Senior Art Director, Product Design

As a Senior Art Director, crafting creative concepts that translate visually is your bread and butter. You are an original thinker and a team player—matching strategic direction with appropriate design results across digital experiences. In addition to creativity, keen attention to detail makes your work stellar. Also, you want to keep learning, but you want leadership experience, too. Good news—you’ll have mentorship from a Creative Director to help you grow, and you’ll manage a small team of designers, as well.

You will:

• Design solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives.
• Create highly usable interface solutions focused on user experience.
• Manage projects with limited input from a Creative Director.
• Guide and direct up to four designers with thorough delegation, follow-up, and mentorship.
• Rationalize solutions to project teams and clients.
• Balance creative with client business requirements.
• Design mood boards, storyboards, interactive immersive page layouts, site grids and interface demos, familiar with high-fidelity photo retouching and applying motion when needed.
• Provide quality assurance on creative deliverables. Build and maintain a rapport with creative team, account managers, and project managers. Visualize and verbalize ideas to team and client.

You have:

• 4+ years education and experience in design and interactive.
• Strong design portfolio.
• Developed and diverse communication skills.
• Ability to articulate creative ideas.
• Proven aptitude for quick creative thinking with acute attention to detail within demanding deadlines.
• A solid working knowledge of the latest versions of Mac OS, Figma, and the Adobe Creative Suite.
• An understanding of the strengths and limitations of all creative tools, plus a strong understanding of information architecture and content hierarchy.
• A strong ability to tell stories with their designs.
• Comprehensive understanding of interactivity and the Web.
• Motion graphics experience for the Web and video a plus.

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, onboarding, and employee experience possible! Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 4 days a week. The ask stems from our want to:

• Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning
• Improve collaboration and team relationships
• Increase employee engagement

This work model balances the need for individual flexibility while maintaining the relentless customer focus we provide at CM. We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly.