Art Director - Designer in London

Art Director

Why choose Tag?

We are the long-standing, production partner of choice that has helped brands across borders and cultures for over half a century achieve their business goals. With 2,700 experts in 29 countries across the world, we are a global team of collaborators, innovators, and motivators.

We pride ourselves on creating empowering, safe, and supportive environments for all our employees, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, ability, or any other defining factor. We embrace difference through diversity of thought, experience, and expertise to maximise potential and bring the greatest benefits for our people and our clients.

We can’t bring big ideas to life without exceptional people. At Tag, we respect individuality and the power of the collective. We want people to be themselves, unafraid to voice ideas, no matter how big they are or who they come from.

In June 2023, Tag was acquired by dentsu Group, Inc, though we remain a distinct brand that is led by David Kassler, Tag Global CEO, headquartered in London. As dentsu’s acquisition of Tag significantly expands content delivery capabilities, Tag’s expertise to deliver personalized, omnichannel content in real-time and at-scale for clients remains unparalleled across the entire customer journey, unlocking marketing effectiveness and efficiency.

Tag and dentsu bring together our innovation and technology infrastructure to help solve clients’ toughest challenges. United in business acumen, we share similar core values, company culture, and embrace a vision “to be at the forefront of people-centric transformations that shape society”.

dentsu was founded over 120 years ago and proudly counts nearly 72,000 employees around the world.

Job Description

The Art Director works with the Creative Director to conceptualize all visual output for projects, establishing the visual language and setting the tone and animation style. This position helps to guide execution of all projects.

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Art, Design, or Animation
• 8+ years’ experience in Art, Design & Animation
• Mastery of Adobe Suites Software
• Ability to prioritize under tight time constraints and to work successfully in a fast-paced environment
• Effective interpersonal skills across teams and when liaising with clients
• Understanding of Advertising business, conceptual creative process, idea explorations
• Knowledge of digital platforms, including online, mobile, tablets, and other emerging technologies
• Knowledge of designing for print and print formats
• Ownership of projects, with the ability to carry out projects from concept to delivery
• Understanding of narrative structure and storytelling
• Excellent communication skills
• Possession of superior presentation skills – both in creation and verbalization

Responsibilities

(* denotes an “essential function”)

• * Conceptualize and execute high-quality visuals for commercials and other clients
• * Conceive and design storyboards for pitches and for pre-visualizations
• * Work with Creative Director and other designers to create and design high-caliber motion graphics and other visuals
• Supervise Designers and others involved in creative process
• Carry out projects from concept to delivery
• *Bring forward new and unique ideas and approaches
• *Design storyboards to develop visual style concepts
• Interact with different levels of management, production and design teams

As an ethical employer, Tag will never ask job applicants to provide private, sensitive information upfront or make offers of employment contingent on financial requests or responsibilities from any candidate.