Art Director
Role: Art Director
Location: Chicago, Illinois
About the role:
As Art Director, you'll work as both thinker and maker. You'll concept alongside copywriters and strategists, then pick up a camera and bring the work to life yourself. Embedded in a fast-moving social newsroom, you'll react to real-time cultural moments, shape brand voice across platforms, and extend ideas from social into digital, traditional, and experiential. You'll present your thinking with clarity — to Creative Directors and directly to brand teams — and manage projects from brief through final delivery without losing sight of craft or consistency.
What you will be doing:
Concept culture-forward ideas, campaigns, and activations built for social-first audiences, extending across digital, traditional, and experiential
Operate in a social newsroom environment, identifying and responding to real-time cultural moments on behalf of clients brand portfolio
Plan, shoot, and edit photo and video content, applying a strong eye for craft, composition, storytelling, and brand voice
Partner with Social Strategists to shape creative content strategies across organic and paid channels
Present and articulate ideas clearly to Creative Directors and brand teams
Manage multiple projects simultaneously from brief through final delivery, maintaining quality and consistency across all assets
What you need to be great in this role:
A portfolio with a clear social and digital emphasis, demonstrating both conceptual thinking and hands-on production craft
Hands-on production skills: shooting, editing, retouching, and layout
Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Premiere Pro, InDesign) and/or Final Cut Pro
The ability to translate strategy into a visual idea, and a visual idea into polished, finished content
A genuine understanding of culture — entertainment, sports, gaming, and emerging platforms — and how brands participate meaningfully within them
Experience working in a social-first or newsroom-style creative environment
Proficiency with Gen AI tools relevant to art direction and visual production, used to enhance output quality and efficiency
Experience developing personal workflows to support ideation, concepting, and production
Ability to critically evaluate AI outputs and apply considered human judgement
Agentic approach to creative problem-solving: breaking complex briefs into clear, actionable paths forward
Req ID: 18073
#LI-SP1 #LI-DIRECTOR #LI-HYBRID At the time of this posting, the base salary for this position may range according to what's stated below. Individual compensation varies based on job related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. The range listed is just one component of OLIVER’s total compensation package.
Salary Range
$68,000—$76,000 USD
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