Art Director

We are looking for a hands-on, creative Art Director with graphic design skills to join the Creative Team in Los Angeles. This role demands a high taste level and a strong connection to North American music and pop culture. You will be responsible for contributing innovative art direction and design across a broad range of executional mediums, from new media and digital environments to more traditional formats, ensuring the Serato brand is presented with creative excellence and attention to detail.

Key responsibilities:

• Brand & Creative Leadership
  • Work closely with the Creative Director to evolve the Serato brand's visual manifestation into a mature, iconic, and globally recognizable presence.
  • Incubate and execute concepts that transcend designed visual executions.
  • Source great photography and/or direct photographers.
  • Concept video and motion-based visual executions, and direct filmmaker and design maker partners.
• Art Direction & Design Execution
  • Contribute to the visual direction and design execution of Serato with an endlessly critical eye for detail.
  • Update and maintain the Serato brand guidelines documentation, ensuring correct implementation and helping to establish new design principles.
  • Keep up to date with current creative trends and recommend appropriate changes.
  • Apply a good working knowledge of social media ‘best practice' creative principles.
• Audio Visual Production
  • Conceive, storyboard, and direct motion graphics and audio visual communications (ads, content pieces) in close collaboration with the Creative Director.
  • Demonstrate a passion for pop-cultural content production and motion design.

Essential skills candidates will possess:

• Demonstrable art direction and graphic design skills with a strong portfolio.
• Proficiency as a finished artist.
• Proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite.
• Ability to ideate, concept, and execute visual media.
• Experience ideating and directing multi-media communications/campaigns in response to marketing strategies, with a focus on new media and digital environments.
• Ability to solve problems critically, creatively, and effectively.
• Knowledge and appreciation of a wide range of music.
• Ability and passion to learn emerging visual design technology, including AI and generative models, for use in the creative process.
• Freehand illustration and digital rendering skills would be highly advantageous to your application

We are looking for a candidate who is a creative, passionate, organized, and personable team player. The ideal person must be confident in expressing and articulating ideas and opinions effectively while demonstrating the judgment to read the room and contribute constructively.