Job Title Art Director
Job Description Art Director, Simply RecipesAbout Your Role Simply Recipes is seeking a full-time art director to join our team. This position will serve as the creative lead for Simply Recipes, overseeing the creation of high-quality photography, graphic designs, illustrations, and other art assets with the goal of supporting brand distinction and audience engagement. This position would be ideal for a candidate with graphic design skills, illustration know-how, and a love for food and cooking. This position reports to the Associate General Manager of Simply Recipes.
As a food website that reaches millions per month, we have the power and responsibility to create positive change. We are focusing our hiring efforts on diversity, equity, and inclusion and building a team that reflects our dedication to these principles at every level of our organization.
Your Responsibilities:- Oversee the brand visuals on all platforms, driving the creative vision and strategy for Simply Recipes, including social *** channels and video
- Supervise the day-to-day operations of the art department
- Manage and mentor direct reports (visual editors), helping them to achieve meaningful contribution and growth.
- Partner with internal departments, including the Brand Design team, VAT (Visuals Asset Team), Dotdash *** Food *** , and video *** to produce high quality visual assets and videos
- Collaborate with editorial and internal design teams on visual needs for feature stories, spotlights, and tentpole packages.
- Oversee assigning and production of photography assignments, including occasional top-level final edits (cropping, color touching, and light balancing)
- Oversee development of visual assets for onsite content and social platforms. This may include storyboarding, creating mood boards, writing creative briefs, creating templates for recurring series, and assisting with graphic design.
- Recruit freelance talent to help bring new perspectives and voices to the brand, including photographers, illustrators/artists, and designers
- Manage photography budget, including internal tracking and invoicing.
About You:- Degree in graphic design, photography, visual arts, or multi *** design
- High proficiency in the use of Adobe Creative Suite, Figma (or other design-sharing software), and Invision.
- 5-7 years working in *** , digital preferred, with experience in photography and graphic design
- Strong visual skills, particularly in evaluating art/photography for publication from a brand/style perspective, assessing color, lighting, composition, technical qualities, etc
- Strong understanding of the photography process from photoshoot to post-processing, and technical understanding of digital cameras and terminology
- Illustration background a plus, especially with incorporating freehand and digital illustration techniques into design.
- Love of food and cooking is a plus.
- Playful approach to your work, pursuing joy through visuals, illuminating the content through warm, fun-filled imagery and design.
- An eagle eye for detail and a very high level of organization
- Flexibility and collaborative work is a cornerstone for how our company operates. Candidates must have a growth mindset toward new projects and challenges, and feel comfortable sharing ownership, giving and receiving feedback, and working within a team structure.
- Simply Recipes is a remote team. Candidates must be adept at communicating and growing relationships over Slack and Zoom with only occasional in-person team gatherings. Strong written communication skills required for communication with freelancers and other collaborators within Dotdash *** .
About Simply Recipes Simply Recipes is here to help you cook delicious meals with less stress and more joy. We offer recipes and cooking ad *** for home cooks, by home cooks . Helping provide "kitchen wins" is the whole reason we're here.
Simply Recipes was founded in 2003 by Elise Bauer as a home cooking blog to record her favorite family recipes. Today, Simply Recipes has grown into an invaluable, trusted resource for home cooks with more than 3,000 tested recipes, guides, and meal plans, and new content publishing daily. The site draws over 15 million readers each month from around the world, employs a team of full-time editors, and is supported by a diverse group of recipe developers, food writers, recipe and product testers, photographers, and other creative professionals.
It is the policy of *** Operations Corporation ("Dotdash *** ", "the Company") to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be made by emailing ddm.[Please reply using Staff Me Up] .
The Company requires employees entering its workplaces, performing work offsite, or attending a company sponsored event to verify and provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination. The Company will consider requests for reasonable accommodations as required by applicable law.
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Pay Range Salary: $88,300 - $143,400
The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Dotdash *** 's total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives. In addition, Dotdash *** provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, unlimited paid time off (PTO), adoption or surrogate assistance, donation matching, tuition reimbursement, basic life insurance, basic accidental death & dismemberment, supplemental life insurance, supplemental accident insurance, commuter benefits, short term and long term disability, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family care benefits, a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program, 10-12 paid holidays annually, and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents), all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with Dotdash *** and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.
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