Art Director

WE HAVE CREATED A WORLD WHERE ART AND SCIENCE ARE BEST FRIENDS

Known is a modern marketing company engineered for the unprecedented opportunities and challenges facing marketers today. We are about 250+ people strong, pairing PhD data scientists with award-winning creatives, strategists, engineers and expert research teams to produce some of the most innovative and cutting-edge creative work in culture. We believe that when creative truly collaborates with science, strategy, and technology, amazing things can happen. 

Ad Age touted that “Known may be the ultimate example of a full-service agency,” and honored us with top ten status on The Agency A-List for 2024 & 2025, and as Ad Age’s Data & Insights Agency of the year for a record third year in a row. Without our incredible partnerships with our clients, spanning across the leading brands in finance, technology, entertainment, media, CPG, real estate, and many other categories, honors like this could not be possible, and also have helped us earn additional awards and recognitions over the years like: Emmys, Clios, Effies, Cannes Lions Awards, ProMax Agency of the Year, Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas, Digiday’s 2025 Best AI Platform and Digiday’s Most Innovative Media Agency, to name a few.

We couldn’t create this award-winning work without seeking out and hiring the best talent. What does it mean to be a Knowner? We are curious innovators, knowledge-hunters who are constantly challenging ourselves to do better and be better for our clients, for our team and for our world at large. Our offices around the U.S. are open and while most of our people work in a hybrid setting, we are a distributed workforce with a number of Knowners working remotely.

BUT ENOUGH ABOUT US, LET'S TALK ABOUT YOU

Known is looking for a talented and multidisciplinary Art Director to join the Studios practice. The Art Director will be responsible for concepting and creating outstanding, innovative brand designs for social, digital and print executions primarily, as well as web, video, and brand design. Candidates must be located in New York City and available to work in a hybrid capacity. 

Note: This is a temp-to-perm position with a 2-3 month introductory period prior to conversion to a full-time role with benefits.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Concept and create outstanding art direction and brand designs for digital, social, print/OOH and video
• Enhance our clients’ brand experience through innovative, cutting edge, multidisciplinary art direction and design executions that exceed expectations
• Leverage talent for visual design and art direction to contribute to holistic experiences that solve for business goals

• Maintain a level of creative excellence strategically and executionally
• Be an antenna for outside inspiration, bringing new thinking & ideas into the Creative department
• Work closely with Creative Director and Associate Creative Director to develop and bring concepts to life through engaging design and animation executions
• Build client presentations
and templates for pitches and client meetings on a case by case basis
• Consistently communicate with project owners regarding project status and challenges

• Provide technical input and advice on projects as required to achieve high quality


WHAT YOU HAVE DONE/WHO YOU ARE

• You have a BA in design or other related field
• You have 5-6+ years of professional experience working in art direction/design at an advertising agency or in house creative team
• You have knowledge of leading AI software/platforms, i.e. Midjourney
• You have experience working on brand/visual/digital/social design projects; motion design skills preferred
• You have a superior design eye and a solid understanding of fundamental disciplines of design as well as design trends, specifically across brand design, type, layout, image composition, and infographic design
• You have expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and Google Suite.