Art director for Global company

Company Overview
日本でビジネスを展開するブランドのビジネス目標の達成と成長をサポートする、総合マーケティング・コミュニケーション・エージェンシーです。コミュニケーション、ブランド体験、コマース、テクノロジーを駆使し、クライアントや消費者のニーズの変化に柔軟に対応できるエージェンシーであることが、これまで以上に重要となっています。私たちは、ブランドと消費者とのつながりが、ビジネスにインパクトを与え、意義深い変化をもたらすと信じ、体験主導型のクリエイティブ・エージェンシーとして、グローバル、そして日本における専門知識と最新のマーケティング能力を融合させ、日々のビジネス・チャレンジに対応しながら、クライアントを明日、そして未来の成功へ導きます.

Job Description
The Digital Art Director is a crucial part of the team for one of our promient client, and will work closely with the Creative Director, Creative, Business and Strategy teams.

The successful candidate will have extensive experience in designing across digital platforms – web or social and is always looking for the newest trends in the digital world and technology. We are looking for a talented creative, capable of designing visual concepts to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, or captivate consumers across a wide range of media, with the ability to also deliver contents adhering to brand guidelines and the ability to understand performance data to translate into creative optimisation of content.

Requirements
Must have experience of designing engaging and well-crafted visual comms across all digital channels including social, content & CRM
Have been working in a similar position for at least 3 years in Japan, be hands on, and be able to work autonomously as well as part of a team, in a faced paced atmosphere.
Able to tell stories through crafted design, effective use of technology and visionary user experience, especially being able to command the client’s attention.
Experience designing for moving image - motion graphics & video editing
Big picture thinking with strong attention to detail
Great communication skills, written & verbal, when it comes to directing or presenting design concepts
Experience of another highly regulated sector such as Pharma or Alcohol would be helpful but not mandatory
Excellent Mac skills, fully conversant with Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop & After Effects

Additional Job Information
Responsibilities
To confidently develop and present big ideas, that are consumer insight- and data-driven and solve client’s business needs, taking the idea through digital marketing channels like CRM, programmatic, social.
To execute ideas flawlessly, paying particular attention to consumer engagement
To contribute to the communication, demonstration, and evolution of the creative product at the highest possible standard.
To interact with clients, project handlers and strategists to gain a total understanding of the client’s business strategy and the market in which it is competing.
Work closely with other members of the team to ensure the highest standard of creative output which delivers against key objectives
To confidently take your approved idea through to production alongside a producer – in pre-production, on-set where required and in post-production.
To challenge creative briefs with additional ideas that prove our creative ability on top of the original brief.
To build & design compelling pitch decks (Keynote/PowerPoint)
To embrace new technologies and bring it into creative ideas and content.

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