About the Role
The Art Director is a craft specialist and independent creative contributor responsible for delivering high-quality design across multiple brands and formats. You will collaborate with various team members to produce integrated, multi-channel creative that is brand-true, audience-relevant, and SLA-compliant.
Responsibilities
- Design across a wide range of digital formats including email, paid social, display, digital OOH, web, and video support.
- Maintain brand integrity across all visual output, applying each brand's distinct identity with precision and care.
- Work from briefs, delivering design concepts and executions to the agreed quality standard and timeline.
- Partner with Copywriters to ensure visual and verbal elements of every asset are fully integrated.
- Use Pencil and other AI-assisted design tools to enhance production speed and creative iteration, applying rigorous human quality judgment.
- Contribute to the QA and review process, ensuring all design assets are technically accurate, brand-compliant, and delivery-ready.
- Participate in brand immersion sessions to build deep knowledge of the brands supported, including their audiences, retail environments, and regulatory considerations.
- Adapt and version existing creative across formats, sizes, and channels, including both manual adaptation and AI-assisted resizing and reformatting.
- Collaborate effectively across time zones, maintaining clear communication and timely delivery while working remotely.
Requirements
- A portfolio demonstrating strong art direction and design craft across digital channels.
- Professional proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and/or Figma.
- Experience working in high-volume, multi-brand content production environments with a structured, detail-oriented approach.
- Experience working on personal care, OTC, and/or home brands is a strong asset.
- Understanding of accessibility, email design specifications, and digital production requirements.
- Experience with or genuine interest in AI-assisted design tools and workflows.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent briefs without losing quality or missing deadlines.
- Proficiency with AI design and image generation tools (Pencil, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, or equivalent) to enhance creative output and iteration speed.
- Experience building personal AI-assisted design workflows to improve efficiency and quality.
- Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated design outputs and apply creative judgment to ensure brand quality.
- An agentic approach to multi-brief creative execution: organized, systematic, and proactive.
- Comfortable working independently in a remote environment while remaining a collaborative and communicative team member.
Skills
- Art Direction
- Design Craft
- Digital Channels
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Figma
- AI-assisted design tools
- Pencil
- Adobe Firefly
- Midjourney
Location
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Salary/Compensations
- $91,800—$102,600 CAD
About the Company
- Established in 2004, Inside Ideas Group is a rapidly growing global agency network that helps clients drive their businesses forward. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries. Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency, delivering tailored solutions. As part of The Brandtech Group, we leverage cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionize how we create and deliver work, enhancing efficiency, sparking creativity, and driving insightful decision-making.
- Inside Ideas Group has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets. We work towards our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.
Equal Opportunity
- Inside Ideas Group, part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.
