Art Director

5 days ago

Ottawa, Canada Virtual, Inc. Full time

**Summary**:inmotion is a dynamic and innovative marketing agency dedicated to crafting compelling and impactful visual narratives for our clients. We specialize in delivering creative solutions that resonate with target audiences across various industries. We are seeking a talented and visionary Art Director to join our team and lead the creative direction of our projects.

As an Art Director at inmotion, you will be responsible for conceptualizing, developing, and executing visually stunning campaigns that effectively communicate our clients' messages. You will lead the artistic vision, ensuring that all designs align with brand guidelines and marketing objectives. This role requires a keen eye for detail, strong leadership skills, and a passion for innovative design.

**This position requires working out of our Ottawa, ON office 3 days/week (Monday-Wednesday anchor days).**

**Here's what you'll do**:

- Creative Direction: Lead the artistic direction of projects from concept to completion, ensuring consistency and excellence in design across all deliverables.
- Collaboration: Collaborate with copywriters, designers, and other team members to brainstorm ideas, develop concepts, and execute campaigns that meet client objectives.
- Team Leadership: Inspire and mentor members of the creative team, providing guidance, feedback, and support to foster professional growth and ensure high-quality work.
- Trend Awareness: Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and design innovations to keep our agency at the forefront of creativity and innovation.
- Project Management: Manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritizing tasks, meeting deadlines, and ensuring that deliverables are completed on time and within budget.
- Presentation Skills: Present concepts and designs to clients in a clear, compelling manner, effectively articulating the creative vision and rationale behind each decision.
- Directly manage and mentor members of the design team.

**As our next Art Director, you will bring**:

- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Fine Arts, or related field.
- Proven experience as an Art Director or in a similar creative role within a marketing agency or related industry.
- Strong portfolio showcasing a diverse range of creative projects, including print and digital campaigns.
- Proficiency in industry-standard design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Creative thinking and problem-solving abilities.
- Flexibility to adapt to evolving client needs and project requirements.
- 10 - 12 years of experience in Design and overall Art Direction

**About inmotion, a Virtual company**:
Inmotion is an independent, creatively driven, branding, advertising and marketing agency located in Ottawa. Since 1979, we've helped associations and government organizations, and B2B and B2C brands, tell their unique stories to their target audiences in an emotionally engaging way that delivers strong ROI.

Our capabilities include brand strategy and positioning, public awareness campaigns, video and TV production, website designs and builds, logo and brand identity, as well as digital and social media campaigns.

**About Virtual Inc**:
Headquartered in Wakefield, MA with offices in Nashville, TN, Reston, VA, and Ottawa, ON, Virtual also brings together a remote workforce from all over North America. Founded in 1999, Virtual's innovative and inclusive culture is the driving force behind our success and continued growth.

Our Virtual Team is made up of passionate professionals who understand the needs of associations, standards organizations, consortia, startup advocacy groups, and professional societies. The expertise within the Virtual team enables our clients to achieve their goals and **make a mark on the world**. Virtual's global clients include organizations led by Google, Facebook, Microsoft and more. We also service organizations that are tackling some of the biggest challenges in the world today, from eating disorders, to space travel to noise pollution.

We are proud to be recognized in the Best Places to Work list, twice Living our values on a day-to-day basis is real. Not just a poster on the wall. **Virtual's** core values include trust, respect, inclusion, innovation, service excellence, empowerment, teamwork, generosity, and fun.**

Virtual, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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