At Cityscape Digital, purpose and beauty shape visual excellence, creatively and commercially. Our Art Directors drive the visual vision and ambition of the studio internally, shaping feeling, influencing thinking and driving value of all our clients externally.
We are looking for someone with the highest visual standards, who can identify and shape the challenges faced by our client teams, and provide them with an exemplary creative solution, whether it is CGI or game engine led, and who can lead a team of talented artists to author great project vision.
This role would suit a senior artist looking to step up into an Art Direction role, or someone who has experience and is looking for a new, dynamic environment to challenge them.
Roles and Responsibilities
Roles and responsibilities include but are not limited to...
- Be the creative lead in any situation, author and underwrite the ambition and vision of the project
- Attend project briefing sessions, interpreting briefs from the client and shape this into a wider proposal
- Understand the needs and obstacles faced by clients, in order to propose effective and ambitious solutions
- Respond to new business opportunities alongside senior Art Directors and Project Managers
- Oversee the end to end production, taking ideas and concepts through to final presentation material
- Ensure all creative output meets the highest level of excellence both internally and externally
- Lead and shape the vision and ambition of the studio alongside the senior Art Directors and team of Art Directors
- Effectively critique work and guide a team to achieve desired creative output
- Create opportunity and provide guidance to the creative team
- Work collaboratively alongside the Resource Manager to assign and resource projects in the team, ensuring the right people are booked on the right projects
- Manage day-to-day teams on projects, working on one main project and overseeing multiple smaller projects
- Work on a mixture of production and direction, with the ratio depending on project demands
- Mentoring oversight on new artists that come into the studio, sharing the load of performance reviews and recruitment with other Art Directors
- Ensure that all projects stay on track financially and creatively
- Ensuring the highest levels of project control, articulating way of working at the beginning of a project to the wider client team and effectively maintaining this throughout the project
Required Experience
- Experience within a creative industry leading projects - internally and externally
- Experience pitching and presenting
- Experience within the field of architectural visualisation is desired - but not critical - we are willing to see candidates outside of this field, however, they must be willing to adapt to a visualisation workflow
- Strong level of visual critique
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Exceptional idea generation
- Strong negotiation and client engagement skills
- Excellent organisational skills
How to Apply
If you are interested please send a PDF CV, portfolio and introductory email to with the email subject “Art Director 2024” . We will not be reviewing any applications sent through without a portfolio.
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