Join EY, a global leader, and build a career that’s as unique as you are. We offer unparalleled scale, support, an inclusive culture, and cutting-edge technology to help you reach your full potential. Your distinct perspective is vital in helping EY evolve and foster a better working world for everyone. EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) collaborates closely with the business to champion our services and solutions. We bring our purpose of building a better working world to life for our people, clients, and communities, while engaging our teams and cultivating a high-performing culture. Our aim is to enhance the commercial value and emotional resonance of the EY and GDS brands.

The EY GDS Creative Center of Excellence (CoE) operates as an in-house agency, dedicated to assisting EY teams in creating a better working world. We achieve this by delivering creative solutions that are impactful, high-quality, and consistently on-brand. Our team members craft experiences that are not only creatively inspiring but also strategically precise and deeply human, across a multitude of media platforms.

As a Senior Art Director, you will embody a fusion of creative vision and strategic acumen, leading our team as a robust creative strategist and a design thought leader. You will spearhead the creative and visual direction for design across various collateral formats, ensuring all outputs are on-brand, user-centric, and aesthetically excellent. With a passion for problem-solving and strategic creativity, you will lead brainstorms with stakeholders and marketing teams to develop best-in-class creatives aligned with EY's brand and business objectives. Your refined aesthetic and design sensibility will position you as a versatile leader capable of elevating any creative concept, storyboard, or direction for multi-channel projects.

Key contributions include understanding the impact of creative ideas and delivering memorable concepts that shape audience perception and engagement. You will mentor and train the broader team, elevating GDS Creative Services from design execution to leading with brand-building and distinct creative strategies. Experience leading teams in creative agencies or in-house brand departments, particularly with high-visibility campaigns for top global brands, is essential. You will provide creative leadership to design teams for diverse collaterals, including brochures, infographics, presentations, and social media assets. Producing strategically sound conceptual work, bringing it to life through rapid prototyping and storyboarding, and overseeing post-production are critical. Adhering to EY brand guidelines and exceeding expectations in quality, turnaround time, budget, and efficiency is paramount. Staying abreast of design and industry trends and advocating for them within the team and to clients is expected. You will offer creative and art direction support, resolving issues collaboratively. Proactively identifying opportunities to leverage pop culture trends and innovative techniques to enhance user experiences is key. Effectively communicating with diverse client groups, understanding design briefs, and sharing ideas clearly are vital. Leading project discussions with a customer-centric approach and providing unique, innovative design solutions will be central to your role. Prioritizing deadlines and managing multiple projects concurrently, while contributing to organizational initiatives, are also important aspects of this position.

A user-centric approach combined with creative, innovative, and analytical thinking is fundamental. Working knowledge of creating infographics and data visualization techniques is beneficial. Exceptional project, risk, and team management skills are required. A proven history of delivering high-quality work on time and within budget is essential. An innovative mindset capable of transforming client challenges into compelling creative solutions is necessary. Excellent comprehension, verbal, and written communication skills, along with strong interpersonal abilities for persuasion, are vital. Exceptional attention to detail is expected. A solid understanding of current and future visual trends is a must.

To qualify for this role, a Bachelor's degree or college diploma, preferably in Graphic Design or a related field, is required. Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign, along with Adobe DC and Microsoft Office Suite (PowerPoint, Word, Excel), is essential. Experience across a variety of digital, social, and integrated media is necessary. Familiarity with social platforms such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and Pinterest is expected. Strong visual design and creative thinking capabilities are paramount. A minimum of 12 years of overall experience in a fast-paced global environment is required, along with prior art direction experience in leading agencies.

Ideally, you will also possess working knowledge of other key software and tools relevant to the industry. We seek individuals with strong business acumen paired with creative vision. A creative problem-solving mindset with a flexible, can-do attitude is highly valued. A growth mindset, eager to collaborate, ideate, and deliver breakthrough work, is important. Experience in leading and managing creative teams, including developing junior talent, is beneficial. Self-starters who embrace challenges and drive significant outcomes through teamwork are encouraged. Experience working with global clients is advantageous. Confidence, maturity, and the ability to build strong client relationships are key. A strong team player comfortable with collaborative work is essential.