• Define and evolve Metalab's product and brand design vision. • Coach senior design leaders and project teams. • Model creative excellence in your own work. • Own design quality across the department, offering constructive feedback. • Guide strategic direction across brand and product design engagements. • Oversee, create and refine brand systems that work seamlessly into product experiences. • Push creative boundaries by integrating motion, 3D, and interaction design. • Lead cross-disciplinary reviews. • Collaborate with design leadership to influence design department direction. • Represent Metalab in the design community through thought leadership and speaking opportunities.

• Own and evolve Marigold’s visual brand identity system, including brand strategy, design system documentation, guidelines, components, and standards to ensure consistency across products and customer touchpoints. • Set creative strategy and direction while personally producing high-impact assets including digital advertising campaigns, website design and updates, email campaigns, sales presentations, social content, and event materials. • Partner with Marketing and Product leadership to translate business objectives and product growth initiatives into compelling, measurable creative campaigns. • Collaborate with UI/UX leaders to establish and maintain product UI brand standards, ensuring cohesive visual identity across software experiences. • Vet, hire, brief, and manage external creative contractors and agencies, including scope definition, timeline management, budget oversight, and quality control. • Present creative concepts and strategic rationale to executive stakeholders, providing creative leadership across cross-functional teams while balancing strategic vision with hands-on execution.

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description Art Directors at MAS are our spatial designers ready to help translate any concept into reality. They have a keen eye for detail, are adept at creative problem solving, and deeply understand the connection between physical environment and user journey. - Responsible for running with a project’s creative north star and helping develop supporting creative deliverables. - Deliverables include: - Thoughtful mood boards - Clear floor plans and elevations - Compelling renderings - Clean build drawings and 3D models - Onsite responsibilities include managing builds and ensuring quality expectations are met by vendors. - Overcommunicate and collaborate closely with the project’s creative team and production. - Manage relationships with scenic partners to guide and keep them on track with the project vision. - Organizational and time management skills are essential; become creative project leads once a concept has taken shape. - Help organize and prioritize action items, delegate tasks to Associate Art Directors, and prepare for client presentations. Qualifications - A portfolio of recent work showcasing renderings and drawings. - 4+ years of proven spatial design experience at an agency. - Passion for creating bold experiences. - Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced industry. - Strong written and verbal interpersonal communication and presentation skills. - Self-motivated with a strong sense of get-shit-done attitude. - Ability to help keep a project team motivated. - Mastery of one or more of the following 3D design programs: SketchUp, Rhino, C4D, Blender. - Mastery of a render program such as Enscape, Twinmotion, Lumion, Vray. - Ability to use Photoshop and Illustrator. - Familiarity with Figma. - Proficiency using Google Workspace suite. Requirements - Expressing a look and feel for an event - from emotion to material. - Creating floor plans, furniture layouts, and diagrams. - Producing build drawings and 3D models to hand off to scenic partners. - Generating realistic renderings that help clients see our vision. - Furniture & decor sourcing and direction. - Managing scenic partners to ensure quality and accuracy. - Providing onsite creative oversight and art direction. - Presenting to clients when needed. Benefits - Full-time position. - Opportunities for growth and development. - Health & Dental Insurance (choice of plans). - 100% Employer paid short-term disability and life insurance. - Opportunity to elect additional life insurance and LTD insurance at employee expense. - Paid parental leave. - Opportunity to contribute pre-tax dollars to flexible spending accounts. - 401(K) with employer match. - Flexibility in work schedules. - Generous time off.

Apartment Therapy was originally launched in 2001 by interior designer Maxwell Ryan (nicknamed “The Apartment Therapist”) as a weekly newsletter for clients. We officially became an independently-owned company in 2004, and since then Apartment Therapy Media has grown to become the only media group dedicated to life at home. We are committed to teaching our audience real-life solutions by giving them tools to create happy, healthy homes through our award-winning brands: Apartment Therapy, The Kitchn, Cubby, and Dorm Therapy. Together, our portfolio engages a monthly audience of 47 million users across platforms, while our dedicated team of over 140 professionals collaborates from our sunny New York City office and locations across the U.S. and around the globe. AT Media frequently works with freelance designers , art directors , and illustrators to support our Editorial Art Department across our family of brands, including Apartment Therapy, The Kitchn, Cubby, and Dorm Therapy. While we do not currently have any freelance positions available , if you are interested in being considered for future freelance opportunities, please submit your application and portfolio here. Please note that this listing is for visual graphic design and illustration opportunities only. Journalists, copywriters and editors will not be considered. Thank you. Apartment Therapy Media is an equal opportunity employer that works to foster diversity and inclusion. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, gender identity, orientation, religion, parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.