Art Director Jobs

Every day, millions of people from over 190 countries trust us to handle their precious creative ideas.

Since making our name with quick & simple file-sharing, WeTransfer has evolved to help creators organize, share, and get feedback on their work – from inception right up to delivery. We showcase the best brands to more than 80 million users per month, and our editorial platform WePresent has championed unexpected stories of creativity from around the globe and features collaborations from world-famous artists, too.

Sounds like fun, right? Allow us to sweeten the deal: as a certified B Corporation, we do all of this while using business as a force for good, balancing people, the planet, and profit along the way.

About Us

The Creative Studio is WeTransfer’s in-house agency which oversees all things creative that we put out into the world. We foster an entrepreneurial yet supportive environment where design defines us, ideas can come from anywhere, and execution is everything. Our team of designers, developers, copywriters and project managers work closely with our product, marketing, advertising, editorial, and sales teams to help design, plan and publish projects that capture the imaginations of millions of users and our global audience.

About You

As an Art Director, you are part of the Creative Studio Brand team. WeTransfer stands for freedom, creativity, simplicity, and humanity. It is your responsibility to make sure we inspire and reflect these values wherever WeTransfer shows up. From our evolving product line-up to our editorial arm WePresent, across research & innovation projects like Ideas Report and the Future of Creativity, and our Influence podcast—there is so much more to WeTransfer than most people are aware of, and we need your help to tell the world about it.

Your role

We are seeking an Art Director who has strong conceptual skills with a solid ability and understanding in craft. They should be enthusiastic, curious, proactive, enthusiastic and positive. This role is for someone who doesn't have to always wait to be told what to do. It's a job that is what you make of it.

As an Art Director, you will be responsible for helping lead brand campaigns as well as concepting and bringing to life additional ideas in service of building the brand. This can mean anything from the previously mentioned brand campaigns to branded content to product innovation to strategy to partnerships and collaborations.

You should have strong communication skills, and be able to lead calls with key stakeholders, reviews, and strategic workshops where you’ll be providing creative guidance and leadership to the team. You should have a passion for advertising and understand the variety of nuances that surround communication design and how the various disciplines cross over to one another. You should be a strategic thinker and someone who is always looking to make waves within the world of brand advertising. You will also work closely with the design team, working with them to help blow out a vision or design direction across all necessary touch points.

As the Art Director, you will be helping to define creative excellence and levels of experimentation within the group. Through reputation and industry presence, we would look at this key hire to help us hire other top tier creatives. They will be tasked with ensuring we can continue to build capabilities to develop industry award-winning and recognized work.

We want someone who can move autonomously, asks for forgiveness and not permission. The ideal candidate is a self-starter with a natural curiosity and drive to excel. WeTransfer is a leader in the creative industry, and the aim is to further cement this recognition and understanding with this hire and the work that they will be a part of developing.

If you are passionate about creativity, have a proven track record of delivering innovative work, and are looking for a role where you can make a real impact, then we want to hear from you. Apply now and join our team of top-tier creatives.

What you’ll be doing:

• Responsible for driving projects with some supervision, along with and mentoring junior members of the team
• Embrace challenges and inspire new ways of thinking
• Contribute to a collaborative, creative and inclusive learning environment
• Translate commercial advertising objectives into clear creative ideas
• Manage, lead and inspire the creative process from concept to delivery
• Encourage a culture of continuous feedback and improvement, productive thinking, and collaboration within the studio and company
• Take ownership of internal initiatives that help inspire the team and streamline processes
• Identify areas for growth and understand how to frame up opportunities for senior leadership to help action
• Create and manage original, persuasive and conceptually compelling work for campaigns, content and experiences, across a variety of clients.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and various teams within WT
• Ability to help steer cross functional project teams that include digital designers, copywriters, motion designers, developers and project managers in the strategic creative development of design output
• Listen to and respond to briefs, question where there are gaps
• Be accountable for the project design deliverables and manage the quality of all deliverables to ensure they meet WeTransfer standards for creative excellence.
• Leads by example to inspire colleagues to originate pioneering ideas that deliver successful solutions.

What you bring to the table:

• An eye and passion for details
• Exceptional design aesthetic, variations on styles, and awareness of design trends and innovation
• 7+ years experience leading and designing high end campaign work
• A portfolio that demonstrates your ability to craft visual concepts for a brand across a variety of mediums
• Fluent in English (both written and spoken).
• Understands and designs for motion (interactions, transitions and micro animations)
• Ability to manage uncertainty and enjoys solving undefined problems
• Understanding that with more responsibility comes more autonomy
• Ability to handle multiple projects and be flexible and adaptable to client needs
• Experience working in a fast paced agency environment
• Based in NY or AMS or willing to relocate
• Actively scans the industry for the best of the best inspiration, examples of our craft and shares your exciting finds with the team
• Stellar interpersonal and communication skills with both internal and external stakeholders.

Bonus points

• A pro when it comes to Figma
• The ability to bring your designs to life using film, editing, animations, transitions, micro-interactions in After Effects

WeTransfer is an equal opportunity employer and we pride ourselves on the diversity of our people. We welcome you, and everything that makes you—well, you. That includes your gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, or disability status.

A note on remote

Our work environment is hybrid-remote, meaning that we support our employees to work remotely and in the office. We encourage employees to decide for themselves and with their team whether or when to go to the office.

Background screening

While it is not necessarily a determining or disqualifying factor for any role, you may be required to complete a standard employment background screening.