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Art Director

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About us

At Pencil, we are building the AI Operating System for marketing — the only enterprise platform that aggregates every leading AI model, enforces enterprise-grade governance, and turns creative production savings into media growth. Our work moves brands like Diageo, L’Oréal and Unilever from creative brief to live, on-brand, performance-tested campaigns in minutes — across every market, channel and language — without sacrificing legal, IT or brand control.

Your mission

Bring the craft of advertising together with the speed of GenAI. You build and operate agentic and nodal creative workflows — connecting insight, concept, copy, imagery and video into scalable systems — so our creative teams and clients can move from idea to finished advertising faster, without losing quality or strategic grounding.

You work day-to-day under the direction of Art Directors and Creative Directors, bringing deep hands-on fluency in GenAI tools and workflows to their briefs. You're not setting creative vision — you're the person in the room who knows how to make the technology deliver on it.

Reporting and partnerships

- Reports to Juliette Suvitha, Head of AI Creative & Enablement.

- Briefs and reviews daily output from the wider Creative team, providing hands-on guidance rather than formal management.

- Works closely with Producers, the Creative Director, and Product teams to keep output strategically aligned and technically feasible.

- Feeds back to Product on tools, workflows and user experience based on hands-on use.

Key responsibilities

Creative production

- Design and deliver: creative assets across formats — advertising, digital and print — using GenAI tools.

- Translate briefs into output: turn briefs into polished creative work that aligns with project objectives and the relevant visual identity.

- Support flagship projects: contribute to creative production on projects that demonstrate Pencil’s product capabilities.

- Juggle volume without dropping quality: manage multiple creative requests simultaneously, maintaining quality and consistency across deliverables.

Quality and client-facing work

- Brief and review: brief the Creative team and review their daily output.

- Own quality control: provide daily quality checks on client decks and feedback.

- Present with confidence: present to clients on AI creative workflows.

Collaboration and process

- Stay aligned: work closely with Producers, the Creative Director, and Product teams to ensure output is strategically aligned and technically feasible.

- Shape the platform: provide feedback on platform and AI tools, workflows, and user experience to support ongoing product improvement.

- Contribute ideas: help define how GenAI shapes Pencil’s approach to storytelling and design in internal creative discussions.

Innovation and growth

- Stay current: keep up with emerging GenAI and design technologies, sharing insights and inspiration with the team.

- Find better ways of working: identify new techniques and workflows that enhance speed, consistency, or creative quality.

- Improve what exists: take initiative to improve creative systems, templates, and processes within your projects.

- Keep growing: seek feedback proactively and apply it to grow both your craft and your creative judgment.

Your background

- Experience as an Art Director or similar, ideally in advertising or digital production (essential).

- Hands-on experience with GenAI creative tools across image, video and design generation (essential).

- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud or equivalent design tools (essential).

- Comfortable presenting creative work directly to clients (essential).

- A strong eye for visual identity, brand consistency, and craft (essential).

- Please be prepared to showcase your portfolio.

You’ll thrive here if you...

- Detail-oriented: You can run multiple creative requests at once without letting quality slip.

- A hands-on leader: You brief and review others’ work, but you’re still making things yourself.

- Calm under pressure: Daily quality checks and client decks don’t rattle you.

- Curious: You’re always exploring what new GenAI tools and techniques can do.

- Collaborative: You work well across Producers, the Creative Director, and Product.

Your benefits

- Opportunity to work at the cutting edge of GenAI.

- Sponsored professional and personal learning allowance

- Flexible vacation / time-off policy.

- Competitive health insurance and welfare cover.

- Fully remote work.

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