Sport & Entertainment - Senior Art Director

7 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia M&C Saatchi Group Full time

M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment is the PR and partnership agency within the M&C Saatchi Group. We are a full-service passion marketing agency that connects brands to Australians through the things they love. We're dedicated, smart and collaborative experts in our field. We're passionate about coming together to create and realise big ambitions for some of the largest brands in the country.

As part of the M&C Saatchi Group we come together to realise BIG AMBITIONS. And ours is to be the most connected creative company by organising original thinkers in uncommon ways.

We celebrate people who embrace our values and BIG AMBITIONS and the opportunity is here now for a Senior Art Director to join our team in Sydney.

The opportunity:

As the Senior Art Director at M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment you will think differently to a traditional advertising creative with a focus on storytelling across multiple channels with a big focus on earned, (The key difference is knowing how to come up with a PR idea, not just how to PR an advertising idea) delivering campaigns including but not limited to sponsorship, brand partnerships, experiential, influencer, social and content.

You'll have a love for sport & entertainment and a deep interest in culture, sub-cultures and the niche audiences within those subcultures and you'll create work that reflects the new ways audiences cultivate their passions.

You'll be as happy working alongside a Senior Copywriter in concepting campaign ideas as you are working solo with Strategists, designers or PR & Partnerships specialists when relevant for the project at hand.

The Senior Art Director is responsible for all visual elements of the work in collaboration with the designers, and is accountable for the look and feel of the work, from concept through production to completion.

A snapshot of what you'll do:

  • Drive brilliance in ideas, craft and strategy across all channel touch points
  • Responsible for establishing creative direction across key client projects, adapting strategic insights from creative briefs into visually compelling campaigns
  • Work closely with client and strategic leads as well as the Managing Director to effectively package and sell integrated campaigns and ideas to our clients.
  • Effectively promote our client's brands, engage their target audience, and drive business objectives with your keen eye for design, visual storytelling and deep understanding of visually impactful campaigns
  • Develop compelling art direction across all campaign touch points, including but not limited to, video content, social posts, PR materials, activations and presentation decks
  • Uphold brand guidelines to ensure consistency across all marketing touchpoints, while also exploring new creative directions to keep our brands fresh and relevant.
  • Be comfortable designing own presentations, photoshop mockups, key visuals, logo lock-ups, digital and social assets, basic editing and scamping/illustrating ideas and storyboards.
  • Have a good understanding of UX design for digital and experiential.
  • Stay abreast of industry, cultural, and social trends, emerging technologies, and creative techniques to drive continuous innovation and improvement in marketing initiatives.
  • Collaborate with the experiential production team to develop engaging and immersive brand experiences. Creating moodboards, and visual and design direction on all activation touch points.
  • Manage creative outputs through the production process, including creation/oversight of storyboards and visual treatments for shoots,briefing talent and influencers, providing direction for shoots, editing and post production
  • Be an expert in storytelling, keeping up-to-date knowledge of industry trends, news, and events.
  • Directly contribute to new business pitches for the Agency, and across the group.
  • Creatively inspire and share work with the wider Sport & Entertainment team
  • Partner with all Sport & Entertainment team members to help identify possibilities for creative solutions that connect consumers with clients' brands in personal and memorable ways
  • Collaborate and contribute to the creative process across M&C Saatchi group projects, showcasing Sport & Entertainment specialism in Partnerships, PR & Activations generating award-winning best-in-class work.

Your ideal experience:

  • Proven experience within a creative role at a senior level
  • Ideally a portfolio of work to share
  • Experience working in tandem with a Copywriter

What WE value MOST:

  • Walk in different worlds
  • Make Uncommon Sense
  • Run Towards the Fire (except if there is an actual fire when we run away from it)
  • Roll as one
  • Be excellent to each other

Best bits about working with us:

Our big benefits fuel our big ambitions. We're here to support and encourage our people at every turn. Our commitment to your individual needs stems from our diverse Flexible Flexibility work approach, flexing to how you want to work and how you want to take your leave. You'll be saying "hello holidays" with our flexible public holidays, summer half days and even extra leave for taking your leave. And, to further our support to you, Family First, Health and Wellness paid leave are on offer, along with our Work From Anywhere in the world initiative (so you can stay connected across the globe). Plus, you can join our inclusive community led networks, supporting things you care about and your cultural and social wellbeing.

We're committed to building a diverse workplace and strongly encourage applications from First Nations people, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, mature age workers and LGBTQIA+ people. Our flexible work approach, employee-led diversity networks and inclusive career development approach all support and promote one of our core values 'Walk in Different Worlds' which helps describe our overall DE&I mission. If you require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please let our team know.

WHAT ARE YOUR BIG AMBITIONS?

We'd love to hear what your ambitions are and how we can help you realise them with us

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