Senior Art Director

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with the Creative Director and Lead Art Director to bring the creative vision to life across integrated campaigns, seasonal advertising, editorial content, lookbooks, events, digital experiences, social media, email, and direct mail.

• Direct art for fashion, beauty, and lifestyle photography and video shoots through to final execution.

• Oversee the art direction and design of both print and digital creative, utilizing typography, composition, color, imagery, and principles of luxury retail design.

• Create innovative concepts, mood boards, visual references, layouts, and design explorations.

• Work in partnership with photographers, stylists, producers, designers, copywriters, retouchers, and production teams from the concept stage to final output.

• Supervise image retouching and post-production through reviewing and marking up retouching proofs.

• Ensure visual consistency, refinement, excellence, product accuracy, and brand integrity in final imagery.

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external brand partners on cooperative and collaborative creative projects.

• Stay updated on fashion, luxury retail, photography, design, and cultural trends.

• Manage multiple high-profile projects while maintaining a balance between creative quality, production needs, timelines, and business goals.

• Mentor designers and junior art directors.

• Ensure that creative assets are production-ready, technically precise, and executed to high standards across print, digital, social, retail, and emerging platforms.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in art direction and design within the luxury fashion, retail, editorial, or a related creative field.

• An outstanding portfolio showcasing excellence in integrated campaigns, editorial storytelling, and art direction across print, digital, social, and experiential channels.

• Demonstrated experience in art directing fashion, beauty, and lifestyle photography and video shoots from pre-production through to on-set direction and post-production.

• Expert knowledge of typography, composition, color, imagery, and luxury visual design principles.

• Strong insight into luxury fashion, retail, photography, visual culture, and emerging design trends.

• Extensive experience in overseeing image retouching and post-production processes.

• Solid understanding of print production, color management, digital asset creation, and omnichannel content development.

• Proven capability to manage multiple creative projects simultaneously.

• Exceptional communication, presentation, and collaboration abilities.

• Experience in mentoring designers and junior art directors.

• Highly organized with outstanding project management skills.

• A passion for fashion, photography, art, interiors, architecture, design, and culture.

• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, as well as Figma and presentation tools.

• Experience with After Effects and other creative applications to enhance motion, video, and digital-first content.

• Background in art directing motion, video, and digital-first creative for social media, editorial, and integrated marketing campaigns.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment at a company undergoing growth and transformation.

• Access to rewarding career advancement opportunities across the largest multi-brand luxury retailer, from retail to distribution, digital, and corporate roles.

• Comprehensive benefits package available for all eligible full-time employees, including medical, vision, and dental coverage.

• Generous employee discount.

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Basic life insurance.

• Supplemental life insurance.

• Disability insurance.

• Additional voluntary benefits such as critical illness, hospital, and accident insurance.

• Reasonable accommodations provided for applicants with disabilities.