights laws.
All offers of employment at Technology Partners are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check and drug screening that meet corresponding laws and regulations at the city, state and federal level.
Pay ranges are influenced by candidate qualifications, experience, and role specifics, with the actual rate determined considering skills, market conditions, and are subject to change by the employer; pay negotiations follow all state and federal legal guidelines.
