Art Director

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Job Description

The Art Director will be responsible for creating fresh and engaging content for People Inc.’s Visit California account. This individual will have exceptional team collaboration creativity typography design sense troubleshooting and storytelling skills to create compelling and innovative magazine layouts and digital design content.

The Art Director must possess an ability to conceptualize the visual components of a story and execute them from start to finish including formulating pitches planning photography and illustration creating story layouts and communicating ideas and schedules with management freelance teams and story editors.

The position will be responsible for working with the client to develop photo orders and oversee photoshoots. The ability to create visually dynamic solutions for onset and location photography is a must. Building the client’s photo library and growing the PITC digital asset management system.

The Art Director will be responsible for researching beautiful and inspiring images for several sections of the magazine and digital tentpoles. The job will have a strong research component of finding existing photos of locations around the world – both scenic shots and service such as hotels restaurants shops etc. for print and digital. The position involves intense multi-tasking and working on projects both short and long term simultaneously. 

The individual must have experience identifying and hiring appropriate freelance illustrators stylists and photographers while adhering to a strict calendar licensing agreements/releases and budget.

The position assists with production duties such as schedule tracking within appropriate platforms and process development and preparing files for pre-press and press production.

Being a self-starter ambitious positive team player and organized are all must-have qualities along with a strong eye for detail and the ability to work efficiently while juggling multiple projects.

Remote-

In-office Expectations: This position is fully remote with no in-office requirements (might require coming into an office 1 or 2x a year)

About The Positions Contributions:

Weight % Accountabilities Actions and Expected Measurable Results

• 25% Maintain the high standards and visual integrity of Visit California including photo planning and research with editors to create inspiring location photography by utilizing strong and decisive art direction skills.

• 25% Managing coordinating organizing and researching photos. Helping to manage photo and art budgets. Seeking out new local and regional talent.

• 25% Strong design typographical sensibilities and graphic/creative problem-solving abilities for magazine layouts and digital projects.

• 15% Able to multitask meet deadlines and be a strong communicator with photographers editors art directors illustrators photography sources and the PITC Imaging Center.

• 10% Executes all additional duties as requested by Visit California and possible travel.

The Role’s Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design or related field or equivalent training and/or experience.

Experience:

• Minimum 5+ years media design experience.

Specific Knowledge Skills Certifications and Abilities:

• Thorough knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite Woodwing content management systems AirTable Slack and Google docs.

• Strong typography and layout design skills - both formatted and unique feature stories.

• Ability to communicate with photo teams photographers and stylists.

• Ability to create innovative photo plans for photo shoots.

• Ability to adhere to art team guidelines brand style guides and departmental processes.

• Ability to work in a team-oriented environment.

• Attention to detail.

% Travel Required (Approximate):  5%

It is the policy of People Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law. In addition the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be made by emailing [email protected].

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Pay Range

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location experience and performance. The range listed is just one component of People Inc's total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses and short- and long-term incentives. In addition People Inc. provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits including medical dental vision prescription drug coverage unlimited paid time off (PTO) adoption or surrogate assistance donation matching tuition reimbursement basic life insurance basic accidental death & dismemberment supplemental life insurance supplemental accident insurance commuter benefits short term and long term disability health savings and flexible spending accounts family care benefits a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program 10-12 paid holidays annually and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents) all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with People Inc. and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance accident critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage life and disability insurance.

What We Do

People Inc. is America’s largest digital and print publisher. Our 40+ iconic and fast-growing brands harness the best intent-driven content the fastest sites and the fewest ads to help nearly 200 million people every month including 95 percent of US women make decisions take action and find inspiration. People Inc. brands include PEOPLE Better Homes & Gardens Verywell FOOD & WINE The Spruce Allrecipes Byrdie REAL SIMPLE Investopedia Southern Living and more.

Why Work With Us

People Inc. has a people-first mentality - our audience our employees our teams. We take our role of providing the best content across the best brands very seriously and we are always looking to make sure that our teams have the space to be creative innovate and try out new things.

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