In addition to hiring for Creative Directors, we are also excited to announce our LA team will be expanding with a number of open Art Director roles. Details included below!

Year of Experience: Minimum of 5 years

Position Type: Full-time and part-time available

Core Responsibilities:

Develop content that is optimized for sharing on the social web (i.e., dimensions, type size and concepts that will resonate) by teaming across departments and adhering to project briefs.
Provide image making leadership on creative projects that range from print and static-web, to motion and interactive-web.
Support Creative Directors on staffing and leading projects, ensuring the JESS3 creative process and standards (internally and externally) are implemented and participate in high-level creative conversations and thought leadership with clients and new business opportunities, as well as the internal team.

Your Craft:

Served as Senior Designer or Art Director at a vanguard studio, digital agency and/or brand.
Strong image-maker and conceptual thinker who can expertly navigate experimentation with control, visual problem solving, visual communication and visual narrative development.
Robust experience and success in all forms of media, including: interactive design, digital content, infographic, illustration, identity, motion, print and graphic design.
Highly experienced with Adobe Creative Suite; strong track record of preparing and handing off a perfect file and seeing a perfect line of type.
Experience designing content that is optimized for web and social distribution.
Experience with Motion Graphics, After Effects and Cinema 4D is preferred.
Strong working knowledge of frontend development languages, with experience having launched dozens of major interactive executions is preferred.

The Ideal Team Player:

Must have experience coordinating across multiple timezones, cloud-based tools, locations and departments (strategy, design, production and development) for successful results (on time, on budget, seamless launches). We will be looking for an excellent track record as a team, business, finance and operational manager.
Applicants must be open to collaborative direction and design efforts and be comfortable building upon the work of others and allowing others to build upon their own work (JESS3 is a collaborative environment; team members often build upon each other’s creative work).
Must be comfortable joining client meetings / calls and effectively translating feedback from clients to constructive direction for other team members with readiness to balance client’s goals and constraints with creative desires and opportunities.
Solution-oriented, proactive and team spirited.

To Apply:

Send your cover letter, resume and a link to your online portfolio to jobs@jess3.com with the subject line: “YOUR NAME Applying for Art Director” (example: Jane Doe Applying for Art Director).
Your cover letter should address a summary of the requirements above with examples, as well as answer these three questions with supporting examples: (1) Why do you want to work at JESS3?; (2) What sites do you go to for inspiration?; (3) What is your spirit animal and why?