Art Director

Maiden Home is growing a team of forward-thinking individuals who possess unique strengths and perspectives, an innate ability to inspire their colleagues, and an eagerness to reimagine the world of luxury furnishings.

As our Art Director, you will be responsible for ideating and creating world class creative deliverables for our brand. A successful candidate is a talented hands on Art Director with a history of developing strong brand affinity through visual creative. In this role, you’ll translate brand strategy and business goals into compelling visual stories. You’re equal parts conceptual thinker and hands-on maker: comfortable pitching big ideas, refining details, and collaborating across teams to bring campaigns to life.

This is a unique opportunity to join a brand that is primed for its next stage of growth–with a proven competitive advantage in its ability to attract, motivate and retain top talent across a range of disciplines. At Maiden Home, you’ll find a workspace that encourages innovation, creative expression, and teamwork, and your experience will be shaped by your performance, contributions, and drive. 

This role is located at our New York headquarters, located in the TriBeCa design district. 

Responsibilities

• Serve as the brand’s Art Director, creating strong visual design for relevant campaign and photoshoot work across all integrated marketing channels, including Site (landing pages), Growth (emails, brand advertising), Retail, and more.
• Oversee the visual development of assets, including ads, social media content, web pages, email, packaging, presentations, and print collateral.
• Provide clear, constructive feedback to designers and production partners to refine work and maintain high creative standards.
• Ensure all creative output is on-brand, consistent in quality and tone, and optimized for each channel and format.
• Create campaign and photoshoot concepts that go beyond the obvious – they sell Maiden Home creatively, trying to activate a client emotionally, rather than just logically.
• Oversee photoshoots, video shoots, and other production efforts: from pre-production planning and shot lists to on-set direction.
• Help define and evolve visual identity systems, including guidelines, templates, and design standards.
• Collaborate with Creative, Marketing, and E-Commerce teams to ideate and create impactful campaigns, print and digital content, and creative assets that reflect Maiden Home’s brand strategy, positioning, and business goals. 
• Stay informed on design trends, tools, and best practices, and bring fresh inspiration to the team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience consisting of the following: (1) Multiple years as an IC Designer, (2) Multiple years executing high quality photoshoots as an Art Director side by side with photographers other visual Designers and (3) Multiple years building landing pages, ads, and other assets in-house at a Design oriented company.
• Brilliant portfolio of Art Direction in a luxury goods, fashion, and/or direct-to-consumer advertising context. This is your craft and you take it seriously – always looking for ways to practice, improve, and learn.  
• Experience working closely with a Founder & CEO and translating their company vision and strategy into a clear creative vision and set of creative outputs.
• Experienced creative generalist with a sophisticated understanding of web and graphic design, fluency with copy, photographer, and video.
• You thrive in situations with ambiguity and complexity and like to iterate to achieve the best outcomes.

• Substantial experience supporting the creative needs of Brand Marketing, Growth Marketing, and E-Commerce. 
• Leadership traits of being flexible, enterprising and collaborative and is highly tolerant of ambiguity, complexity and occasional lack of existing processes or structure in an early stage start-up environment

About Maiden Home

Maiden Home is an authority in the world of luxury home furnishings. The brand designs original pieces at its New York studio, sources exquisite materials from trusted partners around the world, and works directly with distinguished artisans to bring them to life—then, it delivers them with prices and lead times that are unheard of in the furniture industry.

Maiden Home’s unwavering commitment to exceptional design and quality is praised by leading interior designers and publications including Architectural Digest and Elle Decor, and it has brought the brand consistent year over year growth.

Maiden Home is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics