Art Director at Momentum

Requirements

• Qualification in Graphic Design
• 5-7 years’ experience in Art direction/Graphic Design and other facets of design e.g. typography, illustration, art, digital design etc.
• Experience in leading design projects and coaching junior designers
• Comfortable with using the latest design and creative software
• Proof checking experience or the ability thereof must be high
• Business skills and or studies are highly advantageous

Duties & Responsibilities

Amazing Stakeholder Service & Management

• Understand your stakeholder’s environment to create a culture that assists you to land proactive ideas of relevance and enabling outcomes in meaningful ways for a variety of stakeholders.
• Seek clarity with positive and appreciative enquiry methods, to ascertain stakeholder expectations in relation to the creative brief received.
• Collaborate with all members of the Momentum Brand team to contribute to effective communication across the campaign value chain.
• Deliver on team agreements made with internal and external stakeholders to drive reliability & consistency required of the team.
• Make recommendations to improve stakeholder service within the Creative studio (Your voice matters).
• Develop and maintain productive and collaborative working relationships with agency partners, peers, and stakeholders.
• Provide your expertise and advice to stakeholders pre, during and post a campaign (Reflection or After-action reviews [AARs] are critical to up our game, and assist with your own personal development).

Well Considered Research, Insights & Best Practice

• Identify best practices through research and development and case studies to ensure that creative concepts and brand positioning stays top of mind (data rich team debates and engagements are insightful and grow everyone).
• Ensure understanding and implementation (where relevant) of the latest design trends and thinking (Be keen to push the boundaries of your ideas while being inspired by these trends).
• Continuously develop your own expertise in terms of your own professional and industry knowledge (You need a 3–5-year plan, and we get that).
• Identify risks and opportunities to enhance cost effectiveness and increase operational efficiency within the Creative Studio (You direct more than art, you are more than a designer, you’re a critical thinker too).

The Gift Of a Brief & Idea Conceptualisation

• Use your gift to produce and craft magical and implementable concepts in response to mandated creative briefs.
• Conceptualise proactive briefs by using existing/new templates and formats, and develop relevant material for proactive briefs (We love a well – structured preamble, a mood board, and a few applications to get the gist of the idea).
• With the support of the Creative Manager, provide input into the conceptualisation and design of the creative brief and campaign messaging framework, for mandated and/or creative briefs.
• When ideating in the proactive space, remember that you are in the idea of selling your ideas internally, so make sure that this is a skill that’s sharpened through years of experience, to make these opportunities meaningful for your career. Sell and fail if you must but sell again.

World Class Visual Communications & Structured Guiding Framework

• Develop all brand marketing campaign visual elements either individually, together with the studio team members, or in association with partner agencies.
• Work within the Momentum Brand Corporate Identity (CI) and maintain the required brand elements while producing innovative, powerful, and effective designs.
• Get a firm understanding of all supporting identities and toolkits such as the digital toolkit and social media play book, to ensure a seamless transition of ideas onto our digital, social and employee marketing platforms.
• Create intelligent, beautifully packaged, clean, and contemporary designs that:
• Ensures that all photography, videos, gifs, boomerangs, images, and texts are manipulated where necessary and are always within the correct format for the chosen communication medium.
• Check layout, images, and logo usage in relation to the brief (if you have speed on your side and you have an eye for alignment and proportions, it will go a long way to create space for you to ideate on more proactive work).
• Set information correctly for reproduction and printing (rarely but when applicable).
• Design work for mobile and other screen media and ensure that work is correct for the medium (e.g., Tik Tok is not an extension of Instagram).
• Develop layouts for quick approvals for mediums like WhatsApp groups etc.
• Proof checked copy will be provided, but use your expert attention to detail, once your layout is complete, to minimise reverts within the Creative Studio.
• Convert documents to the relevant format, using best practise version control methods, and upload all final version in the central brand repository upon completion.

Superb Design Delivery

• Manage the creative and design aspect of projects in a way that will support the optimal and overall delivery of the campaign. Superb design delivery is key here.
• With the support of the Creative Manager, assist and guide the design team for campaign creative design and delivery.
• Contribute to continuous innovation through the development, sharing and implementation of new ideas in the Creative Studio.

Awesome Team Culture

• Participate and contribute to a culture which fosters rewarding relationships, builds teams and the culture of teamwork, encourages candour but not brutal honesty, facilitates a positive environment of active listening and magical feedback amongst colleagues, encourages vulnerability to create psychological safety to progress the team through its highs and lows, and dramatise a culture of excellence - so that we always provide exceptional design delivery for the brand.
• Positively influence and participate in culture work, team building, and change initiatives as and when required.
• Take ownership for appreciating and driving your mental wellness, personal and career development.
• Brainstorm and plan for your training needs in advance but take time to also discuss the systems and resources required to deliver powerful ideas and designs for the Momentum Brand.
• Be open to one-on-one feedback sessions, because we believe that where our people grow, we go.

Competencies

• Business Acumen
• Stakeholder Commitment
• Drive for Results
• Collaboration
• Impact and Influence
• Self-Awareness and Insight