Senior Art Director W384Y3W6 — Austin, TX

Senior Art Director

Employment: Full-Time

Salary: $100K - $130K

On-site in Austin, TX

Our client partners with mission-driven organizations to drive true transformation. As an AI-native, future-focused creative force, they bring brand, communications, experience, and media together to build trust and create a lasting competitive advantage. For this team, change isn't just a buzzword—it's how they operate every single day. They've built a culture anchored in curiosity, collaboration, and accountability, and they do their best work when they actively push boundaries.

How they work: Brave. Original. Lively. Driven

This role comes with a competitive benefits package including health, dental, short-term disability, PTO, and retirement plans.

Open to exceptional talent throughout the Central Time Zone.

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Art Director who lives in the work. This is a hands-on, senior creative who can take an idea from spark to final asset without waiting for permission.

You won't be running a department. You'll be in the work — concepting, designing, producing, and presenting — while partnering across strategy, account, digital, content, and production. Your job is to turn complex business problems into creative that people actually feel across brand, digital, social, campaigns, web, and experiences.

The right person has elite craft, sharp ideas, and the production chops to execute. You're fluent in AI-powered workflows, and you know when to push an idea further and when to bring others in. One day you're pitching a big idea to leadership. The next, you're perfecting type, cutting a social video, building motion, or testing a new AI tool to work faster and better.

What you'll Do

• Lead the Creative

• Own concept development across brand systems, campaigns, digital, print, social, web, and experiential

• Run projects end-to-end from brief to final delivery with minimal oversight

• Turn strategy into visual systems and stories that move people

• Present work with clarity and defend the thinking behind it

• Build AI into your process — for ideation, production, and exploration

• Keep us sharp on what's new in design tech and help us level up

• Bring creative fire to pitches and new business

Make the Work

• Create exceptional design across every channel: digital, print, web, social, decks, and campaigns

• Generate multiple directions and iterate fast with feedback

• Design websites, landing pages, and digital experiences in Figma

• Craft high-stakes presentations for workshops and executive audiences

• Produce motion graphics and animation that bring ideas to life

• Edit short-form video for social and thought leadership

• Deliver production-ready files for print, digital, and motion

• Sweat the details: typography, composition, systems, and craft

• Design with UX, accessibility, and responsiveness in mind

• Collaborate with photographers, developers, illustrators, writers, and external partners to bring work to life

How You Operate

• You're self-directed. You don't need someone checking in daily.

• You own your work and finish what you start.

• You balance big-picture thinking with getting your hands dirty.

• You thrive in collaborative rooms but don't need constant direction.

• You're curious. You're always learning, always testing new tools — especially AI.

• You're organized and hold a high bar for quality on everything you ship.

• You help manage timelines, scope, and deliverables

• You oversee vendors, contractors, and collaborators

• You make sure everything goes out on-brand, on-time, and on-strategy

What you bring

• 8–12 years in an agency or consultancy with a portfolio that proves both big ideas and flawless execution. A degree is great, but your work matters more.

• Deep toolset including:

• Adobe Creative Cloud: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects

• Design & Collaboration: Figma, Miro

• Content & Web: CapCut, Canva, Adobe Express, Webflow or similar

• AI: Firefly, Midjourney, Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT and others

• Project Management: ClickUp, Asana, or similar

This is an onsite role working full-time in the Austin, TX area. Open to exceptional talent throughout the Central Time Zone.

To apply, please submit your resume and portfolio link/case studies for immediate consideration

We receive a high volume of applications, so we're unable to respond individually. If your qualifications align, well, reach out by phone, email, or text. Message and data rates may apply.

FYe6nVVRVT is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We consider all applicants without regard to protected characteristics and are committed to a workplace where diversity, equity, and inclusion fuel creative excellence.