Art Director

Grounded in a talent-centric mindset, Maker Lab is a marketing agency designed to build decentralised technology-led agency teams, rooted in collaboration with clients from the ground up. Maker Lab's cross-functional teams of multidisciplinary specialists are embedded into client teams across digital marketing competencies - from measurement & analytics to content production.

Job Summary:

We're looking for a culturally tuned Art Director to elevate social-first campaigns for a leading QSR brand. This role blends insight-led thinking and hands-on execution, turning briefs into engaging ideas shaped by culture, trends, and audience behaviour across platforms.

Please share your creative portfolio to be considered for this position.

Role:
* Contribute to campaign ideation and support the development of social-first creative concepts across always-on content, campaigns, and activations.
* Translate ideas into strong visual directions, key visuals, layouts, and content assets across digital platforms.
* Collaborate with copywriters, social strategists, and cross-functional teams to develop integrated creative solutions.
* Create and adapt visual assets for social, digital, CRM, and occasional offline touchpoints.
* Stay tuned into social trends, internet culture, and platform behaviours to inspire relevant creative work.
* Ensure creative outputs are aligned to brand guidelines while supporting the evolution of brand expression.
* Support the execution of campaigns from concept through to delivery, ensuring consistency and quality.
* Work closely with stakeholders to interpret briefs and refine creative outputs based on feedback.
* Manage multiple tasks and deadlines while maintaining attention to detail and craft quality.
* Support internal reviews and quality checks to ensure all deliverables meet creative standards.
You:
* BA/BS degree or equivalent experience
* 5+ years of experience in an Art Director, Designer, or Social Creative role.
* A strong portfolio demonstrating integrated campaign thinking, social-first creativity and high-quality visual execution.
* Deep understanding of social platforms, digital culture and audience behaviour.
* Able to move seamlessly between strategic thinking, creative ideation and hands-on execution.
* Strong visual storytelling skills with the ability to bring ideas to life across multiple formats and touchpoints.
* Comfortable collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and navigating stakeholder feedback.
* Experience working within agency, social, integrated marketing or in-house creative environments is highly preferred.
* Exceptional verbal and written English communication and presentation skills.
Please note: due to the high volume of applications, only successful candidates will be contacted with a follow-up introduction email. If you do not receive an email from Maker Lab, your application has been unsuccessful this time around. Look out for future roles! By submitting your application, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your data by the Maker Lab team for the purposes of your application. Where your application contains personal data of third parties, you confirm that you have obtained all necessary consents to provide the Maker Lab team with such personal data and that we may collect, use and/or disclose such data in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012.