Art Director

Working directly with our Senior Art Director and Creative Director, the Art Director will be responsible for guiding the creative visual and graphic design direction across all visual communication touch points, ensuring that design assets align with the brand’s identity, strategy, and goals. Working closely with marketing, web, and product teams, the Art Director will focus on executing high-quality graphic designs that reflect the brand's identity & narrative while achieving the business' commercial goals. They will also supervise day-to-day graphic design project workflows and provide mentorship to junior team members to achieve optimal design results.

The Art Director will primarily design for the Ads, Web, and Retention Marketing functions of the Marketing Department, while still supporting on overall design direction across the various customer touchpoints such as branding, packaging, social media, PR, and physical activations that we plan for in the future.

**What You'll Do**:
**Creative Strategy and Execution**
- Support in the ideation and execution of creative concepts, and campaign execution strategy, and key visuals that align with brand objectives.
- Ensure that all visual communications resonate across digital, social, and print platforms while maintaining consistency with the overall brand identity.
- Implement and enforce brand guidelines across all media channels to ensure a cohesive brand presence.
- Continuously seek opportunities to incorporate new data, insights, and industry best practices to keep the Ask & Embla brand relevant and visually appealing.

**Collaboration & Team Coordination**
- Collaborate with Marketing, Web, and Product teams to ensure that design assets, collateral, and marketing materials are delivered on time and in line with project goals.
- Align creative direction with broader marketing and business strategies.
- Present and communicate creative concepts and project progress to internal stakeholders, gathering feedback to fine-tune the creative direction and ensure alignment with business objectives.

**Project Management & Workflow**
- Oversee the day-to-day execution of creative projects, ensuring all deliverables are met according to timeline, budget, and scope.
- Maintain high standards of design quality and consistency across all outputs.
- Manage the creative team’s workload, assigning tasks and setting priorities to ensure deadlines are met while balancing the team’s capacity.
- Monitor project progress and adapt plans to address challenges or changes in scope.

**Team Leadership & Development**
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior designers, helping them improve their skills and contribute effectively to the team.
- Identify opportunities to streamline processes within the creative team, optimizing workflows to increase efficiency while maintaining high-quality outputs.

**Who You Are**:

- Minimum of 5 years of proven experience in an Art Director or senior graphic designer role, ideally within a fast-paced e-commerce, fashion, or lifestyle brand environment.
- Demonstrated success in guiding visual and graphic design direction across digital ads, web, and retention marketing.
- Experience supervising graphic design workflows and mentoring junior team members.
- High proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
- Familiarity with motion graphics and video editing software (e.g., After Effects, Premiere Pro) is a plus.
- A keen eye for aesthetics, detail, and current design trends.
- Ability to integrate data and insights to optimize design solutions.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills to articulate creative concepts and provide constructive feedback.
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams (Marketing, Web, Product).
- Strong project management skills; able to oversee daily creative project execution, manage workloads, and ensure timely, high-quality deliverables.

**Who We Are**:
Ask & Embla is a rapidly growing Alternative Body Jewelry brand based in Singapore with a collective following of more than 500,000 across our social media channels. As an E-commerce brand, we ship internationally to a diverse range of customers and we are proud to be one of the leading brands worldwide in the alternative jewelry space.

At Ask & Embla, we’re passionate about creating a company that brings out the best in everyone and where individuals love to work and grow as a team. That means constantly learning and building new things, being flexible about how and where we work, and empowering each other to do the proudest work of our lives.

Ask & Embla, led by an ex-Googler and ex-Amazonian, has dozens of employees across multiple countries. We are building the foundation to expand several business verticals beyond e-commerce, while supporting existing business functions for fulfilling thousands of orders each month.

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