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.