EY is looking for a Senior Art Director to join our Global Delivery Services (GDS) Creative Center of Excellence (CoE). You will serve as a creative strategist and design thought leader, owning the creative and visual direction for a wide array of collaterals. You'll lead brainstorms and ensure all work is on-brand, user-centric, and aligned with business objectives.
What You'll Do
- Deliver memorable creative ideas that shape audience perception, engagement, and participation.
- Coach and train the wider team to lead with brand-building and distinctive creative ideas and strategy.
- Provide creative leadership to design teams to deliver a range of collaterals including brochures, layouts, infographics, presentations, microsites, motion graphics, and social media.
- Produce strategically sound conceptual work and bring it to life through rapid prototyping, storyboard creation, and post-production.
- Adhere to EY brand guidelines, meeting expectations for aesthetics, quality, turnaround time, budget, and efficiency.
- Stay up-to-date with current and future designs, web standards, concepts, and industry trends.
- Provide creative and art direction support to the team and coordinate to resolve issues.
- Proactively identify opportunities to employ pop culture trends and techniques to create exceptional user experiences.
- Communicate effectively with customers to understand design briefs and share ideas.
- Lead project discussions with customers with a customer-centric mindset.
- Provide unique and innovative design solutions and convince customers to make the right design choices.
- Prioritize deadlines and effectively manage multiple creative projects parallelly.
- Contribute towards various organizational initiatives.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree or college diploma, preferably in Graphic Design or a related discipline.
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe DC, and Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel).
- Experience across a range of digital, social, and integrated media.
- Knowledge of social platforms such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and Pinterest.
- Strong visual design and creative thinking capability.
- At least 12 years of overall experience in a fast-paced global environment.
- Prior art direction experience in leading agencies.
Nice to Have
- Working knowledge of other key software and tools relevant to the industry.
Technical Stack
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe DC
- Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel)
Team & Environment
You will be part of the EY GDS Creative Center of Excellence (CoE), an in-house agency, working with design teams.
Work Mode
This is a global position open to candidates in Argentina, China, India, Philippines, Poland, and the UK.
EY fosters an inclusive culture with global scale and support, united by our purpose of building a better working world.
