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Art Director
Autodesk
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Art Director
Location: San Francisco, CA- United States
Job ID: 18WD28553
Position Overview
Are you looking for a career where you can collaborate with both creative and engineering types to build a better world with innovative technology? If so, this is your chance to help shape the brand behind the future of making things, as a senior art director with Autodesk’s Brand Creative team.
As part of the Brand Strategy and Design team, the Art Director will be responsible for bringing brand strategy to life across many diverse touch points. The position will contribute to advancing the creative team’s mission, helping expand awareness of Autodesk and deepen its engagement with its many audiences, around the world.
The creative team uses its visual and verbal branding expertise to create impactful brand identity programs for Autodesk, and tell compelling stories through great writing, beautiful imagery, video, and exhibitions. We define the Autodesk brand experience.
Responsibilities
• You are a creative leader who understands business strategy and objectives, and translate these into credible and elegant creative solutions that produce results
• As a design expert, you integrate the creative point-of-view in conversations
• You learn and understand Autodesk’s business, and drive the creative team’s mission forward by engaging with stakeholders across company to form a strong global network
• As a creative adventurer, you fearlessly explore new ideas, new ways of realizing them, and bolder ways of communicating them
• Develop and combine 3D imagery, video, photography and illustration into unified design systems
• Collaborate with a wide range of creative teams and key stakeholders
• Create convincing creative business cases and presentations
• Develop a deep understanding of all Autodesk’s brand touchpoints
• Effectively communicate the importance and value of the Autodesk brand internally and externally
• Promote innovation and experimentation within the creative team
• Manage freelancers, vendors and other external support
Minimum Qualifications
• 5+ years of on-the-job experience as a 3d artist, with a diverse portfolio demonstrating work of various styles and across a variety of media
• BA in Design, Industrial Design, or Engineering
• Thorough understanding of Autodesk’s 3d workflows, rendering, animation and compositing for high res stills and film
• Virtuoso with Adobe’s Creative Cloud
• Photography, videography and story-telling skills a big plus
• Hands-on making experience a bonus
• Willing to learn new digital and fabrication techniques, and share ideas
• Demonstrates excellent analytical skills, can navigate creative challenges with ease
• Thrives in a fast-moving environment
About Autodesk
With Autodesk software, you have the power to Make Anything. The future of making is here, bringing with it radical changes in the way things are designed, made, and used. It's disrupting every industry: architecture, engineering, and construction; manufacturing; and media and entertainment. With the right knowledge and tools, this disruption is your opportunity. Our software is used by everyone - from design professionals, engineers and architects to digital scientists, students and hobbyists. We constantly explore new ways to integrate all dimensions of diversity across our employees, customers, partners, and communities. Our ultimate goal is to expand opportunities for anyone to imagine, design, and make a better world.