Art Director (CheckMark)

We’re a leader in the pet care industry, which means we’re not only ahead in volume, profit and market share, but our associates dare to Stand Taller. We innovate new products, impart new agilities into existing processes, constantly advance pet nutrition, and always pay it forward in the form of service for our communities and families. Are you up for the dare?

CheckMark is where you’ll find the best of both worlds—the excitement and energy of ad agency life with the benefits of working for a leading corporation. Where else can you find career advancement, global exposure, and continuous training and development—all while flexing your creative and strategic muscles? It all happens right here.

As an Art Director at Purina, you are a multi-talented creative and strategic thinker who concepts, creates and produces high-quality work that is relevant to the brand and compelling to the target audience. You have solid design skills and are able to work successfully with a creative and account service team. All of this while enjoying a healthy work/life balance. So, if your full potential could be unleashed, how would you help communicate and positively affect top quality products for dogs and cats?

Primary Responsibilities
• Design print, promotion, collateral, in-store and advertising materials, from concept to final execution, based on client direction.

• Be able to create and execute digital content, e.g. social media, digital advertising, website assets and video.
• Contribute to package design efforts.
• Present ideas and designs credibly to internal team and to clients.
• Ability to collaborate successfully with other internal and external stakeholders such as creative leadership, account service, legal and clients.
• Ability to contribute to longer range client/agency goals relating to growth of the business.
• A positive, high energy and passion for creating original, compelling, solution-oriented work.
• Must be able to multitask effectively on different client brand assignments

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION YOU MUST INCLUDE IN YOUR RESUME AN ONLINE PORTFOLIO OF YOUR WORK.

Basic Requirements

• Associates Degree required.
• 2+ years of experience within an advertising/marketing agency or similar environment required.
• 1+ years of experience with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign is required.

Other

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
• 1+ years of experience with Interactive design like Adobe Premiere and After Effects preferred.
• 1+ years of experience with Figma is preferred.

It is our business imperative to remain a very inclusive workplace.

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