Sr. Art Director - Photography, Ann Sacks req

Sr. Art Director - Photography, Ann Sacks

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Onsite

Onsite, four days per week - Portland,OR

For over four decades, Ann Sacks has been synonymous with timeless design, craftsmanship, and innovation in tile and stone. What began in Portland, Oregon as a simple venture into tile has grown into a luxury design brand offering tile, slabs, stone furniture, fireplaces, baths, and home accessories.

Ann Sacks has partnered with influential designers, architects, and builders to create spaces that are distinctive, personal, and enduring. Joining Ann Sacks means joining a team that values creativity, entrepreneurship, and beauty.

As part of Kohler Co., Ann Sacks combines the creativity of a design-led luxury brand with the strength, resources, and stability of a global organization. Across our support office, manufacturing teams, and showrooms, wemaintainasmall business feel with a national footprint.

The Art Director-Photography defines, owns, and elevates the photographic identity of Ann Sacks’ growing direct-to-consumer tile brand. This role is the steward of our photographic expression across every customer touchpoint, from product pages and lifestyle photography to campaigns, social media, email, PR, advertising, retail, and sales materials.

Equal parts tastemaker, creative strategist, and production leader, the ideal candidate has exceptional design sensibility, deep knowledge of interior design, and a strong understanding of how compelling creative drives both brand affinity and eCommerce performance. They have experience building premium lifestyle brands, understand how customers engage with image-based content across channels, and know how to create imagery that is both aspirational and commercially effective.

And they know how to run and lead photo shoots, as well as post-production.

This role will establish and evolve our premium aesthetic, lead all photography, and render direction, and ensure every visual asset consistently reflects our brand while supporting business objectives.

• Own the brand's photographic and image-based visual expression across all channels, ensuring a cohesive, premium aesthetic at every customer touchpoint.
• Define, document, and continually evolve the brand's visual identity, photography standards, styling principles, and creative style guides.
• Develop seasonal creative concepts and campaign visual direction that support both brand and commercial objectives.
• Create creative briefs that translate marketing, merchandising, and product strategies into compelling visual storytelling.
• Lead creative reviews and approvals for photography, rendered imagery, and related visual assets, ensuring alignment with brand standards.
• Serve as the creative authority for photography and visual storytelling, balancing brand consistency with channel-specific needs.

• Lead all lifestyle photography productions from concept through final delivery.
• Own shoot planning, budgets, timelines, logistics, locations, shot lists, casting, and production schedules.
• Art direct photographers, stylists, prop stylists, hair and makeup artists, and production teams during shoots.
• Oversee product detail (PDP) photography, ensuring imagery accurately represents products while supporting conversion and maintaining a consistent visual standard.
• Art directs CGI and render production, partnering with external render vendors to achieve realistic, premium imagery.
• Guide image selection, editing, retouching, color correction, and final asset approvals.

• Build and manage relationships with photographers, stylists, agencies, freelance creatives, and render partners.
• Negotiate and manage photography licensing agreements, usage rights, and renewals.
• Oversee the organization's Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, ensuring assets are properly tagged, organized, versioned, and easily accessible.
• Develop scalable workflows for asset management, approvals, and distribution across teams.

• Partner closely with Marketing, Merchandising, Product Development, and PR teams to develop content that supports launches, campaigns, and ongoing business priorities.
• Collaborate on seasonal content planning and marketing calendars.
• Balance creative excellence with business objectives, timelines, and budgets.

Ensure imagery supports the unique needs of every channel, including:

• eCommerce product pages (PDPs)
• Website and…