Cityscape Digital - Art Director
Job Details
London Bridge
Type: Full-time (Monday-Friday)
Hybrid Working:
Monday & Tuesday - Optional WFH
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday - In-Office
Office Location: London Bridge
At Cityscape Digital, purpose and beauty shape visual excellence, creatively and commercially. Our Art Directors drive the visual vision and ambition of the studio internally, shaping feeling, influencing thinking and driving value of all our clients externally.
We are looking for someone with the highest visual standards, who can identify and shape the challenges faced by our client teams, and provide them with an exemplary creative solution, whether it is CGI or game engine led, and who can lead a team of talented artists to author great project vision.
This role would suit a senior artist looking to step up into an Art Direction role, or someone who has experience and is looking for a new, dynamic environment to challenge them.
Roles and Responsibilities
Roles and responsibilities include but are not limited to...
Creative Leadership
Be the creative lead in any situation, author and underwrite the ambition and vision of the project
Attend project briefing sessions, interpreting briefs from the client and shape this into a wider proposal
Understand the needs and obstacles faced by clients, in order to propose effective and ambitious solutions
Respond to new business opportunities alongside senior Art Directors and Project Managers
Oversee the end to end production, taking ideas and concepts through to final presentation material
Ensure all creative output meets the highest level of excellence both internally and externally
Team + Project Leadership
Lead and shape the vision and ambition of the studio alongside the senior Art Directors and team of Art Directors
Effectively critique work and guide a team to achieve desired creative output
Create opportunity and provide guidance to the creative team
Work collaboratively alongside the Resource Manager to assign and resource projects in the team, ensuring the right people are booked on the right projects
Manage day-to-day teams on projects, working on one main project and overseeing multiple smaller projects
Work on a mixture of production and direction, with the ratio depending on project demands
Mentoring oversight on new artists that come into the studio, sharing the load of performance reviews and recruitment with other Art Directors
Ensure that all projects stay on track financially and creatively
Ensuring the highest levels of project control, articulating way of working at the beginning of a project to the wider client team and effectively maintaining this throughout the project
Required Experience
- Experience within a creative industry leading projects - internally and externally
- Experience pitching and presenting
- Experience within the field of architectural visualisation is desired - but not critical - we are willing to see candidates outside of this field, however, they must be willing to adapt to a visualisation workflow
Essential Skills
- Strong level of visual critique
- Team Leadership
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Exceptional idea generation
- Strong negotiation and client engagement skills
- Excellent organisational skills
Cityscape Digital
We solve problems. As visual communicators, 3D consultants, innovators and creative
thinkers we add value across the full lifespan of our clients projects.
We love the ambitious,the fast thinkers and the risk takers. We believe in new technology-led innovation. We see technology enabling ideas and approaches that were not previously imaginable. We believe in the power of communication to build desire and influence thinking.
We believe in radical beauty.
We offer full creative direction and strategic advice to help our clients define their market
position, brand voice and sales process. We are world-leading in the deployment of new
technology to secure premium sales and letting. We have a proud record of bid winning. As creative
thinkers we welcome the unusual problems, unclimbed mountains and frightening deadlines.
We believe the best creative work is collaborative and daring.
We believe in excellence, purpose, and beauty.
Benefits
??? Centrally located office in London Bridge, moments away from mainline and tube stations
?? After-work social events
?? BUPA Private health insurance after successful probation
?? Free yoga sessions with More Yoga
?? Cycle to work scheme, with secure cycle storage and showers
?? Travel card loans after successful probation
?? Hybrid work environment
??? Pension scheme
?? Access to Headspace wellbeing app
?? Happy Hour on Fridays
??? 20 days annual leave + public holidays, increasing to 23 after 5 years of service
How to Apply
If you are interested please send a PDF CV, portfolio and introductory email to [email protected] with the email subject “Art Director 2024”. We will not be reviewing any applications sent through without a portfolio.