Fender
Art Director
Los Angeles, CA · Director
Sponsorship not specified$100k-$120kDetected 1 day ago
FigmaSketchPhotoshopIllustratorAdobe Creative SuiteCanvaAfter EffectsProject ManagementPremiere ProPhotographyCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- Fender Musical Instruments Corporation ("FMIC"), an American icon born in Southern California, is a global leader in musical instrument manufacturing, marketing, and distribution.
- Fender is more than an instrument; it's a cultural symbol that resonates worldwide.
- This role is responsible for defining the visual style and overseeing the execution and development of all campaign assets for our product launches across channels, working with an external roster of agencies and freelancers.
Responsibilities
- External Partner Management: Identify, onboard, and manage the day-to-day operations of external partners including agencies, design studios, production companies, photographers, and freelancers.
- Campaign Development: Conceptualize, design, and execute culturally relevant campaigns across digital, social, and video platforms, with a focus on digitally native content.
- Identify, onboard, and manage the day-to-day operations of external partners including agencies, design studios, production companies, photographers, and freelancers.
- Conceptualize, design, and execute culturally relevant campaigns across digital, social, and video platforms, with a focus on digitally native content.
- Exceptional portfolio showcasing, visual design, and photo/video art direction and experience working on set and in studio.
Requirements
- Expertise and fundamental understanding of the intricacies and opportunities of designing for different digital platforms
- Technical Expertise: Mastery of tools such as Figma, Canva, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, Premiere), Keynote and familiarity with current technologies.
- Must be open to and eager to execute on cross-functional feedback in the interest of delivering comprehensive solutions.
- The ideal candidate is an expert in today's digital landscape and is passionate about being an empathetic manifestation of the needs of our users.
- Portfolio: Exceptional portfolio showcasing, visual design, and photo/video art direction and experience working on set and in studio. Expertise and fundamental understanding of the intricacies and opportunities of designing for different digital platforms
- Skills: Proven ability to pitch and execute strong campaign concepts across diverse audiences and media. Experience in multi-cultural environments and with multi-cultural brands is a plus. A team player who thrives in a collaborative environment and who is just as at home ideating on a white board as getting in the trenches to do the production work necessary to bring a product to market.
- Communication: Strong written, oral, and visual communication skills. Must be open to and eager to execute on cross-functional feedback in the interest of delivering comprehensive solutions.
- Project Management: Experience managing a roster of external partners and handling high-growth, fast-paced environments.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Art, Fine Arts, or Design.
- Additional Skills: Broad hybrid skill set in design, ideation, photography, and motion graphics.
- Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) is one of the world's leading musical instrument manufacturers, marketers and distributors, whose portfolio of brands includes Fender®, Squier®, Gretsch®, Jackson®, EVH®, Charvel® and Groove Tubes®, among others. For more information, visit www.fender.com. FMIC offers a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, 401(k), paid time off, and an equipment purchase program to help you get the band back together. Fender Musical Instruments Corporation is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, disability, veterans' status, sexual orientation, or any other protected factor.
- Fender is required by law in certain jurisdictions to include a pay scale in the job posting for this position. "Pay scale" means the salary or hourly wage range that Fender reasonably expects to pay for this position
Nice to have
- Skills: Proven ability to pitch and execute strong campaign concepts across diverse audiences and media.
- A team player who thrives in a collaborative environment and who is just as at home ideating on a white board as getting in the trenches to do the production work necessary to bring a product to market.
Skills
- Proven ability to pitch and execute strong campaign concepts across diverse audiences and media.
- Experience in multi-cultural environments and with multi-cultural brands is a plus.
- Experience as a musician a plus
- Previous work experience in an entertainment or media company nice to have
- Self-starter who works well independently
- Additional
- About Fender Musical Instruments:
- For more information, visit www.fender.com.
- Subject to the foregoing, the current pay scale for this position is $100,000 - $120,000
Compensation
- If this is a remote position, the pay scale disclosed herein may be adjusted further based upon the applicable geographic differential associated with the location from which the successful candidate will work.
- Please note that it is not typical for a Fender employee to be at or near the top of the pay scale for their role - especially as a new hire - and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.
- Subject to the foregoing, the current pay scale for this position is $100,000 - $120,000
Benefits
- FMIC offers a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, 401(k), paid time off, and an equipment purchase program to help you get the band back together.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, disability, veterans' status, sexual orientation, or any other protected factor.
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