Art Director

Required Experience and Qualifications

• Experience:

4+ years in digital and print design

• Qualification: We need smart brains not certified ones. We look for creative people, not degrees.

• Timings: 10:30 AM - 6:30 PM (Monday - Friday)

• Job Type: Full-time in-office

• Job Location: Bengaluru/Bangalore

• Vacancy: 1 person

• Please note: The salary range will change if you don't fall under the bracket of 4 years of experience in the digital and print design industry.

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• Job Summary

Mellow Designs is a branding and digital marketing studio. We handcraft and grow brands with our services, which include designing logos from scratch to building a complete visual identity, website design, advertising, social media marketing, media planning, photography, and videos. We also provide consultation and strategic business development solutions for our clients.

We're a small yet mighty team of designers, artists, and writers. Rohit Dhongade, founder and creative director, founded Mellow Designs in 2018 as he observed the dire need for creative, high-quality design. We still believe in the same values. We focus on quality over quantity. This has led us to work with some of the renowned brands in a very short span of time. We join hands with people who work for creative satisfaction and not just for money.

• Our Clients:

3M, Helios, Titan, Bosch, Gold's Gym, Puravankara, Provident, Nandu's, Zoomcar, Spar, Indira's, Quess, Hairline, Indira's Food, Embassy, Himalaya, Dotpe, Himalaya, to name a few.

• Our website:

www.mellowdesigns.co

• We're looking for:

A skilled Associate Creative Director based in Bangalore (or ready to move).

• Has a good understanding of the end-to-end branding and visual Identity processes and knows the exact amount of time and effort needed in each step.

Has a good understanding of graphic design principles and typography.

• Has experience in leading a team of designers and guiding the design process.

Capable of designing and guiding and an expert in all creative cloud apps.

• If you're good at photography and video shoots, it's a bonus on your salary.

• Your role:

Developing a visual language from scratch for branding projects. This includes forming a questionnaire to execute each bit of the brand with the team till making the brand guidelines.

• Setting up a brand language and designing its collateral is a key ability of yours.

Partner closely with the Creative Director to come up with creative concepts for advertising campaigns.

• You need to have the capabilities to bring in a great experience for the customer journey. You have to think of design in all mediums. How the brand would look and feel in-store, on the website, and on the ads. Each bit of it should be well thought out.

Bringing in new experiences or ideas for brands and establishing a high recall value for them must be a key intent while branding.

• You will be coordinating with external vendors/resources and managing the execution of the design projects.

You will be monitoring and directing the photography projects.

• You need to bring new ideas to the table and not copy stuff from other places.

You will be leading a team and coordinating with them to execute your ideas which are discussed with the creative director or your senior.

• You have to assign tasks to your team on an everyday basis on the ClickUp App and make sure that they are on track with the timelines.

You have to make sure that you maintain the quality of the work by implementing the right systems in place.

• You have to coordinate with an account manager who will be communicating with the client to arrange the brief calls. You have to take the briefs directly or assign people from your team so that you don't lose out on the quality of the work.

You have to visit the client's place to plan the execution of the designs.

• Keep up to date with the latest trends. You should at least be following awwwards.com, Behance, creative bloq, etc. Sourcing custom & quality design references for the client should be a piece of cake for you.

• Skills:

Must:

• Adobe Photoshop

Illustrator

Add-on: Figma

• After Effects

Premier Pro

• What you get to learn:

You will work with international brands and understand the workflow and quality expected by them.

• How to execute your ideas quickly. Your senior is a hack-master, so you get to learn all the shortcuts to finish the work smartly instead of taking long routes.

You will get a chance to learn the complete process of branding how to execute it on a technical level.

• You will learn leadership skills and how to execute your ideas with a team.

• What will help you bond with us

You have great taste in music. We love Lumineers and Coldplay.

• Original ideas over inspired ideas. Show us your sketchbook, not just the portfolio.

You are capable of executing tasks without being bossed/babied.

• Chill and work. But getting work done as per the timeline. We do not entertain excuses.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 50,

• 00 - 85,000.00 per month
  
  Jadwal:
• Day shift

Monday to Friday
Tunjangan:

• Flexible schedule

Health insurance

• Paid time off

Provident Fund
Upah Tambahan:

• Performance bonus

* Quarterly bonus

• Yearly bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Indira Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Application Question(s):

• Please share your portfolio link.

Education:

• Master's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Total: 5 years (Required)

Work Location: In person

Expected Start Date: 11/08/2024