Art Director Marketing​/Communications

Art Director – (Marketing/Communications)

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• Job Type: Contract , Contract-W2 , Corp-To-Corp

We are looking for Art Director for our client in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This is an ONE YEAR contract with the possibility of extension.
*** Position is ON-SITE
*** We are looking for an Art Director who will bring our creative strategies and concepts to life throughout various mediums across our global brands. In this role, you will collaborate closely with Brand Managers, Social Media Leads, Creative Project Managers, the Creative Solutions team and external agencies and creative partners to build our client’s brands and help attract customers.

In this role, you will use your strong design background to apply brand strategy and standards as well as design principles and best practices to holistic brand and product launch campaigns across mediums including web, social media, video, print, etc. You will have the opportunity to develop creative concepts that deliver on brand and campaign strategies, provide clear and actionable art direction to agencies, graphic artists and other creative partners across projects and on set productions;

and to design and execute specific creative elements as needed. This role will provide broad exposure to a fun, fast paced, varied, collaborative, global environment and opportunity for growth and development.

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree with focus in Fine Arts, Graphic Design or similar field of study
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in art direction, design or similar field
• A strong portfolio of professional content, with individual contributions clearly attributed to each project.
• Demonstrated experience working with holistic campaigns from concept to execution
• Strong experience in digital mediums, especially social media – channels, content trends and best practices, social campaigns, etc.
• Excellent working knowledge of applied principles of graphic design, including color, composition and typography.
• Ability to solve complex problems as they relate to visual design.
• Skilled in Adobe Creative Suite. Must have expert knowledge in:
  Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Microsoft Power Point
• Experience in animation software:
  Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro
• Experience with motion storytelling skills and social media content creation

COMPANY SUMMARYInitech Global is a leader in the staffing industry, providing consulting, recruiting, and staffing solutions in the field of information technology. Since 2001, Initech Global has been helping companies around the world accomplish their most critical business objectives through our disciplined client service approach, and our unique talent management model. Both client and talent retention continue to surpass 90% since the company’s inception fifteen years ago, and we’ve been recognized by Inc.

5000 as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the US for the last two years. Our clients and employees are the key to our success, and people are at the heart of everything we do. We are Initech Global, and we are Powered By People.

Graphic Design, Adobe Creative Suite, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Social Media content creation, art direction