Art Director

About the role

VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML's specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world's largest and most awarded health agencies. VML's global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney. About WPP WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company - powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com . We're looking for a Junior Art Director who is eager to learn, craft, and contribute to high-quality creative across digital, social, video, print, and experiential. You'll support concepting and execution, help maintain brand consistency, and collaborate closely with designers, copywriters, producers, and external partners. This role blends hands-on design with developing art-direction skills under mentorship from senior creatives.

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing visual concepts, mood boards, and style frames for campaigns and content.
• Produce layouts, social assets, presentation decks, and simple motion edits aligned with brand guidelines.
• Prepare files for production: slicing/exporting assets, managing versions, and ensuring specs and accessibility basics are met.
• Help build and maintain brand systems, libraries, and style guides across platforms.
• Participate in shoots and post-production as needed: sourcing references, shot lists, selects, and retouch notes.
• Collaborate with copywriters to create cohesive art-and-copy solutions; iterate quickly based on feedback.
• Present work internally with clear rationale and openness to critique; incorporate stakeholder feedback thoughtfully.
• Support quality control: typography, color, composition, image selection, and file accuracy.
• Manage tasks across multiple projects, hitting deadlines and communicating risks early.

Requirements

• 1-3 years of experience in visual design or art direction (agency or in-house). Strong internship/freelance experience considered.
• Portfolio demonstrating solid fundamentals in typography, layout, color, and brand application across digital and social.
• Familiarity with integrated campaign work and content creation for paid/organic social.
• Understanding of basic production workflows (digital specs, print/prepress fundamentals, simple motion/video deliverables).
• Responsabilités principales
• Contribuer à l'élaboration de concepts visuels, de moodboards et de style frames pour les campagnes et les contenus.
• Produire des mises en page, des assets pour les réseaux sociaux, des présentations et des montages simples en motion design, en respectant les guidelines de la marque.
• Préparer les fichiers pour la production : découpe/export des assets, gestion des versions et vérification du respect des spécifications ainsi que des notions de base en accessibilité.
• Aider à construire et à maintenir les systèmes de marque, bibliothèques et chartes graphiques sur l'ensemble des plateformes.
• Participer aux shootings et à la postproduction selon les besoins : recherche de références, listes de plans, sélections et retours de retouche.
• Collaborer avec les rédacteurs pour créer des solutions cohérentes mêlant direction artistique et contenu rédactionnel ; itérer rapidement en fonction des retours.
• Présenter le travail en interne avec une argumentation claire et une ouverture à la critique ; intégrer les retours des parties prenantes avec discernem

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