Art Director

Cultural Care Au Pair is seeking an **Art Director** to join our in-house creative team. In this role, you'll be a creative force driving exceptional visual work. You will be both a visionary and an innovative thinker, capable of fostering and conceiving brilliant visual concepts while understanding how they contribute to our growth.

Your role will involve collaborating with a cross-functional team to deliver innovative and compelling visual solutions that meet project objectives and elevate brand identity. To excel in this role, you must be a skilled designer who can deliver outstanding creative concepts and ensure consistency in design across all media. Our role spans all channels, from creating high-quality digital campaigns and websites to compelling offline creative assets.

As part of our truly global team, you’ll work from our Zurich office, regularly collaborating with our team in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

**Who you are**

You are deeply passionate about visual creativity. Collaborating with other creatives and your ability to inspire, identify, and nurture the best visual ideas through execution is what drives you. You thrive in open and collaborative environments, fostering teams that are supportive and empowering.

You embrace the unknown with enthusiasm, eagerly exploring new ideas rather than relying on established norms. You see technology as a tool to enhance creativity and are adept at learning and adapting to new creative technologies, media platforms, and trends.

You are both a conceptual thinker and a hands-on contributor, unafraid to dive into tasks in a collaborative setting. You are also an agile thinker who can seamlessly transition between diverse projects.

Sound like you? Keep reading...

**Your Responsibilities**
- Provide art direction for creative projects, spanning content creation and brand development (brand expression and graphic design).
- Art direction and design production of all marketing materials, both digital and print.
- Conceptualize and collaborate on campaign ideas, digital strategies, and other marketing initiatives with the creative team.
- Develop innovative solutions for a digital landscape, advancing our program and services in the digital era to meet our customers' expectations.
- Collaborate with marketing directors, sales directors, and the executive team to gather input and ensure stakeholder requirements are met.
- Art direction video and photo shoots, ensuring briefs are aligned with project objectives and creative vision.

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Digital Media, or related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience within an agency or in-house marketing team.
- A portfolio showcasing a diverse range of creative work demonstrating your mastery of visual design
- A deep understanding of visual design, art direction, interaction design, and the creative process.
- Experience in UX/UI design principles and front-end development technologies
- Up-to-date knowledge of emerging communication, media consumption, marketing, and cultural trends.
- Experience with art direction within video/photo shoot productions is a plus.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

**Requirements**:
Fluency in English (both written and spoken), with proficiency in other languages considered advantageous.
- Please note, that only applicants with accompanying portfolios will be considered._

***About Cultural Care Au Pair
**We are proud to be the largest and most experienced au pair organization in the world, having successfully placed more than 120,000 au pairs into welcoming American homes since 1989. Our program is strictly regulated by the Department of State and our dedicated staff work together to ensure each participant has the experience of a lifetime.

Cultural Care Au Pair is associated with EF Education First, the world leader in international education. At EF we believe that the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, we have helped millions of people see new places, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and about themselves. Our culturally immersive education programs—focused on language, travel, cultural exchange, and academics—turn dreams into international opportunities.

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