Senior Art Director
Full TimeJob Overview
About Us
Gravity Global is the world’s most awarded marketing consultancy specialising in brands operating in complex markets. Led by strategy, innovation, technology, data, and creativity, we create brand-and-demand marketing programmes that drive transformational growth for our clients.
Gravity Global is the world’s most awarded marketing consultancy specialising in brands operating in complex markets. Led by strategy, innovation, technology, data, and creativity, we create brand-and-demand marketing programmes that drive transformational growth for our clients.
With 14 wholly owned offices across the US, Europe and APAC, and our Global Talent Hubs in emerging markets, you can build a truly global career in a rapidly scaling organisation that’s shaping the future of marketing.
At Gravity Global, we believe our people are our greatest strength. We’re a collective of creative thinkers, strategic storytellers, and data-driven innovators united by one mission – to deliver exceptional work that makes an impact. We’re growing fast – across continents and disciplines – and we’re looking for passionate individuals who want to make a difference: for our clients, our teams, and the world around us.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior Creative Art Director who can bring big conceptual ideas and powerful visual storytelling to complex, fascinating brands. You’ll turn deep insights, data and sometimes highly technical products or services into compelling visual narratives – creating work that connects hearts and minds while staying grounded in accuracy, clarity and strategic insight.
Key Responsibilities
- Devise and develop powerful, original ideas that engage the target audience and address the client’s business problem for primarily a B2B audience but also B2C clients - across multiple platforms.
- Lead concept development and visual direction across integrated campaigns, digital, social, film, and print
- Use the latest AI techniques to bring ideas to life across integrated campaigns, digital, social, film.
- Understand the client’s business and communications challenge, the key proposition, and the creative brief – then translate this into distinctive, effective creative ideas
- Shape and maintain the visual tone of voice and creative standards across all brand touchpoints
- Present ideas to the Creative Director and wider team for approval and development, and partner closely with copywriters through multiple stages of concepts and execution
- Collaborate with strategists, designers, account teams and subject‑matter experts to make complex information feel clear, compelling and visually engaging
- Generate, maintain and build enthusiasm for ideas within the agency (and with clients in more client-facing art director roles) as work moves from concept to execution
- Push the creative ambition while ensuring work remains on brand, credible and compliant with any relevant regulations
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
You will have;
- A savvy B2B and B2C mindset with at least 6+ years’ proven experience as an Art Director or Senior Art Director in a marketing/advertising agency environment
- A true creative thinker with an ideas-driven mindset and genuine interest in all things design and visual culture
- Awareness and proven understanding of the latest AI tools and show an understanding of the advantages they hold within the creative process
- A strong portfolio showing truly integrated campaigns, experiential genius and outstanding visual ideas for major brands (B2B and/or B2C; experience with complex or technical sectors is a plus)
- Proven experience working within the parameters of corporate branding guidelines while still pushing for fresh, distinctive creative solutions.
Able to work efficiently with photographers and directors. - The confidence to defend bold thinking – and the humility to listen, adapt and take feedback on board
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign; motion/design tools a plus)
- The ability to apply creative thinking to real business problems,
turning insights and data into powerful visual concepts - Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to “sell” ideas in an inspirational, confident and clear way
- Sharp creative instincts, solid craft and a collaborative spirit
- A team-first mindset: you enjoy working collaboratively as part of a creative team (with copywriters, designers, strategists and others), and can operate effectively under pressure and to tight deadlines.