Art Director

Art Director

Reports to:    Creative Director

Focus Areas:  Site Design, Branding, Interactive Advertising, and Print Design

Position Summary:

The Art Director ensures the consistency of CBSNews.com and CNET’s branded online presence. The Art Director collaborates directly with the Creative Director, User Experience team members and other cross-functional team members in executing and ideating concepts. The Art Director is responsible for strategically aligning creative concept with strategy, technical specifications, planning and performance analysis. The Art Director will demonstrate leadership qualities and mentor by example.

Responsibilities:

·   Creation of visual design for assigned web projects including: visual interface design systems and elements, new page design layouts, typography, photography, buttons, promotions, rich-media (Flash), design templates and other graphical needs. The ability to design within a corporate branding framework is required.

·   Traditional branding and graphic design experience desirable.

·   Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines

·   Ability to mentor, manage and direct.

·   Superior communication, organization and time management skills.

·   Web site and/or Micro site design experience.

·   Assist and contribute to the development, evolution, update and implementation of design parameters, style guide documentation and visual standards.

·   Design e-newsletters and other marketing communications or support graphics as needed.

·   Stay up-to-date on industry standards (e.g. IAB ad unit standards) and best practices.

 Requirements:

·   Bachelor's degree or higher in Graphic Design, Digital Media Design, Advertising, or other closely related disciplines.

·   5-6+ years of professional web design experience preferably in an agency, marketing or in-house creative services environment with a proven track record for creating branded website experiences.

·   Strong visual design, layout and typographic skills with a sharp attention to detail.

·   Strong knowledge of CSS and expert in design software on the Macintosh platform: Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash. ActionScripting knowledge a plus.

Apply

If interested, please email resume and link to online portfolio to:

gina.matherscbs.com