Art Director Freelance

We are looking for a creative and experienced Art Director Freelance who enjoys working in a fast paced environment driven by innovation and design. You will cooperate with a design-savvy team to devise an overall concept. He will bring a mix of artistic, marketing, and business expertise to the position, promoting our company and that of our valued clients.

The ideal candidate will have a natural eye for design and a passion for delivering dynamic ideas that connect and stimoulate any audience translating marketing and branding strategies into innovative and impressive campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Determine how best to represent an idea or a concept visually keeping on brief and managing the ideation, generating clean ideas
• Present completed ideas to clients/team members
• Produce sketches, storyboards, roughs to visualize ideas
• Understand marketing initiatives, strategic positioning and target audience
• Manage and cooperate with the creative team such as graphic designers, set and exhibit designers, or other design staff
• Review and approve and amended designs, artwork, photography, and graphics developed by other staff members
• Take work from concept to final execution within deadlines
• Detailed estimations

• Proven working experience as Art Director
• Deep knowledge of mobile and web app design patterns and UX best practices
• Knowledge of the entire product development process, from the idea generation, research, to detailed UI and interaction design
• Hands on experience with logo design, typography, color, web layout design, print production, image selection and package design are highly valued
• Proficient use of Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) and UX/UI and prototyping tools such as Figma
• Demonstrable graphic design skills with a strong portfolio
• Incorporate feedback and take/give direction well
• Team player with strong communication and presentation skills
• Relevant education or training
• Knowledge of Agile framework and product management tools (Asana, Jira, ...) is highly valued
• Strong design sensibility with ability to translate research findings into tangible solutions or design opportunities and ability to influence product or business strategy through research.
• Clear growth mindset, looking for opportunities to learn and motivated to approach challenges proactively
• Detailed oriented
• Fluent in English
• Italian nice to have

• Long-term collaborative relationship
• Young, cool, innovative and international environment·
• Work on very innovative projects for international brands