Manager – Brand Communications Design – Art Director

Manager – Brand Communications Design – Art Director

Requirements

• Must demonstrate a fresh and culturally relevant perspective on design & innovation, and the ability to understand and translate the latest pop culture, fashion, graphic, and design trends into creative marketing outputs.
• Has a mastery of typography, photography, layout, and general design principles.
• 7+ years of design experience with a top-notch visual aesthetic.
• Minimum of 3yrs. at Art Director level, leading and directing designers.
• Strong strategic and ideation/conceptual abilities—demonstrated ability to translate client message/brief into effective communications across the full range of creative disciplines (print, TV/video, radio, social, web, mobile, etc.).
• Self-motivated, well-organized, and up to the challenges of ever-changing timelines, requests, and deliverables.
• Strong collaborative skills and attitude across multiple disciplines.
• Superior presentation skills with the ability to persuade and inform, while maintaining professional standards and a strategic point of view.
• Ability to recognize, develop, and enhance concepts developed by other designers and direct their translation across all channels.
• Must be industry aware: current events, trends, and general advertising culture.
• Fluent verbal and written English essential; other languages desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provides creative leadership on key projects by guiding cross-functional teams, aligning external and internal creatives with project goals, and ensuring high-quality execution without direct reporting lines.
• Owns and drives the end-to-end creative process for key initiatives across the global JBL portfolio, ensuring strategic alignment, creative excellence, and timely delivery from concept through completion.
• Successfully translates creative ideas into print, retail, social, video, web, and promotions; able to demonstrate effective work in multiple formats, including but not limited to mobile applications, social media applications, rich format advertising, standard format advertising, websites/microsites, emails, and retail applications.
• Responsible for the visual and creative output of any owned projects.
• Learn about and gain a deep understanding of cultural and creative semiotics across different product categories, including Speakers, Headphones, Gaming Headsets, Home, Professional, and Performance audio.
• Hands-on design development of brand and campaign content/graphics.
• Develop various creative solutions across different channels and formats, including but not limited to print, digital, motion/animation, and live/experiential.
• Works with the creative studio to create the visual expression for all brand campaigns and creative initiatives. Develops and maintains visual tone, consistency, and quality across all internal and consumer-facing communications.
• Ability to scope resources, tools, and assets needed for projects and properly source/recruit and/or advocate for the support needed for proper project execution.
• Develops and maintains brand guidelines for the JBL global brand and its initiatives. Adopt responsibility for company-wide initiatives that enhance and encourage the growth of talent, and networks to bring new talent to Harman.
• Able to manage multiple overlapping projects and workstreams, with strong prioritization and time management skills.
• Supports/facilitates the mandatory adherence to Global Design requirements, processes, and procedures.
• Manages delivery teams across multiple creative projects, ensuring alignment to the strategic vision while maintaining brand integrity and driving timely, high-quality output.
• Leads and manages key creative vendor relationships, overseeing end-to-end project workflows to ensure seamless collaboration, on-brand execution, and delivery excellence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience from a client service organization
• Consumer electronics industry experience
• A design-focused degree is a plus.