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About the Role

This is a ground-floor opportunity to help build Pinterest's EMEA creative department from the start, as part of House of Creative. As an Art Director, you'll play an integral role in shaping the next iteration of the Pinterest brand — launching global, culturally relevant, award-winning campaigns with a particular emphasis on concepting and art direction. Working across both consumer and B2B marketing, you'll partner with Creative Leaders across the company to tell our story in the most impactful and inspiring way to Consumers, Creators, and Advertisers.

Responsibilities

Conceptualize and develop compelling campaign creative from end to end – taking embryonic ideas towards their strongest possible 360 degree creative execution.
Create memorable films, commercials, and 360° campaigns, including brand partnership work.
Art direct photography and video shoots, from treatments and mood boards through to final selects.
Uplevel creative quality of work across the team in partnership with marketing - delivering both business results and international recognition for the Pinterest brand in the industry.
Provide meaningful feedback to in-house art directors and designers (across a breadth of disciplines, like graphic, motion, digital, video, editing, etc) across a variety of formats.
Compellingly represent the thinking behind your team’s work to key stakeholders, creative directors and team members, including partnering with the US creative team to adapt flagship campaigns for EMEA markets when needed.
Bring depth to conceptual creative direction, art direction, and design.
Use AI tools thoughtfully to explore more ideas faster and bring concepts to life, while owning the craft and quality of the final work.

Requirements

Minimum of 8 years of experience as an art director with an emphasis on producing film, commercials, and 360 campaigns (with 3+ of those years in a creative leadership role).
A book of work with examples of outstanding creative across a variety of brands.
Excellent leadership, mentorship, and interpersonal skills, with a track record of inspiring creative teams to achieve their best work.
Strong grasp of art direction and design craft across a wide variety of formats.
Proven ability to craft a story or concept that shapes culture, rather than reacting to it.
Strong presentation skills, with an ability to convey complex concepts in compellingly simple terms.
Proven experience art directing on set and managing production partners, from treatments and mood boards through to final selects.
An accomplished creative leader who can bring out the best work in others and produce exceptionally high quality work individually.
An expert collaborator: a creative with deep experience working with writing partners to develop concepts, through to execution.
Hands-on experience using generative AI tools in your art direction process (e.g. concepting, mood boards, pre-visualisation), with strong judgement on originality, brand consistency, rights and representation.
Full proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.

Skills

Art Direction
Concept Development
Film Production
Commercial Production
360 Campaign Development
Photography Art Direction
Video Art Direction
Creative Leadership
Mentorship
Interpersonal Skills
Design Craft
Storytelling
Concept Shaping
Presentation Skills
On-Set Art Direction
Production Management
Collaboration
AI Tool Proficiency
Adobe Creative Suite
Figma

Location

London

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time

Experience Level

8+ years of experience as an art director
3+ years in a creative leadership role

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communications, Design, Advertising, or equivalent experience

About the Company

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime.
At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.
Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work.
At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that.
Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think.
House of Creative is a globally recognized, award-winning in-house team.

Equal Opportunity

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws.
We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
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