Senior Digital Art Director

At Armadillo, we harness the power of data to change consumer behaviour and deliver unrivalled ROI. And we do this with some of the world’s biggest brands, including Disney, McDonald’s, P&O Cruises and Cunard, producing beautifully creative and effective CRM campaigns.

The Senior Digital Art Director will work within our Creative and CX team.

Responsibilities

UX planning skills

• Influence strategic goals
• Influence data use and data goals
• Create excellent cross-channel user journeys
• Create excellent wireframes
  
  

Conceptual creativity

• Create excellent concepts that will meet/exceed project engagement goals
• Be able to translate concepts across a comms journey to an excellent level
• Be able to communicate ideas quickly using sketches
  
  

Digital Design Skills

• Demonstrate an excellent understanding of how brands behave, whether implementing or evolving style guides
• Demonstrate expert design skills in layout, typography and image creation/manipulation (vector based illustrations or photographic manipulation)
• Create expert responsive design solutions
• Demonstrate expert innovative user interface design solution
• Create expert engaging and measurable interactivity
• Bring content to life with excellent animations (storyboard & output)
• Be able to check work for accuracy and prepare it for asset release
  
  

Presentation And Communication Skills

• Present excellent clear goal-focused rationales for your solutions
• Create excellent presentation documents
• Ensure campaign styles can be understood and rolled out by other creatives
• Update key stakeholders on status
• Proactively collaborate with Strategy/Data/Dev/Copywriters/Client Services
  
  

Leadership

• Lead the creative output of your projects
• Be decisive under pressure
• Support recruitment of the creative team
• Support work allocation with client services
• Actively share knowledge of your discipline through the agency - helping other teams understand what you and your team do
• Support the promotion of the agency through our marketing and PR partners (blogs, articles etc.)
• Support new business opportunities to support the growth of the agency
  
  

Role Software Skills

• Excellent Adobe CC - Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, XD and After Effects
  
  

Requirements

• 5+ years' industry experience
• Agency experience is required, ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Experience working on global clients
  
  

Industry knowledge

• CRM channels - email, web, push, app (behaviour & technical)
• CRM principles - affinity, loyalty etc.
• Design and communications industry trends
  
  

Internal process and procedures

• Follow company process & procedures as outlined in our company handbook (IT policies chain of command, sickness notification etc.)
• Complete personal administration (timesheets, expenses etc.) accurately and in the stated timeframe
  
  

Software Skills

• Proficient Microsoft - Word, PPT & Excel as well as Google equivalent
• Project management software - Harvest, Trello, Forecast
  
  

Benefits

• Hybrid environment – 3 days in our central Bristol office / 2 days remote
• 33 days’ annual leave (inc. bank holidays), plus a day off on your birthday
• Summer and Christmas hours – finish 2.5 hours early one Friday per month in June, July, August and December
• Contributory company pension 4% employee 3% employer of total pay through salary sacrifice
• Lots of social events, including Summer and Christmas parties
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme offered by Assured Health
• IPA Membership
• Bristol Creative Industries Membership
  
  

Equal opportunities

Armadillo is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability or age.