Commercial Art Director, HearstMade

Overview

As Commercial Art Director, you will lead the visual execution and creative delivery for branded campaigns across Hearst Made, ensuring quality and consistency. You’ll translate strategy into compelling visuals across print, digital, social and video, while guiding the art function’s workflow and talent development. You’ll oversee branding and communications to maintain a cohesive visual identity across departments and platforms. Mentoring and collaborative leadership will be central as you drive creative excellence and business impact.

Pay / Benefits

• Health and wellbeing support
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Gym membership discounts
• Salary sacrifice pension
• Life assurance and income protection
• Employee discounts and perks

Responsibilities

• Lead visual execution and creative excellence for Hearst Made campaigns across print, digital, social and video
• Art direct and design across Hearst brands and communications to maintain consistent visual identity
• Lead commercial shoots from concept to final execution, including treatments and moodboards
• Manage creative delivery, resources and external talent, coordinating with Producers and Project Managers to hit time, budget and quality targets
• Oversee workflow, prioritisation and talent development within the art function, including mentoring the Art Editor and broader team
• Foster collaboration with editorial teams to keep content authentic to each brand and maintain creative integrity
• Shape creative culture, processes and standards, driving innovation and maintaining Hearst values

Key requirements

• Proven experience in art direction across editorial, branded content and commercial environments
• Strong portfolio showing concept-to-delivery excellence
• Experience leading stills and video shoots from pre-production to final execution
• Understanding of print, digital, social and video production
• Experience mentoring and developing creative talent
• Clear creative direction and constructive feedback
• Strong stakeholder management and client-facing capabilities
• Commercially minded with ability to balance creative aims with business objectives
• Highly organised with ability to manage multiple projects
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and relevant tools
• Understanding of Hearst brands and ability to craft authentic work

• collaborative
• adaptable
• solutions-focused
• Adobe Creative Suite
• visual storytelling
• brand identity development

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