Senior Art Director
Full time
at Avatar International
in
South Africa
Posted on February 5, 2025
Job details
Job title : Senior Art Director Job Location : Gauteng, Deadline : February 17, 2025 Quick Recommended Links Duties Creative Excellence - To act as directed by the CD/ECD/CCO as per the creative brief Generate effective, innovative, and compelling creative concepts for individual ads or campaigns based on sound strategies.
- Direct and produce effective, impactful, and compelling advertising that reflects insight into the task, the brand and the target market.
- Craft and finish to the highest possible standard all artwork relating to a specific job or campaign.
- Proactively identify creative trends and opportunities.
- Assist with selecting voices, sound effects, music, and music composers that fit the project and the budget.
- Direct radio and TV soundtracks toward a high-quality final product.
- Strive for excellence (relevant, current, ground-breaking).
- Present competently in reviews and to clients, articulating clearly the creative rationale for the work being presented.
- Develop a valuable relationship with internal teams.
- Create integrated “solutions” as opposed to “one-off” ads.
- Work with internal teams at reviews and client presentations
- Clarify the exact purpose/deliverables of a brief before developing the work.
- Embrace a culture of ‘solutions not problems’ within the creative department.
Requirements Qualifications & Experience - Matric
- Relevant Diploma / Degree
- Experience in Financial Services will advantageous
- Technical skills include Design, Art Direction, Illustration, Rendering, Storyboarding, Retouching, and photo manipulation, understanding of web/online media, Photo Shoot direction, understanding of music, vocals and the TV Production process
- A portfolio that reflects creative conceptual proficiencies.
- Flair for art direction/design, broad, intrusive, creative, and original work
- Ability to deliver creative work of distinction
- Capability to take on campaigns with multi-element tasks that require a concept and a thought-through process
- Experience with software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Adobe After Effects, Video Editing, Flash, etc
- Has achieved merit-worthy excellence by winning awards in their field of expertise
- Art / Languages jobs
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