Art Director

Stripe

WHO WE ARE About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team Stripe is investing in building out its Creative Design team within the Stripe Delivery Center (SDC) to reach users across the globe. The team designs comprehensive ad campaigns tailored for various platforms, ensuring that every visual element aligns with our marketing goals and engages our audience effectively. We create net-new creative content and localize and adapt our work to meet the unique cultural and linguistic needs of different regions, presenting our message effectively in global languages. In addition to advertising and web content, we produce high-quality designs for presentations and collateral aimed at large users and executive audiences. Our designs enhance the clarity and impact of our messages, making complex information accessible and engaging—whether for a client pitch or an executive strategy session. WHAT YOU'LL DO Designers at Stripe's SDC bring a passion for captivating storytelling and great design. They use design systems to tell compelling stories to a variety of audiences, and are well-versed at expanding, evolving, defining, and documenting flexible design systems that achieve bar-raising quality and consistency for the brand at scale. They are user-focused, business-savvy, empathetic, and inspiring. The ideal candidate excels across a variety of styles, crisply articulates design decisions, iterates quickly, and collaborates seamlessly with marketers, product managers, leaders, other designers, and cross-functional partners. Responsibilities * Ideate, design, and produce world-class design solutions—both static and motion—across a range of deliverables including presentations, posters, brand art, and signage. * Steward designers through large-scale projects, providing art direction and ongoing guidance on creative strategy, execution, and localization. * Work across a wide variety of mediums (physical, digital, and everything in between) to create immersive storytelling and creative content that brings Stripe's brand and product stories to life. * Bring design concepts to life through storyboarding, comps, and creative presentations, iterating based on stakeholder feedback and internal testing. * Collaborate with copywriters, static and motion designers, marketers, and ad operations to develop visionary concepts that engage a global audience. * Mentor designers in best practices and ideation, fostering an environment where everyone learns and grows. * Present ideas in a clear, focused way that builds consensus within the team and with stakeholders. * Proactively identify and implement process improvements through automation and AI integration to enhance design quality and efficiency. Requirements * 6–10 years of relevant design and art direction experience, with a focus on technical or product-driven companies. * Strong track record of independently delivering high-quality work and influencing the output of other designers and cross-functional teams. * Proficiency in Figma, Canva, and the Adobe Creative Cloud suite (motion and statics). * Experience managing or mentoring a team of designers. * Ability to express and communicate a brand through distinct graphics, patterns, motion, interaction, and experiences. * A hands-on maker with the skills to effectively communicate concepts, direction, and decisions to teams and external partners. * Ability to balance speed and quality, consistently delivering challenging, interesting, and pixel-perfect work. * Persuasive and receptive to feedback; able to clearly explain work, process, and decisions. * Comfortable working flexible hours, including late evenings (IST), to collaborate in real time with global stakeholders. * Highly detail-oriented, with a drive for pixel-perfect craft. Preferred Qualifications * Multidisciplinary creative comfortable working across different mediums and excited about experimenting with new technologies. * Prior people management experience, with a track record of hiring, developing, and growing design talent. * Experienced at facilitating stakeholder alignment and advocating for design quality.

Avalanche Studios Group

We are now seeking an Art Director to be a part of our project moving from the prototyping phase into pre-production. This is a rare opportunity to join and help build a brand new team and impact the identity of an IP for years to come. If you are a person who likes being challenged and stimulated in an ambitious and talented environment this position will suit you perfectly!

Oliver

Established in 2004, OLIVER is the world’s first and only specialist in designing, building, and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency, allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences.  As a part of The Brandtech Group, we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.  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 Our values shape everything we do:  Be Ambitious to succeed    Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible    Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work    Be always learning and listening to understand    Be Results-focused  to exceed expectations    Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations     OLIVER, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.     OLIVER has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively, we work towards our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.