Senior Art Director

At AKQA, a Most Loved Workplace® certified employer in the Advertising/Marketing/Public Relations space, Design and innovation transforming ideas into world-changing impact.

<p>At AKQA Amsterdam, we use creativity to help brands and businesses move forward. Sometimes that means telling a better story. Sometimes it means designing a new experience, creating a new identity or imagining something that didn’t exist before. We follow the idea wherever it takes us, bringing different people and disciplines together to make it real.</p>

<p>As a Senior Art Director, you take ownership of ideas and the worlds they create. You find compelling ways into complex briefs, establish the creative and visual approach, and take responsibility for developing an idea from first thought through to final expression.</p>

<p>You think beyond the immediate ask, exploring what an idea could become and bringing the right people together to make it better. You bring a distinct point of view while making space for other perspectives, and know when to protect an idea, when to evolve it and when to find a better direction.</p>

<p>Your judgement raises the standard of the work, your direction creates momentum, and your craft makes ambitious ideas real.</p>

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<p><strong>ROLE REQUIREMENTS</strong></p>

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<li><strong>Own the idea.</strong> Take responsibility for ideas within a brief, driving them from first thought through final execution while protecting what makes them strong as they evolve.</li>

<li><strong>Find the opportunity.</strong> Find compelling and unexpected ways into complex problems, looking beyond the immediate brief to explore where an idea could go and what it could become.</li>

<li><strong>Be versatile.</strong> Shape ideas across stories, identities, services and experiences rather than defaulting to a familiar format or output.</li>

<li><strong>Set the craft standard.</strong> Bring a high standard of conceptual thinking, art direction and design craft, c

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