Ogilvy

About Ogilvy

Aspiring to grow brands, drive impacts for our clients and inspire our people, T&A Ogilvy has constantly pushed our creativity and mindset to transform from a leading PR agency to the best creative innovation partner and a borderless creative playground for our talents, so everyone can #GrowWithUs.

About the Role 

The Art director is responsible for the creative output, with oversight of creative processes; the ideation, presentation and execution of client branding and marketing communications campaigns; the profitability and creative quality of client projects, and the operational readiness of the creative team, all in fulfillment of our brand promise to our clients, including:

• Generate ideas and see them through to completion after understanding client requirements.
• Work in teams both internal and external to develop creative outputs and thereafter discussing the same with the client
• Work with external agencies like producers, photographers, editors
• Ensuring that our high quality of creative and production is upheld, maintaining consistently high standards for him/herself and others on the team
• Listening, asking, hearing, prioritizing and translating client situation, marketing goals and information into strategic brand/ campaign/ project concepts, voice, messages and rationales
• Collaborating and contributing to the creative process as a leader of a creative team, and as a member of the account team
• Co-leading the unified creative/account management process in order to execute on client projects
• Ensuring the professional development and readiness of the creative team

What You’ll Do 

• Make decisions on a daily basis that ensure both profitability and creative quality
• Set expectations and standards (build a culture) for creative team attitude, behavior, teamwork and professional development.
• Study the creative marketplace, assessing where Ogilvy’s work stands against competitors’, as well as our clients’ competitors’ creative work.
• Drive constant improvement in Ogilvy’s creative quality and capabilities.
• Valued as a routine contributor of informed, analytical and strategic contributions to new program development / business opportunities.
• Assure that timely and informative communication takes place between the creative function and account team and clients
• Contribute to the strategic and creative development of the agency’s marketing and branding efforts for new business development

What You’ll Need 

• Superior leadership and collaboration skills
• Superior problem solving and decision-making skills
• Excellence in managing and motivating staff
• Excellent communication and persuasion skills
• Understanding of advertising and marketing principles
• Understanding of marcom strategies and tactics, including technologies.
• Ability to judge creative concepts and copy, and clearly communicate creative direction to others
• Thorough understanding of clients and their business/industry
• Excellent presentation skills
• Thorough understanding of art direction
• Understanding of on and offline marcom elements production
• Communication, planning, time-management and follow-through skills
• Excellent knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office

How We’ll Support You 

Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates. 

Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and strives to recruit a diverse slate of candidates to help us achieve that goal.