Art Director

JPL is one of the Mid-Atlantic's largest full-service, integrated, marketing agencies. The firm provides strategic thinking and creative execution across a full range of services that include brand, digital, marketing, advertising, video production and internal communications.

We’re looking for an advertising art director who can generate strategic concepts from a creative brief and bring them to life through design. We want you to be all the clichés: talented, hard working, enthusiastic, confident, professional, etc. But mostly we want you to be you.

• Design superior graphics and layouts for brand identity, advertising and integrated communications, social, and environments.
• Strong layout and typography skills.
• Collaborate with team members to develop concepts across a wide variety of media.
• Lead photo and video shoots, and guide photography editing.
• Communicating clearly and speaking articulately to creative strategy as it relates to the client’s business objectives and its application in design work.
• Awe internal and external clients in presentations.

• 3-6 years of agency experience and formal training in Communication or Graphic Design: Bachelor’s Degree in design, fine arts or marketing communications.
• Knowledge of graphic design, information design, information architecture, typography, interaction design, motion graphics and aesthetics.
• Thorough knowledge, experience and proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite.
• Design experience with current web and multimedia technologies; skilled in integrating overall design with digital requirements. Motion and video art direction experience is a plus.
• Proven excellent interpersonal and communication skills, collaboration, and time management.