Senior Art Director

At HLK, Senior Designers bring ideas to life with craft, precision, and a deep love for design. In this role you’ll deliver outstanding design systems, visual identities, and executional excellence across mediums. You’ll work closely with Creative Directors, Art Directors, and Copywriters to make sure every detail — from typography to layout, across motion and technology — meets the highest standard.

You’ll also influence art directions and production artists, ensuring consistency and elevating the design culture at HLK.

If you’re someone who: loves building cohesive design systems across channels, thrives on details, craft, and precision, thinks deeply about the why behind every choice, is collaborative and eager to share your expertise with others, is curious about new media and actively seeks new tools, takes pride in delivering polished, final work that drives brand impact.

This is the place for you.

• Design across mediums including print, digital, social, motion, and branding
• Translate concepts into polished, strategically aligned designs
• Develop and maintain brand identity systems and ensure consistency across executions
• Provide design mentorship to junior designers and studio team members
• Partner with Creative Directors and Copywriters to ensure alignment of visuals with ideas
• Apply deep knowledge of typography, layout, color, and composition to create impactful work
• Collaborate with production teams to ensure flawless final deliverables
• Bring a high level of design craft to presentations and client-facing materials
• Stay current on design trends, tools, and technologies to keep HLK’s work sharp
• Maintain a strong point of view on the work and push for brave, unexpected solutions

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
• Industries: Advertising Services
• Location: St Louis, MO
• Salary: $60,000.00 – $85,000.00