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Job Title: Senior Art Director
Job Location: NY: New York
Pay Rate: Open
Job Length: full time
Start Date: 2008-08-16

Company Name: iCrossing
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Description: Senior Art Director

Company: iCrossing Job ID#: 68042 # of Positions: 1 Posted: 08/07/2008 Job Type: Full Time Location: New York, New York Department: Delivery - Creative Category: Exempt Salary: iC Grade 24 Benefits: Full Benefits

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Job Description

Role: You are a designer. You live and breathe design and have the portfolio to support it. You are an entrepreneur. You have the innate ability to manage projects, people and client expectations. A designer with a knack for marketing – it all comes together in the Senior Art Director role at iCrossing’s Los Angeles office. Here, where the beach meets the bleeding edge, you’ll provide forward-thinking creative leadership and inspire creative collaboration within our agency. With a trained eye on challenging the industry status quo, you’ll be continually engaged in delivering outstanding work on projects large and small, from web engagements to display advertising and internal promotions to external presentations. Equally comfortable leading a team of designers, presenting to clients, and defining strategy, you’llalso get to keep your own creative muscles flexed as you personally create and design for our ever-expanding list of Fortune 500 clients. Adjectives used to describe your creative work…killer, award-winning, re-defining, how did they do that? Adjectives to describe your management skills…cool, calm, organized. Major Job Accountabilities: * Provide forward-thinking creative leadership * Inspire creative collaboration across the organization * Effectively translate branding and marketing strategies for a wide range of clients/verticals into exceptional creative concepts and executions * Develop and create innovative concepts in keeping with project scope: strategic positioning, business requirements, timelines, and budgets * Lead design team in delivery of outstanding design for all-things digital: large scale web engagements, online advertising, digital marketing, business development initiatives, brand boards, and video * Serve as mentor to design team * Prepare creative deliverables (brand boards, creative comps, and style guides) * Present creative concepts internally and externally * Manage entire creative process and large-scale projects

Skills/Requirements Requirements: Education/Experience: * 4-year degree in a related field * 5 years in a leadership role in an interactive, design, or advertising agency * Proven success in online and offline media delivered in an impressive portfolio of work (electronic submission or URL preferred) * Consistent display of interest and involvement in the industry. Applicants are encouraged to include links/references to relevant activities that help round out their experience and interests. These references could be participation in or utilization of online communities, forums, blogs, ezines, contests, and/or personal projects.

Knowledge/Technical Skills: * Expert capabilities in website design and user interface information architecture implementation * Extensive experience implementing web design best practices and highly intuitive visual design techniques * Understanding of capabilities and restrictions of selected technologies in the online space (HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Flash) Abilities: * To digest complexity and deliver simplicity * Superior design skills * Strong concepting skills * Passion for the creative process * Excellent communication skills * Keen organization and project management skills * Desire to work with art directors and designers of all levels * Self-motivated, entrepreneurial * Full use of both sides of brain * Can-do attitude and positive work ethic * Cultivates teamwork * Good problem-solving skills * Strong presentation skills

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