Art Director

Best in class delivery for identified clients

• Conceive & implement concepts, guidelines & strategies in various creative projects & oversee them to completion
• Understand the clients KPIs and produce detailed & holistic creative work. 
• Develop relationships with clients to ensure service and delivery expectations are being met.
• Regularly communicate with regional/global counterparts to create synergy in campaign strategy and approach.

Thought Leadership

• Collaborate with account managers to obtain knowledge of the clients’ requirements.
• Conduct training/deliver presentations on NNC’s creative thinking & work for internal teams & clients.
• Provide project management, professional development, and department growth opportunities.
• Give updates on the progress of each project and stage of their development and creation phase to executive creative leadership
• Provide guidance and leadership to a team of designers and/or creative professionals

Account Management

• Anticipate the client’s needs and set up internal process to meet / exceed them
• Lead brainstorming/creative sessions to generate ideas
• Pitch ideas confidently and present their creative vision clearly to clients, as well as communicate in the same manner to members of their creative team.

Operating and Technical Requirements

• Revise content and presentations, approve/reject ideas, provide feedback to the team
• Monitor results of team efforts and propose actions for the future
• Supervise department's daily workflow, assign project workloads, and monitor deadlines and budgets.
• Take responsibility of the creative philosophy & standard of output across the agency or department
• Collaborate with account executives to obtain knowledge of the clients’ requirements
• Direct multiple projects, advertising & social media campaigns, commercial films and 360 campaigns.

People Management

• Direct & motivating art directors, illustrators, copywriters, etc teams to utilize their talents effectively
• Build an environment for the creative team to work in and oversee their ideas and projects
• Train and guide subordinates into accomplished professionals

Other Areas

• Take hands-on approach to role, with necessary digital platform expertise to quality control or troubleshoot issues around set up or tracking where necessary
• Stay on top of new industry developments & readily suggest new technology and/or beta tests to clients.
• Meet regularly with creative teams to keep them up to date with the latest trends.