Top Art Director Jobs in NYC, NY

Develops and oversees creative concepts and visual assets across digital, social, print, presentations, and mock-ups. Collaborates with cross-functional teams, supports new business pitches, manages multiple projects, works within and elevates brand guidelines, mentors junior creatives, and ensures accurate, timely delivery. Requires strong conceptual design, presentation, project management, communication, and organizational skills, with sports and entertainment interest preferred.

Develop and execute creative concepts across digital, social, and print media. Create visual assets, mockups, presentation decks, and compelling visual storytelling for client and new business projects. Collaborate with project managers and cross-functional teams, manage multiple projects and deadlines, uphold brand guidelines, and mentor junior designers. Stay current with cultural and industry trends while delivering accurate, high-quality work.

Lead strategic creative development for healthcare and pharmaceutical brands across digital, print, video, and social channels. Develop visual concepts, apply brand guidelines, present creative rationale to clients, collaborate with copywriters and strategists, and mentor junior art directors. Translate complex medical information into engaging visual narratives while balancing creative goals with pharmaceutical regulatory requirements.

The Associate Art Director helps define and maintain a game's visual identity from early development through delivery. Responsibilities include creating briefs and style guides, leading visual reviews, coordinating art disciplines and partner teams, providing hands-on concept development and paintovers, mentoring artists, managing creative priorities, and ensuring artistic cohesion across characters, environments, animation, VFX, UI, and other game assets.

Leads visual direction for major integrated ATL campaigns, ensuring brand consistency, creative excellence, and scalable delivery. Champions AI-augmented workflows, builds in-house production capabilities, aligns cross-functional teams, develops creative talent, and translates consumer insights and analytics into culturally relevant visual narratives. The role requires extensive experience with high-budget commercial shoots, lifestyle photography, directors, production houses, and award-winning integrated advertising work.

Leads visual direction for major integrated ATL campaigns, ensuring brand consistency, creative excellence, and scalable delivery. Champions AI-enhanced creative workflows, builds in-house production capabilities, aligns cross-functional teams, mentors creative talent, and uses consumer insights and performance analytics to create culturally relevant, measurable visual narratives.

Develop and art direct creative concepts and campaigns for B2B brands across social and digital channels. Translate complex offerings into engaging visual storytelling, create mood boards and storyboards, guide designers and production partners, and present ideas to clients. The role requires strong design craft, platform-native social expertise, collaboration with copywriters and strategists, and ownership from concept through delivery.

Develop and execute visual concepts across campaigns, product launches, shoots, social, digital, e-commerce, retail, events, and other brand touchpoints. The role translates creative direction into mood boards, layouts, visual systems, and production assets; supports photo and video art direction; collaborates with cross-functional teams; presents ideas; maintains brand consistency; and manages multiple creative projects with strong attention to detail.

Lead visual identity and design across campaigns, setting visual direction, overseeing concept development, and ensuring high-quality execution across broadcast, digital, social, experiential, and OOH. Present work to clients, mentor and grow design teams, and personally contribute to typography, photography direction, illustration, motion, and UX as needed.

Concepts and designs social-first and digital-first creative for pharmaceutical brands across paid and organic social, short-form video, display, web, and other digital formats. Develops visual systems, translates clinical information into engaging communications, collaborates with creative and production partners, and ensures compliance with pharmaceutical medical, legal, and regulatory requirements. Presents work, manages revisions and deadlines, and maintains high standards for design quality, accessibility, and brand consistency.

Leads the visual direction and design of multiple children’s magazines, partnering with editorial to develop visual storytelling and manage illustration assignments, photo shoots, layouts, and production workflows. Oversees creative consistency across publications, mentors design staff, manages freelancers and artists, and balances multiple deadlines in a fast-paced publishing environment.

Leads the Defend by Tactacam brand’s visual identity, creative direction, and design production. Manages and mentors graphic designers, develops storytelling-focused campaigns, oversees concepting through final approval, and coordinates schedules, budgets, agencies, vendors, and creative partners. Builds scalable design systems and workflows while partnering with senior creative and brand leaders to deliver high-quality assets across campaigns, product launches, retail, social, and evergreen content.

Leads visual concepting and art direction for integrated multicultural advertising campaigns across TV, social, experiential, retail, healthcare, CRM, and digital channels. Develops campaign systems, storyboards, comps, mockups, and visual language from brief through production. Collaborates with creative, strategy, production, and design teams, mentors midlevel creatives, contributes to pitches, and ensures culturally relevant, high-quality work across platforms.

Leads the visual language and art direction of multicultural integrated advertising campaigns across TV, video, social, experiential, retail, healthcare, and commerce channels. Develops concepts, comps, storyboards, mockups, and campaign systems from brief through production; partners with creative, strategy, production, and design teams; mentors midlevel creatives; supports pitches and new business; and stays current with cultural trends, platforms, and creative formats.

Develops and art directs integrated advertising campaigns across digital, social, CRM, healthcare communications, retail, video, experiential, and AI-enabled creative. Creates concepts, campaigns, storyboards, mockups, visual systems, and production-ready assets while collaborating with copywriters, designers, producers, strategists, and clients. Presents work, supports new business pitches, applies audience insights and direct-response practices, and ensures creative aligns with brand, budget, timing, and communications objectives.

Develop and art direct integrated advertising campaigns across digital, social, CRM, healthcare communications, retail media, experiential, video, and AI-enabled creative. Create concepts, campaigns, storyboards, mockups, visual systems, and production-ready assets while collaborating with copywriters, producers, designers, strategists, and clients. Present work, contribute to pitches, apply audience insights and direct-response practices, and ensure creative aligns with brand, budget, timing, and communication objectives.

Art Director supporting Snap’s SPECS Marketing team, developing visual concepts, campaign platforms, design systems, and production-ready assets. The role spans brand, product, digital, social, web, and experiential work, including directing photography and film productions. Responsibilities include building decks and treatments, presenting concepts, collaborating with creative partners, managing production workflows, and maintaining high creative standards across multiple projects. Hands-on proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite is required.

Create advertising, digital, and print assets using generative AI and Adobe Creative Cloud. Translate briefs into polished, on-brand creative work, manage multiple requests, conduct quality reviews, brief and guide creative teams, present AI workflows to clients, and collaborate with Producers, Creative, and Product teams. Improve creative systems, templates, and workflows while staying current with emerging AI and design technologies.

Leads Marie Claire’s visual direction across print, digital, social, newsletters, and photoshoots. Manages the art team, develops mood boards and creative concepts, oversees print issue design from research through final production, creates social-first graphics and bespoke landing pages, and collaborates with editorial, production, and social teams to deliver approved work on schedule.

Develops and art directs visual concepts across social media, presentations, websites, and experiential projects. Collaborates with designers, copywriters, creators, strategists, producers, and clients to create cohesive, culturally relevant brand work. Responsibilities include brainstorming, designing, reviewing assets, preparing client presentations, supporting pitches, and adapting visuals across platforms. The role requires strong agency experience, rapid concept development, knowledge of Photoshop and AI tools, and comfort working in a hybrid Brooklyn environment with occasional event coverage.

Leads creative direction for campaigns and projects, mentors and manages designers, develops visual concepts, and produces branded assets across digital, print, video, email, social media, websites, and presentations. Collaborates with stakeholders and copywriters, ensures quality and brand consistency, manages project timelines, and communicates creative strategies while maintaining current design and technology expertise.

Art Director shaping the visual identities of Cosmopolitan and Seventeen across print, digital, social, video, and live experiences. Responsibilities include editorial layouts, branding, typography, visual storytelling, creative direction, freelance commissioning, image selection, photo retouching oversight, and workflow improvement. The role collaborates with editorial and production teams while managing multiple deadline-driven projects and maintaining high visual standards.

Art Director responsible for shaping the visual identities of Cosmopolitan and Seventeen across print, digital, social, video, and experiential platforms. Designs editorial layouts, branding assets, graphics, and special projects; collaborates with editorial and production teams; directs freelance creatives, imagery, color, and retouching; and improves creative workflows while managing multiple deadlines.

Lead the creative quality and direction of AI-powered advertising. Develop concepts, prototypes, workflows, standards, and evaluation methods using generative image and video technologies. Experiment with prompting, models, references, and node-based systems while applying expertise in visual storytelling, filmmaking, composition, lighting, editing, pacing, and sound. Collaborate with creative and technical teams, evaluate emerging tools, document best practices, and coach Creative Studio members.

Hands-on Art Director responsible for translating pharmaceutical and market access strategies into polished visual assets across digital, interactive, print, and presentation formats. Manages projects from creative brief through final delivery, presents work to clients, supports pitches, mentors junior designers, and maintains brand standards. Ensures designs meet client guidelines and pharmaceutical regulatory requirements, including MLR review, fair balance, ISI, and reference management.