Senior Art Director

San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland OR, Austin TX

Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients.

We are hiring Senior Art Directors to join our team designing end-to-end digital website projects for one of our largest clients, a Bay Area based creative tech company. In this embedded role, you’ll partner with our internal Creative and Production teams, and the client, to design best-in-class digital experiences and solutions. If the term conceptual digital design and detailed execution resonates, then this role may be for you.

These roles require team members to be onsite 5 days per week, for 2-3 months at a time, for specific projects. At other times during the year, the team is remote.

Candidates should have:

• Hands-on experience in digital design and art direction, leading projects and initiatives, and consistently delivering pixel perfect designs, while innovating work across a variety of industries
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional partners, including design, copy, motion, production, and account partners, and some experience mentoring more junior team members
• Strong client collaboration and management skills, with a proven ability to present and defend design strategies to senior-level clients and stakeholders
• Mastery in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Keynote, proficiency in Figma and ideally Sketch, additional motion and prototyping software is a plus, with the ability to evaluate and recommend new technologies
• While not required, bonus if you have experience both in-house and with creative agencies

We’d like to know that you can:

• Drive the creation of distinctive, forward-thinking, on-brand digital design solutions—consistently exceeding project goals and setting new creative benchmarks
• Confidently communicate and present complex design concepts and digital interactions to both internal teams and senior client audiences
• Proactively stay ahead of emerging design practices and technologies, identifying and integrating industry trends to elevate both design quality and user experience across projects
• Champion and refine agile design processes, establishing best practices and raising the bar for design standards throughout the organization
• Serve as both a collaborative team lead, and a highly proactive individual contributor, inspiring others through example and initiative
• Actively solicit, interpret, and integrate feedback from diverse sources, leveraging it to enhance design outcomes and mentor less experienced designers

The target range of base compensation for this role is $140k - $170k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.

At Kettle, we care deeply about diversity, acceptance, and belonging across our offices. With effort placed on to creating dialogue, community, and expression outside of binaries, we would love to know how you prefer to be addressed. This is completely optional, but if you're comfortable sharing this information, please let us know your pronouns.