Open Partners
Creative Art Director
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Location: Remote First
Type: Full-Time (5 days per week)
The Opportunity
Are you a visionary creative who can shape high-impact visual narratives and lead teams to deliver premium, scalable design? Open Partners is looking for a Creative Art Director to drive the visual direction for our most critical client portfolios. Working in tandem with our Creative Copywriter, CD, and Strategy team, you will push impactful ideas and lead creative vision across multidisciplinary teams. You will build brands through excellent conceptual thinking, seamlessly blending motion and static expertise to establish rigorous visual guardianship while designing the master creative templates that allow our studio to scale rapidly without compromising on aesthetic quality.
Your Role & Responsibilities
- Conceptual Thinking & Narrative Ownership: Partner with the Creative Copywriter and Strategy team to establish strong brand platforms and key visuals that anchor a client's brand equity.
- Visual Architecture & Design Leadership: Lead the visual development of major campaign briefs, applying expert-level colour theory, typography, and imagery styling.
- Collaborative Campaign Delivery: Guide concepts smoothly through to completion, working closely with the wider Creative team to delegate tasks effectively based on individual skill sets.
- Dynamic Template Engineering: Configure modular master design templates within the Studio to facilitate rapid variant testing and iteration.
- Enforce the Rule of Three: Ensure all approved master concepts are structurally designed from the outset to scale natively across vertical, square, and horizontal platform safe zones.
- Direct the AI-First Design Squad: Guide designers and motion operators to leverage advanced AI approaches across design and video to rapidly prototype and render high-fidelity assets.
- Visual Quality Assurance: Implement strict high-fidelity upscaling standards and thorough review loops to produce outputs of the absolute highest quality.
- Streamlined Sign-Off Workflows: Make use of centralised collaborative tools like Ziflow and ClickUp to automate internal review loops and prevent approval bottlenecks.
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What Success Looks Like in 6 Months
- Trusted Partnerships: You have built trusted client relationships, establishing yourself as a knowledgeable partner in visual identity systems.
- Centralised Operations: You have created a consistent operational system for your design templates and component libraries.
- Co-Intelligent Output: Your team is operating co-intelligently with a blended Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence workforce, navigating creative technologies smoothly.
- Distributed Template Workflows: You have successfully implemented template workflows that use master guidelines to direct execution streams with maximum efficiency.
What You’ll Bring
- Macro Creative Direction: Master-level capability in establishing premium visual identity systems, typography, and motion design frameworks.
- Full-Service Thinking: The ability to apply deep visual expertise across platforms, using strategic insights and media understanding to drive impact.
- AI Fluency: A deep, practical understanding of how to configure, deploy, and audit generative AI design and automated layout software consistently.
- Systems-Thinking & Asset Organisation: A systems-focused mindset with a proven reputation for organising studio libraries for seamless cross-functional delivery.
- Persuasive Communication: Strong communication skills, giving you the confidence and skill to pitch big ideas to senior clients and internal executive teams with clarity and persuasion.
- Proven Industry Experience: 6+ years of experience with a track record of directing premium visual campaigns across paid, organic, and digital products.
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Our Values & Mindset
At Open Partners, we hire mindset first. It is the single biggest factor of success in our business, and we believe you can grow that mindset in any walk of life and career background. If you do not have direct industry experience but possess a fierce growth mindset and transferable creative skills, we want to hear from you. We hold ourselves to three simple standards:
- Smarter: Aim high, train hard, embrace next.
- Faster: Learn fast, adapt fast, act fast.
- Better: Think, say, and do what is best.
Ready to elevate your creative career? Apply today!
Open Partners was founded in 2017 to be The Agency of Next. Designed to be constantly focussed on the future, we think ahead for our clients, quickly pivoting them to new areas of opportunity as they arise. Delivering marketing transformations for over 50 clients, Open Partners’ integrated Media, Data and Creative capabilities drive more accountable and effective returns for international performance advertisers. We strive to always be smarter, faster, and better - all the while upholding the very highest standards of commercial and operational integrity.
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