Purpose
The Junior Art Director partners with a copywriter to conceive and design concepts and visual solutions for various social platforms, presentations, integrated campaigns, and more.

Responsibilities
Art Direction and Concepting
● Works in concert with a Copywriter to develop and design great creative concepts and presentation approaches.
● Takes responsibility for finalizing files, prepping for production and maintaining existing quality standards.
● Conceive, design, and produce an array of visual assets including (but not limited to): paid and organic social posts, gifs, memes, stickers, infographics, presentations, motion graphics, templates, mood boards, press kits, ads, and marketing materials
● Develop and comp designs for a variety of social platforms, such as IG, X, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Reddit, etc.
● Find creative ways to leverage, repurpose and resize existing photography and assets
● Help art directors and teammates comp their creative concepts
● Present concepts with the Junior Art Director to the Associate Creative Director and Creative Director.
● Report to Associate Creative Director and/ Creative Director on project status.
● Incorporate feedback from Creative Directors, and clients with precision and a positive attitude
● Understanding of visual hierarchy and design principles
● Remains current on industry trends and technology.

Quality Control
● Ensures the quality, craft and implementation of all work done on projects assigned.
● Delivers creative work that is on time, on target and on budget.
● Pays meticulous attention to detail
● Reviews work to ensure accuracy
● Becomes an expert in brand standards

Relationship Management
● Collaborates with writers, strategists, account management, and clients.
● Understands the Client’s business, brand, products and their customers.
● Always leads by example.

Competencies
Creative Stewardship. A high standard of creative work that is award-winning, applauded by the industry and appreciated by existing clients and new business prospects.
Relationship Management. A professional role model with positive influence who motivates colleagues. Ability to collaborate with all key stakeholders across all offices.
Cultural Leader. Help activate and foster the McKinney culture, and serve as a McKinney Brand Ambassador to the advertising industry.

Professional Skills & Knowledge
● Creativity. Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
● Project Management. Quickly zeros in on the critical few and puts the trivial many aside; can quickly sense what will help or hinder accomplishing a goal; eliminates roadblocks; creates focus.
● Presentation Skills. Is effective in a variety of formal presentation settings: one-on-one, small and large groups, with peers and managers; is effective both inside and outside the organization, on both cool data and hot and controversial topics; commands attention and can manage group processes during the presentation; can change tactics midstream when something isn’t working.
● Functional / Technical Skills. Must be an expert in Adobe Creative Suite. Flash, CSS, Javascript and front-end development skills are a plus.

Skills
● Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.), as well as emerging digital and social design trends
● Experience with Google Suite (Slides, Sheets, etc.)
● Working knowledge of digital, UX and UI design principals a plus
● Knowledge of AfterEffects, Sketch and HTML are a plus, but not mandatory
● Animation skills a plus, but not mandatory

Experience
Ideal candidate should have up to 1 year of internship and/or work experience as an art director or designer. A creative portfolio is required.

Salary Range

Our estimated range for this role is $60k - $75k

Compensation packages are based on the skill level and experience each candidate brings to their role. There may also be a more senior or junior position available that could be a better fit with your expertise. Each level has its own compensation range.

We pride ourselves on competitive salaries, and ensuring pay equity exists across our organization. We benchmark each position against existing employee competencies and 4As compensation data which includes geographic and agency size benchmarks. We also meet with department leaders 3x/year to ensure we are supporting employees in living into their full potential. Our promotions are not limited to a specific time per year. Promotions are tied to performance.

Right To Work In The US

You must be authorized to work in the US for any employer. At this time, we are not sponsoring or providing assistance with obtaining work authorization.

McKinney is a place where everyone can grow. Studies have shown that marginalized communities such as women, LGBTQ+ and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. However you identify, and whatever background you bring with you, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day.

We are in the office Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday on a hybrid schedule. We look forward to meeting you!