Braintrust

Art Director- 460

Braintrust Greater Boston

About Us

Braintrust is a user-owned talent network that connects top-tier professionals with the world's leading enterprises. We prioritize transparency, eliminating middlemen and high markups, ensuring job-seekers are matched swiftly to innovative roles while clients benefit from unparalleled efficiency and quality.

About The Hiring Process

The hiring process for this role involves completing your Braintrust profile, applying directly to the role on Braintrust, and undergoing a one-time screening to ensure you meet our vetted talent specifications. After this, the hiring team will contact you directly if they believe you are a suitable match.

Our process isn't for everyone, that's intentional. If you believe that you are a top candidate for this job, please join our network to give yourself the opportunity to work with top companies.

JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)

LOCATION: Work from anywhere - EST/EDT | partial day overlap

HOURLY RANGE Our client is looking to pay $95.00 – $108.00/hr

ESTIMATED DURATION: 40/week - long term

EXPERIENCE: 5-9 years

BRAINTRUST JOB ID: 11743

The Opportunity

Must Have

  • Proven experience working from creative concept to design execution for 360 marketing campaign in their portfolio
  • Strong typography, color, composition design sensibilities
  • Experience leading photo/video Art Direction and content creation

Nice To Have

  • Has proven experience working with copy, senior and junior designers
  • Passionate about brand and marketing strategic initiatives, creative concepts and design, as well as the Etsy brand
  • Communication skills including ability to articulate creative concepts and rationale to partners
  • Developing and documenting thorough brand campaign visual guidelines
  • Experienced and confident designing with illustration, animation and motion
  • Confident and collaborative leadership skills to keep the momentum going

What You'll Be Working On

Responsibilities

As an Art Director, this individual will concept and execute large scale buyer and seller integrated marketing campaigns that express Etsy’s mission and right to win. These campaigns consider the entire journey across owned and paid buyer and seller marketing channels to create a holistic brand experience. In addition to buyer and seller communications, the individual in this role will concept and create product marketing content that brings Etsy products to life for the adoption and use of our seller community. Responsibilities include:

  • Leading end-to-end concepting and execution efforts, removing blockers for teams as they arise and communicating project updates with appropriate team members.
  • Proactively flagging risks and highlighting potential solutions as project delays and scope shifts occur.
  • Strategically dissecting briefs and project requests to ensure objectives are clearly articulated at onset of project and team is in agreement
  • Planning and leading launches and project kickoffs
  • Developing and owning timelines, negotiating delivery schedules and scope as needed, overseeing quality control according to defined deliverables and objectives, while adhering to defined budget.
  • Leading photo and video shoots as needed.
  • Providing art direction for TV and commercial shoots
  • Creating estimates and timelines for manager and agency review
  • Convening the project team at critical points to resolve issues
  • Escalating issues to senior manager when appropriate

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Notes

Our employers all have varying legal and geographic requirements for their roles, they trust Braintrust to find them the talent that meet their unique specifications. For that reason, this role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. If you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around their consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.

Braintrust values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.
  • Seniority level

    Mid-Senior level
  • Employment type

    Full-time
  • Job function

    Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
  • Industries

    Technology, Information and Internet

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