11+ Art director Jobs in India

To meet the growing demand for TMRW editorial and marketing teams, we are looking for exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you have strong shoot production and art direction experience and a diverse shoot portfolio in the fashion industry, we’d like to speak with you. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is an entrepreneurial-minded candidate, wants to work in a start-up like environment, has 10+ years of work experience in working with art leads and studios, and help produce best-in-class shoots (catalogue and campaign and still and video). This person will serve as a key partner between TMRW’s content & creative leads, production houses and agencies, and talent like photographers, models, hair and make-up and stylists as well as the brands we own.

As Creative Producer, your primary responsibility will be to lead, schedule and execute still and video (including prep, PPMs, reviews, walk throughs, fittings) for all our brands across all assets (including social media, catalogue, campaign, digital platforms and e-commerce). The candidate should be well connected within the industry, have significant development / production experience and contacts and a strong understanding of production costs. Must have deep relationships with the Indian talent – photographers, models, hair and make-up artists, videographers, script writers and the wider creative community and hands-on experience with contracts and legal issues related to shooting. You will be actively developing shoot rosters and styling guidelines, booking top talent at best prices, handling contracts of crew, schedules, playbooks for shoots, mood boards for each brand and working closely with marketing, content, graphic design, fashion design and brand teams to execute these. You will be the lead POC for all shoots – including liaising with talent, agencies, legal and shoot operations team.

Hustle, negotiation skills and need for speed and ability to scale are essential to the role - and with this mindset you will handle end-to-end shoot strategy for up and coming fashion and style brands, networking, planning and conceptualising shoots as well as setting up a closet for stylists, prop closet, shoots processes and annual roadmaps. You will be the owner of shoot timelines, daily/monthly schedules, help overcome obstacles, make difficult trade-off decisions, and balance business needs and creative constraints. Experience in leading a production house/ team, indoor-outdoor shoot planning, ability to negotiate and budget handling, relevant industry contacts are required for this role.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

-8+ years of experience in production and shoot management, especially fashion shoots

-Experience defining daily shoot requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements

-Diverse portfolio of shoots – across indoor, outdoor, model and product, static, and video.

-A proven track record of developing successful shoots an independent producer, or in a studio or as part of a customer-facing media company.

-Strong understanding of break-up of production costs and ability to negotiate.

-Strong interest and knowledge about fashion, future trends in production and tech innovation

-Excellent relationship management, communication, and organizational skills

-Ability to adapt to a quickly changing, fast-paced environment - Strong working relationships with the Indian creative community.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

-An educational background in fashion-related fields

-Ability to succeed amidst ambiguity

-Leveraging skills to invent, improve, and scale

-Proven ability to analyze license and legal agreements in high-pressure environments

-High attention to detail, comfortable with hands-on management of tasks

-Proven ability to meet tight deadlines, multi-task, and prioritize workload

-Adept at working with different formats of shoots and making recommendations on improvements for both shoots and processes

-Ability to plan ahead and maintain trackers

• Experience of working with any reputed Advertising agency or design studio
• Possession of creative flair, versatility, conceptual/visual ability and originality
• Demonstrable graphic design skills with a good portfolio
• Ability to interact, communicate and present ideas
• Up to date with industry leading software and technologies
• Professionalism regarding time, costs and deadlines
• Good esthetic sense, style and exposure to outer world is expected
• Able to make artworks & print files

ABOUT US

White.Inc is a house of digitally native brands (DNBs) that is creating Instagram-first DTC brands across verticals like Cookware, Houseplants, Drinkware, Apple Gear and Luggage. We believe that to lead a better life in today's ever-changing world, we need products that are constantly evolving and contribute to our busy lives. To bring to life such

category disrupting brands, we have partnered with the world’s leading product design company to create products that are crave-worthy and address the needs of a new generation of Indian consumers.

Started by people with a decade+ experience in the e-commerce and D2C sectors, the founders have developed 2000+ products across multiple categories and scaled global brands in India such as RhinoShield & PopSockets. Leveraging on their expertise in driving growth, product development, supply chain, technology and access to global markets, White Inc is poised to deliver products that inspire and excite our consumer base.

We are rapidly growing and looking for someone as excited as us to be a part of this growth journey. If you love start-ups, a fast-paced environment with lots of action and the opportunity to create India's new-gen disruptive brands, then click away and get set to propel your career to greater heights.

We are looking for a senior art director to concept and execute creative campaigns that blend storytelling and visual innovation.

THE ROLE

As a Senior Art Director, you would be an integral part of the design team. You would be responsible for what all our online and offline advertising output looks like. This role requires much more than just a creative vision and artistic experience. To be successful in this role, you would need to possess strong leadership ability and work collaboratively across departments to strategize, manage, and execute your vision. Your focus will be on timelines, budgets and strategic resource planning, as well as the day-to-day operations of the department. You would need to be a leader, a creative mind and a project manager all in one. If this sounds like you, then go ahead and apply (portfolio to be included in the application)

RESPONSIBILITIES

▪ Work independently to develop design concepts and directions for marketing materials, campaigns and multiple projects. Create layouts, mockups and the like to illustrate design ideas to the rest of the team.

▪ Partner with copywriters to advance ideas, develop campaigns and deliver both a unique visual look and a strong “voice” to every execution

▪ Drive and enhance the visual look, tone and feel of all of the work produced. Help shape the visual expression of the various brands under the White Inc umbrella

▪ Execution and on-time delivery of high-quality creative materials for brands across luggage, drinkware, cookware, apple gear and houseplants sectors

▪ Work on designs to produce effective advertising campaigns ensuring that budgets are kept into consideration during the design process

▪ Commission specialists, such as artists and photographers, to work on projects. Provide direction, as required, on photo and video shoots.

▪ Work across mediums such as offline advertising, social media and online marketing

SKILLS

▪ Ability to communicate, present and influence key stakeholders at all levels of an organization.

▪ Full awareness of creative processes and techniques – including digital platforms

▪ Strong interpersonal and communication skills to be able to manage clients and vendors with finesse under a high-pressure environment

▪ Ability to juggle multiple account management projects at a time, while maintaining sharp attention to detail

▪ Energy, enthusiasm and the ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines and demanding targets.

▪ Excellent listening, negotiation and presentation abilities

▪ Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and within a team

▪ Lead and participate in brainstorming sessions to generate ideas

QUALIFICATION

▪ Minimum 5-7 years at an Advertising agency or any design house

▪ Proven ability to concept and produce strategically–focused, multi-media content campaigns that produce results

▪ Experience with working on iOS / Apple operating system.

▪ Proficient at Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and other design tools.

▪ Working knowledge of Microsoft Office.

Designation: Art Director

Department: Brand Marketing

Location: Bangalore

Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, art, or similar discipline

Experience: 4+ years of relevant experience in creative roles at Ad agency, with an understanding of creative development and production.

Responsibilities:

1. Collaborate, brainstorm, and strategize with teams for a wide range of materials – be in ATL, BTL, internal, corporate or brand communication
2. Translate strategic direction into high-quality design within an established brand identity
3. Develop concepts by hand or with software, and execute original content determining ideal usage of colour, text, font style, imagery, and layout
4. Use trend intelligence and an understanding of the current and historical business and market to design and execute specific classifications
5. Develop innovative marketing experiences that help tell meaningful stories, which connect to users and communities to drive awareness and viewership of the brand.
6. Graphic and Layout design, End to End development of the set.
7. Create tailored content and conversations across each channel for total ecosystem engagement.
8. Effectively build and manage relationships with internal stakeholders, as well as talent.
9. Read, review and design content to identify the right content for videos.
10. Supervise projects, timelines and manage deadlines

Skills:  

1. Exceptional creativity and innovative design skills
2. Experience with design software, including Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, etc.
3. Proven experience with graphic design, with a strong portfolio of work
4. Excellent communication and presentation skills
5. Organizational and time-management skills for meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment
6. Hands-on knowledge in creative skills like content, layout design, graphic design,
7. Excellent verbal and written skills and confident communication skills..

Salary: Upto 12LPA (Negotiable)

IMMEDIATE JOINING PREFERRED!

Title: Art Producer/Senior Art Producer

Main responsibilities:

• Manage the art production of incredibly compelling, high-quality smartphone games.
• Plan and oversee the 2D, 3D, UI, and Technical Art planning using project planning tools like Google or MS Excel sheet.
• Follow the delivery plan and coordinate with art, art leads, design, product, and engineering for deliveries.
• Initiate and track all production processes through art stand up meetings, scrum, or similar approach.
• Ensure timely delivery of art milestones while safeguarding the quality of artwork in accordance with the pre-defined art production schedule.
• Work with art leads and art directors to evaluate and sign-up new outsourcing art and sound vendors.
• Work with vendors to finalize the vendor delivery plan and co-ordinate with vendors for timely deliveries.
• Work with project stakeholders to get their feedback on assets delivered by the vendors, communicate back to the vendors, and get the updated asset deliveries.
• Contribute to improving the quality of our games, the productivity of our art teams, and the efficiency of our art processes.

 Profile / Requirements

• 5-15 years of overall experience in managing Art Production. Min 3 years of relevant experience.
• Candidate must have worked on and have shipped at least 1 game on Play Store or App Store (preferred).
• Must haveexperience in games developed in the Unity game engine.
• Must have experience of working with frontend Unity developers and technical artists, product managers, and game designers.
• Experience in tools like Jira, Slack, Asana, Trello, Monday, Google docs, and Google sheets.
• Experience with asset management tools like AlienBrain or any similar software.
• Extremely strong project management skills and good at planning in all situations.
• Excellent knowledge of game art production pipelines.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, combining leadership and diplomacy.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups and
  prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
• Facilitate the client's product vision by researching, conceiving,
  sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products.
• Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and
  mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.
• Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to
  core, and new, functions and features.
• Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate
  your designs

• Bachelor of design / Master of design

• UX design experience.
• Expertise in standard UX software such as
  Sketch, Axure, InVision, UXPin and Zeplin.
• Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a
  plus.
• Ability to work with clients to understand
  detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client
  needs and vision.
• Extensive experience in using UX design standard
  methodologies to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and
  responsive design.
• A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD),
  planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid
  prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns.
• Ability to iterate designs and solutions
  efficiently and intelligently.
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate
  design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients.
• Ability to work effectively in a team setting
  including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications.
• Experience in UX/Product Design
• Teammate with great communication skills.
• You should be able to clearly articulate your
  design decisions and what problems they’re solving
• Strong understanding of UX fundamentals
• Exceptional design skills, production value and
  attention to detail
• Ability to create wireframes as well as visual
  design comps
• Understanding of common software development
  practices
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
  in English
• Skill in Adobe products (Photoshop and
  illustrator), and PowerPoint. Experience in Prototype applications is a plus.

• Bachelor/Diploma in Fine Arts or Multimedia Institution.
• Experience of 6+ years as Sr. Visualizer or Art Director in Creative/Ad Agency or Design Firm
• Hands-on experience in CorelDraw, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign.
• Able to understand the brief of the client & transform them into tangible designs.
• Visual thinker & Ideator, who can come up with concepts and ideas in a very creative and innovative manner.
• Experience in Print & Digital media
• Passed Commercial Art from a reputed institute
• Comfortable on both Windows and Mac.