Associate Creative Director, Art

Job description

Praytell is an integrated marketing and creative communications agency made by teams with strategic minds and spirited hearts. We create timely, integrated, headline-worthy campaigns across social, earned, digital and more. And we’ve picked up some pretty cool awards along the way, like PRWeek’s Best Place to Work (8x so far!), Agency of the Year and even a few your mom would recognize, even if she doesn’t fully get what you do for a living. Best of all, we’ve got a team of the smartest, kindest, most curious and supportive humans on the planet.

And guess what? There’s an empty seat here with your name on it. If you’re looking for an opportunity to join an ambitious team that is singularly focused on doing great work with great people, we’d love to hear from you!

As an Associate Creative Director, Art you will be:

• Supporting and leading best-in-class conceptual and creative ideation and execution for multiple clients.
• Crafting concepts for culture-forward campaigns and creative platforms via visuals and ideas  that ensure brands stay relevant and innovative in a fast-moving communications landscape.
• Clearly connecting your ideas to strategic and business objectives for your clients
• Driving concept-to-execution oversight for integrated campaigns, ensuring creative output across multiple clients remains consistent, innovative, and true to brand identity.
• Supporting internal marketing and learning & development efforts, sharing  creative or design POVs with the broader agency
• Fostering a culture of creativity and innovation within the team by mentoring designers, providing constructive feedback, and promoting an environment where new ideas are encouraged and explored.
• Collaborating across departments with designers, copywriters, social strategists, and other creatives to ensure a cohesive, multi-disciplinary approach to campaign execution.
• Ensuring projects meet the highest standards of quality and creativity by reviewing and approving final deliverables, while jumping into the design process when needed.
• Staying ahead of trends and platform updates, particularly in short-form video and user experience, to inform creative direction and strategy, making sure the work remains fresh, relevant, and culturally resonant.
• Reporting directly to the VP, Group Creative Director and working together to craft integrated creative campaigns

Experience you have:

• You have 6-8 years of experience in a creative environment, with at least two years in a senior design role. Experience in a digital or integrated comms agency highly preferred. A portfolio showcasing integrated campaign work and best-in-class art direction. Proven experience leading design projects from concept through to execution across a variety of brands, with a keen understanding of engaging with cultural moments.
• You have an expert understanding of the Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Generative AI (ChatGPT, DALL-E, Midjourney, Synthesia, Runway), and an interest in continuing to develop AI skills that will aid creative output
• A strong collaborator with a versatile modern skillset.
• You’re willing to be hands on with creative outputs
• A big bonus if you have experience in B2B or earned media marketing

Equally as important, you are:

• Ambitious and entrepreneurial
• Flexible and adaptable
• Meticulous and well organized
• A creative thinker and problem solver
• A hands on contributor— the ideal candidate is not just coming up with content directions but helping to execute them as well
• Inquisitive and eager to learn
• Collaborative and a team player
• Honest and approach all work ethically
• Committed to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in the workplace

We have a growing list of benefits and perks, including:

• Salary: $125,000 - $145,000 (Please note, the salary range for this role reflects the minimum and maximum compensation. In the spirit of transparency, we typically offer salaries within the 25th to 75th percentiles and cannot exceed the maximum listed. The final offer will depend on your experience, skills and qualifications.)
• Comprehensive health care (Medical, Dental, Vision)
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), where you receive shares of Project Worldwide, our parent company, for every year you work here
• Traditional and Roth 401(k) options with an annual employer contribution based on company performance
• Flexible Time Off (FTO), more than a dozen company holidays and mental health days
• Flexible work locations within the US, remote is a-ok! We also have physical hubs and offices in LA, SF, Austin, Chicago and New York
• Flex Fridays, aimed to keep Fridays meeting-free (with exceptions) for focused work and providing you space to support your personal wellbeing while delivering great client service
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) giving you and your family access to mental health resources, family and relationship support, career resources, legal and financial services, discounts and more
• Paid parental leave and fertility support programs
• Training and team-building programs and activities
• Camp Praytell, our company offsite (eligibility based on employee start date)
• Our wonderful Employee Resource Groups (BEACON, Compañeros, elevAsian, Herizon and Prism)
• And more!

Interview Process

• Submit Application
• Phone Screen (30 mins)
• Team Interview (1 hour)
• Final Interview (30 mins)
• Take Home Test (TBD)
• Offer
• Target Start Date: August