Senior Art Director

ABOUT MAKEUP BY MARIO

Founded by world-renowned makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic, Makeup by Mario is a fast-growing prestige beauty brand redefining artistry-driven makeup. With a powerful presence across leading global beauty retailers and direct-to-consumer channels, we deliver innovative, high-performance products rooted in artistry, craft, and education.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Reporting to the VP Creative, the Senior Social Art Director will lead cross-functional collaboration across the creative team to concept, execute and deliver high-impact creative for our social media platforms and paid media.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partner with VP Creative, VP Marketing, Social Media Manager and Public Relations Manager on concepting and art direction for all social media channels and paid social
• Owns output
• Lead concept ideation and visualization for social campaigns across platforms, aligned to NPL and evergreen creative cadences
• Drive visual research and trend interpretation across photography, video and social to maintain and grow platform engagement
• Collaborate with the production team to build shoot schedules, run-of-show documents and casting summaries
• Manage and mentor graphic designers, content creators, video editors and retouchers

ON SET

• Support the Creative Director and campaign Art Directors on secondary sets; oversee campaign and evergreen social and digital needs
• Manage social capture sets for on-figure, still-life and video

POST PRODUCTION

• Supervise designers in maintaining tight image and typography reproduction standards
• Oversee retouching and video post-production in partnership with the team to uphold high standards across all platforms

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Relevant art direction experience in beauty and/or fashion, including graphic design, concepting and on-set team management
• Social native with deep fluency in emerging trends across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube; able to reinterpret for the brand environment
• Strong familiarity with beauty and lifestyle talent and the broader social community
• Knowledge of beauty and fashion photography and cinema is a strong asset
• Strong graphic design foundation with technical typography skills
• Proficient in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Premiere
• Post-production oversight experience across both still

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Visual Communications or a related field — or equivalent professional experience
• 8\+ years of art direction experience, with significant time in beauty, fashion or lifestyle brands
• Proven track record concepting and executing social-first creative across social media channels
• Experience managing and directing creative teams including designers, editors and retouchers
• Strong on-set experience managing social capture for both still and video
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Premiere
• Post-production oversight experience across still and video

Preferred

• Experience at a DTC, prestige beauty brand, or background in fashion preferred
• Familiarity with paid social creative requirements and platform specs
• Existing relationships within the beauty and lifestyle talent community
• Knowledge of beauty and fashion photography, casting and production
• Experience working within new product launch calendars and evergreen creative cadences

WHAT WE OFFER

• Hybrid - four days in office and one day remote
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Health savings account (HSA), flexible spending account (FSA), dependent care FSA
• Commuter benefits
• OneMedical membership
• Health Advocate, Talkspace and partnership with Kindbody
• Life insurance and supplemental life insurance
• 401k with company match
• Generous time off