About the Role
GMMB is seeking an Art Director to develop campaign concepts for purpose-driven clients, translating strategy and insights into clear, compelling, and actionable ideas across various media. The role requires strong conceptual thinking, visual craft, and the ability to bring creative ideas to life.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with copywriters, digital strategists, account staff, and others to develop campaign concepts for purpose-driven clients.
- Translate strategy, audience insights, and complex issues into ideas that are clear, compelling, and actionable.
- Create ideas that can live across a wide variety of media including video, print, interactive, social, out-of-home, and in-person activations.
- Develop mood boards, visual treatments, storyboards, social concepts, activation ideas, pitch visuals, presentation decks, and other materials that help sell and shape the work.
- Clearly explain creative ideas, and the strategic thinking behind them, internally and to clients.
- Work with designers and production partners to bring ideas to life, providing clear direction while respecting the craft and expertise of the broader creative team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in art direction, design, or integrated campaign development, preferably in an agency or in-house creative department.
- A portfolio that shows strong conceptual thinking, visual craft, and the ability to turn strategy into compelling creative.
- Experience developing campaign concepts across multiple channels.
- A creative who is a strong conceptual thinker who can generate campaign ideas, not just make things look good.
- A creative who brings care, judgment, and cultural awareness to purpose-driven work, understanding that our campaigns often touch nuanced issues, real communities, and sensitive subject matter.
Skills
- Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (especially Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign).
- Familiarity with motion, prototyping, or Ai tools a bonus.
Location
- Seattle, WA
- Washington, DC area
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
Salary/Compensations
- $70,000 - $85,000
About the Company
- GMMB is a company that aims to make a difference in the world, working with candidates and organizations committed to important issues like education, health, climate, democracy, economic mobility, and social justice.
- GMMB values the importance of inclusion and impact, fostering a culture where everyone is welcomed and their talents are channeled into the work.
Equal Opportunity
- GMMB is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind.
- GMMB is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.
- All employment decisions at GMMB are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, age, sex, national origin, ethnicity, mental or physical disability, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression or military status or other categories defined by applicable local, state and federal statutes in the locations where we operate.
- GMMB encourages applicants of all ages.
- GMMB will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
- While providing demographic information is voluntary, GMMB encourages applicants to do so. This information will not be used to make employment related decisions but will be shared with limited personnel to build inclusive policies and programs.
