🎨 Art Director

Visionary creative leader, ready to shape bold, innovative designs.

You

Creative leader with a zeal for lifelong learning. Strong back, soft front, kind heart, open mind, keen logic, clear communicator and great collaborator. You have an eye for detail, a passion for aesthetics, and a relentless drive for creative excellence. Office politics and bureaucracy? Not your thing. You thrive in open, direct and entrepreneurial cultures that bring out your best.

You love crafting compelling visuals, guiding creative teams, and bringing ideas to life. You are eager to showcase your artistic vision and lead projects that push creative boundaries.
 

We

A creative agency in the messy middle. Building a global creative championship team for an epic purpose and equally epic clientele. Big logos, small egos. High autonomy, low turnover. Diverse by nature, not policy. Take work seriously and ourselves lightly.

What will you do?

At Pixel Dreams, the Art Director has a rich visual vocabulary and raw inspiration at their command — and understands how to use it to create a design or concept for their clients. You’re curious and strategic, with a mastery of visual language and will use your design chops to bring ideas to life across different media. Best of all, you thrive leading other designers, managing client expectations, and collaborating with other disciplines to ensure the overall project success. You’ll report to the Creative Director, who will guide you and help you grow, both creatively and on your career path.
 

Qualifications

5+ years of experience in a creative role, at least one as an Art Director, with a history of leading creative projects.

Skills

• Exceptional design vision: You generate original and compelling visual concepts with a sharp eye for brand and design — including typography, colour, composition, and layout — and ensure that they’re meeting brand and accessibility standards across a variety of media.
• Impressive portfolio: A portfolio that showcases a variety of work across different media (print, digital, video, etc.), demonstrating your versatility, conceptual vision and technical skill.
• Understanding of branding and marketing: You’re able to develop designs that are not only visually appealing but also aligned with the client’s brand standards.
• Highly organized: You have great time-management skills, not only making the most of your valuable time, but ensuring your team is set up for success. And your file structure and labelling is as impressive as your design.
• Tools and Software: Strong knowledge of industry-standard design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, G-Suite and Slack (our internal work platforms). Knowledge of After Effects and experience using AI tools is an asset.

Mindset

• Innovative thinker: You love to geek out about design trends, and bring fresh, bold ideas that set your work apart from the run-of-the-mill. You’re excited about what AI will bring to your creative capabilities.
• Team Player: Experience leading creative teams, mentoring designers, and providing constructive feedback to ensure high-quality deliverables. In addition, you are a great collaborator with the Account Leads, Devs and other non-design stakeholders on your projects.
• Client-focused: You love clients and make them love you. You’re an engaging presenter, and listen to feedback while managing expectations. You know when to bend and when to push back, but are always focused on developing creative solutions that meet your clients’ goals.
• Problem-solver: Capable of solving creative challenges on the spot, managing creative blocks, or finding solutions to meet tight deadlines.

Time and Place

We recognize that everyone’s life responsibilities are different, and accommodates a flexible working model. However, we require our successful candidate to maintain core business hours and be in our Downtown Toronto or North York workspaces a minimum 3 days a week — ideally more.
 

What is Pixel Dreams anyway?

We’re a small but thriving marketing and design agency, continuing to grow our team with an epic purpose and equally epic clients. Many agencies pride themselves on their storytelling, but it’s literally baked into our DNA (ask us about our children’s books). We are innovative and creative souls who create print, online and video pieces, working with clients who love us (and we love them). Our studios are in downtown Toronto (Queen St W), The Junction, North York (Yonge & Sheppard), and Hanoi, Vietnam (a bit of a commute).
 

Compensation

From $80K to $110K, negotiable and relative to demonstrated capabilities and competencies. We also offer a full benefits package, generous vacation allocation and a positive working environment.
 

Opportunities

Boundless. How big will you dream? How high will you aim? How far will you go?