Art Director

Art Director - Redondo Beach, CA (Hybrid)

Marquee Brands

Marquee owns and manages a portfolio of established global brands across consumer products and channels from luxury goods to sports and active apparel. Marquee’s team of professionals is focused on a commitment to drive organic growth through natural brand extensions, impactful marketing, and direct consumer engagement. Our promise is to ensure our brands continue their storied success through relevant product, expanded retail distribution, and international growth all while continuing to be true to their founding message and origin.

Job Summary:

The Art Director, Sports and Active brands, leads all creative brand direction for Dakine and Body Glove. This position has creative oversite on annual and seasonal brand guidelines, styleguides, content creation, campaign creative, e-commerce consumer experience, wholesale display support and social media platforms. The role creates and directs all marketing materials. The role collaborates with the VP of Global Marketing and the Product Marketing Manager to execute all photo and video content, directing and briefing product and lifestyle photoshoots. This role acts as the project manager for all creative tasks using Asana and well as gatekeeper of DAM for all digital output.

Location:

• Redondo Beach, CA

Reporting Relationships

• VP of Global Marketing, Sports and Active Brands

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Manage one graphic designer and retained videographers and photographers

Duties/ Responsibilities:

• Oversee all creative brand direction for Dakine and Body Glove.
• Develop and communicate a cohesive and forward-thinking color, materials, and finishes strategy that aligns with the brand's identity, target audience, and market trends.
• Maintain brand standards across strategic briefs.
• Consult with VP of Global Marketing to ensure consistent brand vision and direction.
• Collaborates with internal departments as needed on campaign launches or specialized projects.
• Development of all brand books, brand guidelines, and style guides.
• Build out seasonal roadmaps, which provide a forward-looking view across the entirety of the brand’s digital GTM.
• Art direction on seasonal campaigns for both Body Glove and Dakine
• Prepare all sales and marketing presentations for retailer and sales meetings.
• Responsible for maintaining digital asset management across platforms.
• Manage all approvals for licensee’s marketing assets
• Develop shot list and direction for all seasonal photoshoots
• Project management of all creative and marketing tasks in Asana.
• Manage the organization of all photo and video assets
• Project management of all digital tasks in Asana.
• UX/UI experience is a plus.
• Shopify experience is a plus for creating landing pages and homepage designs.
• Packaging design experience. Able to showcase creative direction to partners and licensees.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Strong Portfolio showcasing a wide range of design skills.
• Digital first thinker, ideally in a brand/direct-to-consumer space.
• Skilled creative thinker, strategically, conceptually & analytically.
• Ability to think outside the box and visually bring to life in storytelling.
• Excellent layout design skills.
• Entrepreneur who creates custom designs on trend and trend setting.
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite and Canva
• Extremely organized with attention to detail.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree required; major or significant coursework in Art, Graphic Design, or related disciplines highly preferred.
• 8+ years in Art Director experience. In-house brand or creative agency.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.
• Available to travel for photoshoots.

Marquee Brands Benefits and Perks

• You'll enjoy coming to work because we have a refreshing company culture that is open, entrepreneurial, and fun.
• Competitive salary, and bonus structure
• 401k match
• Healthcare Benefits including dental and vision
• Flexible spending account (FSA) or health savings account (HSA)
• Life insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Generous Vacation and Leave Policies
• Action Days - two (2) fully paid “Marquee In Action" days each calendar year to dedicate your time to a charity or cause of your choice.
• 11 Paid Holidays: In addition to Paid vacation.

Salary Range: $100,000-$120,000

This job description may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described, and may be amended at anytime at the sole discretion of the Employer .

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.