Art Director
Pencil
<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>About us</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Your mission</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Reporting and partnerships</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Reports to Juliette Suvitha, Head of AI Creative & Enablement.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Briefs and reviews daily output from the wider Creative team, providing hands-on guidance rather than formal management.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Works closely with Producers, the Creative Director, and Product teams to keep output strategically aligned and technically feasible.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Feeds back to Product on tools, workflows and user experience based on hands-on use.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Key responsibilities</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><em><strong>Creative production</strong></em></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Design and deliver: </strong>creative assets across formats — advertising, digital and print — using GenAI tools.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Translate briefs into output: </strong>turn briefs into polished creative work that aligns with project objectives and the relevant visual identity.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Support flagship projects: </strong>contribute to creative production on projects that demonstrate Pencil’s product capabilities.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Juggle volume without dropping quality: </strong>manage multiple creative requests simultaneously, maintaining quality and consistency across deliverables.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><em><strong>Quality and client-facing work</strong></em></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Brief and review: </strong>brief the Creative team and review their daily output.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Own quality control: </strong>provide daily quality checks on client decks and feedback.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Present with confidence: </strong>present to clients on AI creative workflows.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><em><strong>Collaboration and process</strong></em></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Stay aligned: </strong>work closely with Producers, the Creative Director, and Product teams to ensure output is strategically aligned and technically feasible.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Shape the platform: </strong>provide feedback on platform and AI tools, workflows, and user experience to support ongoing product improvement.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Contribute ideas: </strong>help define how GenAI shapes Pencil’s approach to storytelling and design in internal creative discussions.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><em><strong>Innovation and growth</strong></em></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Stay current: </strong>keep up with emerging GenAI and design technologies, sharing insights and inspiration with the team.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Find better ways of working: </strong>identify new techniques and workflows that enhance speed, consistency, or creative quality.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Improve what exists: </strong>take initiative to improve creative systems, templates, and processes within your projects.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Keep growing: </strong>seek feedback proactively and apply it to grow both your craft and your creative judgment.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Your background</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience as an Art Director or similar, ideally in advertising or digital production (essential).</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Hands-on experience with GenAI creative tools across image, video and design generation (essential).</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud or equivalent design tools (essential).</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Comfortable presenting creative work directly to clients (essential).</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A strong eye for visual identity, brand consistency, and craft (essential).</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><em>Please be prepared to showcase your portfolio.</em></p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You’ll thrive here if you...</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Detail-oriented: </strong>You can run multiple creative requests at once without letting quality slip.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>A hands-on leader: </strong>You brief and review others’ work, but you’re still making things yourself.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Calm under pressure: </strong>Daily quality checks and client decks don’t rattle you.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Curious: </strong>You’re always exploring what new GenAI tools and techniques can do.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Collaborative: </strong>You work well across Producers, the Creative Director, and Product.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Your benefits</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Opportunity to work at the cutting edge of GenAI.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Sponsored professional and personal learning allowance</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Flexible vacation / time-off policy.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Competitive health insurance and welfare cover.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Fully remote work.</p></li></ul><p>Find <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.co.uk">Jobs in United Kingdom</a> on Arbeitnow</a>