Summary
The Director of Design at RP3 Agency is a visionary leader responsible for shaping and elevating the visual identity of our agency and our clients. This role involves leading and mentoring a team of talented designers, driving the creative process from concept to execution, and ensuring that all visual outputs meet the highest standards of excellence. The ideal candidate is a conceptual strategic thinker with a deep understanding of design principles, brand development, and creative direction, capable of translating client goals into impactful visual solutions. The ideal candidate is versatile in both offline and digital environments and is a proponent of AI. The Director of Design is eager to create and lead award winning work.

Who You Are

• Creative: Putting together two things to create a third thing no one’s ever seen before
• Productive: Acting on ideas to make things happen and get stuff done
• Collaborative: Focused on the greater good versus personal gain
• Adaptable: Ready and able to embrace change

Strategic Goals

Help grow our agency: RP3 Agency’s goal is to grow at least 20% each year and increase our portfolio of “higher profile” brands. The Director of Design will be a key leader in attaining this goal and will participate in an evaluation of the agency’s positioning, messaging, and identity.

Lead a culture of creativity throughout the entire agency: Help lead the creative team, supervising and developing all designers. Attract and retain talent within the department. Together with other creative and agency leadership, educate the agency on your creative vision and inspire the agency employees to follow it.

Develop and deliver a high-quality creative product: Collaborate with internal team members and our clients to create award-winning creative work that meets strategic goals. Work with PR to get recognized for that work.

Job Responsibilities

• Leadership & Management: Lead and inspire a team of designers, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment. Mentor and develop design talent, providing guidance and constructive feedback to elevate their skills and creativity.
• Creative Direction & Art Direction: Take the lead in the creative direction and art direction for ad campaigns across various media, including digital, print, broadcast, and social. Ensure that all campaign visuals are on-brand, innovative, and effectively communicate the desired message. Leads design for offline and digital environments. Knowledge of web design is crucial.
• Visual Identity Development: Oversee the creation and evolution of visual identities for a diverse portfolio of clients, ensuring consistency and alignment with brand strategies.
• Campaign Conceptualization: Collaborate with copywriters, strategists, and other creatives to develop compelling concepts for ad campaigns. Drive the ideation process, ensuring that creative ideas are both groundbreaking and aligned with client objectives.
• Design Excellence: Maintain and elevate the overall design aesthetic of the agency, ensuring that all work produced is of the highest quality and reflective of the agency's standards. Can produce and submit award winning work.
• Client Collaboration: Partner with clients to understand their brand needs and translate them into compelling visual solutions. Present and articulate design concepts to clients, effectively communicating the rationale behind design decisions.
• Project Management: Manage multiple design projects simultaneously, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and on budget. Oversee the allocation of design resources to meet project demands.
• Innovation & Trends: Stay current with design trends, tools, and technologies, integrating new ideas and techniques into the agency's work. Encourage the team to experiment and push the boundaries of design. Be a proponent of AI for the design process where appropriate.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with other departments, including strategy, account management, and production, to ensure a cohesive approach to client projects.

Director Competencies

• Creative Design Vision
• Strategic Thinking
• Conflict Management
• Developing Others
• Entrepreneurship

Core Competencies

• Accountability
• Problem Solving
• Communication
• Detail Orientation
• Teamwork
• Creativity

Technical Competencies

• Conceptual Ideation
• Creative Execution — Design Focus
• Offline and digital environments

Supervisor Responsibilities
The Director of Design will help lead and manage the creative team with other Creative leadership.

Position/Hours Worked
This is a full-time position. This position regularly requires long hours and occasional weekend work.

Additional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, or a related field; a Master’s degree is a plus.
• 8+ years of experience in a design leadership role, preferably within an agency setting.
• Proven track record of developing successful visual identities and leading creative projects from concept to completion. Award-winning work.
• Extensive experience in creative direction and art direction for ad campaigns, with a strong portfolio showcasing a range of campaign work across various mediums.
• Expertise in design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and other relevant tools.
• Experience with Web design, Figma, Principle, Framer, prototyping, Lottie animations
• Exceptional leadership and team management skills, with a demonstrated ability to inspire and mentor creative talent.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design concepts to clients and internal teams.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Passion for design, creativity, and innovation, with a keen eye for detail and a commitment to excellence.

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Summary

The Senior Art Director transforms compelling and imaginative concepts into visual reality. Taste, intelligence, and a keen eye are critical. Candidates should have excellent design skills, be a smart strategic thinker with the ability to conceptually generate ideas — partnering with a copywriter (and other creatives) across a wide range of work, including broadcast, print, digital, design, motion graphics, social and immersive experiences. The Senior Art Director will have the opportunity to learn and show leadership skills. They will see through to execution, in partnership with production, strategy, account management and with close mentorship by the Creative Director. The Senior Art Director is equally meticulous when it comes to effective written communication. They value the importance of a Copywriter and understand the importance of that partnership to find inspiration and deliver innovation. The Senior Art Director is familiar with award winning and inspiring work in the industry. The ideal candidate is versatile in both offline and digital environments and is a proponent of AI.

Who You Are

• Creative: Putting together two things to create a third thing no one’s ever seen before
• Productive: Acting on ideas to make things happen and get stuff done
• Collaborative: Focused on the greater good versus personal gain
• Adaptable: Ready and able to embrace change

Job Responsibilities

• Independent thinking, drive, energy and enthusiasm — a team player who takes the initiative
• Produce exceptional work for clients and RP3, both creatively and effectively, in multiple media types including, but not limited to TV, video, print, digital, outdoor, social and collateral
• Provide conceptual thinking and designs; possess the capability to flesh them out across a range of executions
• Partner with copywriters and creative staff to concept and solve problems in bold, fresh, innovative ways
• Create compelling art and design that activates desired target audiences toward our clients’ and RP3’s goals
• Maintain best practices for file and server management, including the consistent application of naming conventions, file/folder organization, versioning control, job slugs, and more
• Maintain client brand guidelines and design standards
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting mutually agreed deadlines
• Maintain important relationships with internal department colleagues and clients to help the agency maintain value and respect
• Possess a positive attitude when working with colleagues, associates, and clients. Be solutions-oriented and supportive in finding solutions to unexpected challenges/requirements

Core Competencies

• Creativity
• Accountability
• Problem Solving
• Communication
• Detail Orientation
• Teamwork

Technical Competencies

• Conceptual Ideation
• Creative Execution — Design and Art Direction Focus

Position/Hours Worked

This is a full-time position. This position regularly requires long hours and occasional weekend work.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Additional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field
• 6+ years of experience with an advertising or design company
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates design and art direction expertise, originality, innovation, problem-solving, and personal expression
• Work examples should prove you’ve solved business problems. (While we expect you to make beautiful things, your work must also be effective at solving a client’s business problems.)
• Detail oriented, able to work under pressure
• Effective oral, written, and verbal communication skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Proficiency in the entire Adobe Creative Suite and any additional design/art direction tools. Motion Graphics tools and Generative AI a plus.
• Strong interpersonal skills — a team player, positive and innovative thinker.
•  Highly motivated and a high level of initiative — ability to work independently when needed, to support the agency’s creative goals and the client’s business objectives.

Summary

The Art Director transforms compelling and imaginative concepts into visual reality. Taste, intelligence, and a keen eye are critical. Candidates should have excellent design skills, be a smart strategic thinker with the ability to conceptually generate ideas — partnering with a Copywriter (and other creatives) across a wide range of work, including broadcast, print, digital, design, motion graphics, social and immersive experiences. They will see through to execution, in partnership with production, strategy, account management and with close mentorship by the Creative Director. They value the importance of a Copywriter and understand the importance of that partnership to find inspiration and deliver innovation. The Art Director is familiar with award winning and inspiring work in the industry. The ideal candidate is versatile in both offline and digital environments and is a proponent of AI.

Who You Are

• Creative: Putting together two things to create a third thing no one’s ever seen before
• Productive: Acting on ideas to make things happen and get stuff done
• Collaborative: Focused on the greater good versus personal gain
• Adaptable: Ready and able to embrace change

Job Responsibilities

• Independent thinking, drive, energy and enthusiasm — a team player who takes the initiative
• Produce exceptional work for clients and RP3, in multiple media types including, but not limited to, TV, video, print, digital, outdoor, social, collateral, new business
• Provide conceptual thinking and designs; possess the capability to flesh them out across a range of executions
• Partner with copywriters and creative staff to concept and solve problems in bold, fresh, innovative ways
• Create compelling art and design that activates desired target audiences toward our clients’ and RP3’s goals
• Maintain best practices for file and server management, including the consistent application of naming conventions, file/folder organization, versioning control, job slugs, and more
• Maintain client brand guidelines and design standards
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting mutually agreed deadlines
• Maintain important relationships with internal department colleagues and clients to help the agency maintain value and respect
• Possess a positive attitude when working with colleagues, associates, and clients. Be solutions-oriented and supportive in finding solutions to unexpected challenges/requirements

Core Competencies

• Creativity
• Accountability
• Problem Solving
• Communication
• Detail Orientation
• Teamwork

Technical Competencies

• Conceptual Ideation
• Creative Execution — Design and Art Direction Focus

Position/Hours Worked

This is a full-time position. This position regularly requires long hours and occasional weekend work.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

• Bachelor’s degree in related field
• 3-6 years of experience with an advertising or design company
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates design and art direction expertise, originality, innovation, problem-solving, and personal expression
• Work examples should prove you’ve solved business problems. (While we expect you to make beautiful things, your work must also be effective at solving client’s business challenge.)
• Detail oriented, able to work under pressure
• Effective oral, written, and verbal communication skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Proficiency in the entire Adobe Creative Suite and any additional design/art direction tools. Motion Graphics tools and Generative AI a plus.
• Strong interpersonal skills — a team player, positive and innovative thinker.
• Highly motivated and a high level of initiative — ability to work independently when needed, to support the agency’s creative goals and the client’s business objectives.

Summary

The SR Designer at RP3 Agency is part of a design team that creates visual identity for our agency and our clients. We are seeking a highly creative and experienced Senior Graphic Designer to join our creative team. This role creates visuals from concept to execution and ensures that all visual outputs meet the highest standards of excellence. The ideal candidate is a conceptual strategic thinker with a good understanding of design principles and brand development and is capable of translating client goals into impactful visual solutions. The ideal candidate is versatile in both offline and digital environments and is a proponent of AI. The Sr Designer is eager to help create award winning work.

Who You Are

• Creative: Putting together two things to create a third thing no one’s ever seen before
• Productive: Acting on ideas to make things happen and get stuff done
• Proactive can-do spirit: Up-to-date on award winning design work and eager to create award winning ideas
• Collaborative: Focused on the greater good versus personal gain
• Adaptable: Ready and able to embrace change

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead and/or participate in the conceptualization and execution of creative design projects, including advertisements, branding, digital assets, print materials, multimedia content, web design, other offline and online assets.
• Collaborate closely with copywriters, and others, to ensure the brand’s visual identity is consistent and compelling across all channels.
• Create digital and print design for a wide range of materials, including social media graphics, display ads, email templates, brochures, billboards, packaging, and website visuals.
• Design UI and UX for mobile and web design, with a knowledge of development principles.
• Create brand identities and guidelines for brands. Ensure brand consistency for all creative outputs adhere to brand guidelines and standards, while also pushing the creative boundaries to create innovative designs.
• Work with marketing and advertising teams to develop visual strategies for ideas and campaigns that align with client objectives and target audiences.
• Communicate with clients to understand their design needs and translate their vision into effective advertising materials.
• Perform quality work within deadlines or without direct supervision.
• Interact professionally with other employees, clients, and vendors.
• Work effectively as a team contributor on all assignments.
• Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees.
• Balance multiple workloads and deadlines while bringing a passionate, can-do attitude
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, tools, and techniques, and apply new ideas and innovations to projects. Be proactive with AI.

Qualifications

• Experience: Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in graphic design, with at least 2 years in a senior role within an advertising agency or related field.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Visual Communications, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Software Proficiency: Expert-level proficiency in design software, including Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, etc.), and design experience with UX/UI including Figma, Principle, Framer, prototyping, Lottie animations. Front-end development a plus.
• Strong portfolio showcasing expertise in both digital and print design, with a focus on advertising and branding projects. Award winning work a plus.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present and explain ideas to clients and team members.
• Time Management: Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Problem-Solving: Ability to solve design challenges creatively and effectively under tight deadlines.
• Leadership: Ability to lead and mentor younger design teams, foster collaboration, and inspire creative excellence.

Position/Hours Worked
This is a full-time position. Given the nature of marketing, this position requires someone with a strong work ethic and growth mindset. Occasional work outside standard business hours is also expected.

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

What You’ll Do
The Graphic Designer will work closely with the Head of Design to create compelling ideas and solutions that propel the objectives of RP3’s clients. As the Designer, you’ll:

• Work with the creative team to develop interactive and engaging campaigns for digital channels
• Develop logos, conceptualize new branding, and create meticulously crafted brand guidelines
• Develop digital products based on new design concepts, or adapting to an existing system
• Resize/adapt printed materials to different specifications
• Concept, create, and deploy HTML5 ads and other digital assets
• Create engaging brand websites and landing pages
• Design and Develop presentations for RP3, our clients, and prospective clients

Who You Are
A creative thinker, who thrives on developing compelling design systems and has a passion for both digital and print. You push concept boundaries, love design, thrive in a fast-paced environment, stay up-to date with design trends and award winning work, and look for ways to incorporate AI into your practice.

As an ideal candidate, you:

• Are kind, curious, and not afraid to ask questions
• Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision
• Provide multiple solutions to each assignment taking into account any/all restrictions included in art direction.
• Are a team player—you interact professionally with other employees, clients and vendors
• Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees and organizations.
• Take direction and revise concepts, storyboards, or designs according to feedback
• Effectively handle multiple assignments at one time
• Think conceptually with an innovative design approach
• Have fundamental understanding of color theory and imagery
• Have an intense attention to detail. Your designs are meticulous and pixel-perfect.
• Are on top of current trends, human behaviors, and overall brand awareness
• Consistently go the extra mile

Position/Hours Worked
This is a full-time position.

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or degree in a related field
• 4-5 years of design or similar experience in an agency or in-house setting
• Advanced knowledge of the Adobe Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, XD) & Figma
• Design experience working on assets for digital campaigns
• Strong design and composition techniques in producing polished final pieces
• Demonstrated understanding of:
  • Social Media platforms
  • Color theory and color relationships.
  • Typographic terms that identify type forms and the specifications required to refer to typographic settings (i.e., points, leading, picas, kerning, tracking, cap-height, x-height,
  • etc.).
  • Perspective and space relationships.
  • Page composition and grid structures.
  • Print production process and correct disking procedures.
  • Photography and the photographic process.

Preferred but not Required

• Experience with After Effects
• Experience in an agency environment
• 3D design experience
• UI/UX experience

Summary
The Creative Director — Copy is responsible for ensuring the highest level of creativity for the department and agency, consistent with clients’ marketing strategies and objectives. The CD – Copy will lead the creative team from an overall and copywriting perspective while contributing directly to the work as a player-coach type role. A leader who can grow young talent, inspire a team, foster a healthy work culture and inject innovative thinking into every assignment. Responsible for providing the kind of oversight that will lead projects into new creative territories. A strong strategic thinker ready to be hands-on during all phases of a project from concept to execution. The CD — Copy will be involved in business development, ensuring creative quality control for all pitches. The CD — Copy is eager to create and lead award winning work.

Who You Are

• Creative: Putting together two things to create a third thing no one’s ever seen before
• Productive: Acting on ideas to make things happen and get stuff done
• Collaborative: Focused on the greater good versus personal gain
• Adaptable: Ready and able to embrace change

Strategic Goals

Help grow our agency: RP3 Agency’s goal is to grow at least 20% each year and increase our portfolio of “higher profile” brands. The CD will be a key leader in attaining this goal and will participate in an evaluation of the agency’s positioning, messaging, and identity.

Lead a culture of creativity throughout the entire agency: Help lead the creative team, supervising and developing all team members, with an emphasis on the writers. Attract and retain talent within the department. Together with other creative and agency leadership, educate the agency on your creative vision and inspire the agency employees to follow it.

Develop and deliver a high-quality creative product: Collaborate with internal team members and our clients to create award-winning creative work that meets strategic goals. Work with PR to get recognized for that work.

Job Responsibilities

• Help lead the development of the creative product from concept development through production, including contributing directly to the work
• Work to establish a high bar of writing prowess within the creative team through any and all outputs
• Create a positive work environment, meet work expectations, and help set departmental goals
• Create relationships with clients to build trust and sell work in collaboration with other team members
• Develop a collaborative and meaningful relationship with our partners and clients, working closely to innovate/evolve their brand through product or seasonal & yearlong campaigns, generating proactive ideas, and driving awareness & ROI
• Partner with account leadership, strategic planning, media, public relations and technology to deliver integrated, innovative solutions to clients
• Create and present presentations for client meetings and new business pitches
• Keep track of the latest advancements in technologies used in creative direction and understand the progress in marketing technologies
• Make decisions that ensure the organizational profitability without compromising the quality of the project
• Help direct constant improvement in creative quality
• Help manage external contractors (freelancers and production resources)

Director Competencies

• Strategic Thinking
• Conflict Management
• Developing Others
• Entrepreneurship

Core Competencies

• Accountability
• Problem Solving
• Communication
• Detail Orientation
• Teamwork
• Creativity

Technical Competencies

• Conceptual Ideation
• Creative Execution — Writing Focus

Supervisor Responsibilities
The CD — Copy will help lead and manage the creative team with other CD leadership.

Position/Hours Worked
This is a full-time position. This position regularly requires long hours and occasional weekend work.

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Additional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field
• 12+ years with a strong background in advertising — creativity and storytelling around brands and organizations
• Strong Portfolio with recognizable brands and award-winning work
• Leadership and organizational skills
• Effective time management skills
• Creative, insightful, and interested in storytelling and writing
• Working knowledge of all creative advertising roles and expertises, as they pertain to the development of the overall work product (storytelling, writing, a keen eye for art direction, film, digital methodology, branding, etc.)
• Understanding of customer experience methodology, brand management, marketing, advertising, and e-commerce
• Knowledge of relevant computer and web software as it pertains to creative direction and writing exports
• Detail oriented, able to work under pressure
• Effective oral, written, and verbal communication skills
• Excellent presentation skills

Summary
The Senior Copywriter produces bold, strategic, persuasive ideas and messages in all media for Agency clients and for the agency. The Senior Copywriter is conceptual and brings fresh ideas to any project. This role writes copy from conception to completion to promote the sale of goods and service for all kinds of offline and online channels like print, broadcast, video, social, website, digital, and more. The Senior Copywriter is familiar with award winning and inspiring work in the industry.

Who You Are

• Creative: Putting together two things to create a third thing no one’s ever seen before
• Productive: Acting on ideas to make things happen and get stuff done
• Proactive can-do spirit: Up-to-date on award winning design work and eager to create award winning ideas
• Collaborative: Focused on the greater good versus personal gain
• Adaptable: Ready and able to embrace change

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develops concepts in all media
• Writes advertising copy in all media.
• Collaborate with senior art personnel to ensure creation of consistent strategies and original advertising.
• Participates in shaping strategy.
• Detects vital disconnects and informs senior creative personnel prior to beginning copy.
• Delivers presentations to senior creative and/or account personnel.
• Maintains communication with senior art personnel concerning status of jobs.
• Creates and completes projects on time and within budget constraints.

Communication Skills
Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers and other employees of the organization.

Reasoning Ability
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with variables where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Relations, Journalism, Communications or related field required.
• Six or more years of related work experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• Writing experience in all media required.
• Proficiency in MS Office, word processing, spreadsheets, Internet software, E-mail, Database software

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