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Cityscape Digital is hiring an art director to join its team in London.

Office location: London Bridge

Type: full-time (Monday to Friday)

Hybrid working:

• Monday and Tuesday – optional WFH
• Wednesday, Thursday, Friday – in-office

At Cityscape Digital, purpose and beauty shape visual excellence, creatively and commercially. Our Art Directors drive the visual vision and ambition of the studio internally, shaping feeling, influencing thinking and driving the value of all our clients externally.

We are looking for someone with the highest visual standards, who can identify and shape the challenges faced by our client teams, and provide them with an exemplary creative solution, whether it is CGI or game engine led, and who can lead a team of talented artists to author great project vision.

This role would suit a senior artist looking to step up into an Art Direction role, or someone who has experience and is looking for a new, dynamic environment to challenge them.

Roles and responsibilities

Roles and responsibilities include but are not limited to

Creative leadership:

• be the creative lead in any situation, author and underwrite the ambition and vision of the project
• attend project briefing sessions, interpreting briefs from the client and shaping them into a wider proposal
• understand the needs and obstacles faced by clients, in order to propose effective and ambitious solutions
• respond to new business opportunities alongside senior Art Directors and Project Managers
• oversee the end to end production, taking ideas and concepts through to final presentation material
• ensure all creative output meets the highest level of excellence both internally and externally

Team plus project leadership:

• lead and shape the vision and ambition of the studio alongside the senior art directors and team of art directors
• effectively critique work and guide a team to achieve desired creative output
• create opportunity and provide guidance to the creative team
• work collaboratively alongside the Resource Manager to assign and resource projects in the team, ensuring the right people are booked on the right projects
• manage day-to-day teams on projects, working on one main project and overseeing multiple smaller projects
• work on a mixture of production and direction, with the ratio depending on project demands
• mentoring oversight on new artists that come into the studio, sharing the load of performance reviews and recruitment with other art directors
• ensure that all projects stay on track financially and creatively
• ensuring the highest levels of project control, articulating way of working at the beginning of a project to the wider client team and effectively maintaining this throughout the project

Required experience:

• experience within a creative industry leading projects – internally and externally
• experience pitching and presenting
• experience within the field of architectural visualisation is essential.

Essential skills:

• strong level of visual critique
• team leadership
• strong verbal and written communication skills
• exceptional idea generation
• strong negotiation and client engagement skills
• excellent organisational skills

Cityscape Digital

We solve problems. As visual communicators, 3D consultants, innovators and creative thinkers we add value across the full lifespan of our clients projects.

We love the ambitious, the fast thinkers and the risk takers. We believe in new technology-led innovation. We see technology enabling ideas and approaches that were not previously imaginable. We believe in the power of communication to build desire and influence thinking.

We believe in radical beauty.

We offer full creative direction and strategic advice to help our clients define their market position, brand voice and sales process. We are world-leading in the deployment of new technology to secure premium sales and letting. We have a proud record of bid winning. As creative thinkers we welcome the unusual problems, unclimbed mountains and frightening deadlines.

We believe the best creative work is collaborative and daring.

We believe in excellence, purpose, and beauty.

Benefits:

• centrally located office in London Bridge, moments away from mainline and tube stations
• after-work social events
• BUPA Private health insurance after successful probation
• free yoga sessions with More Yoga
• cycle to work scheme, with secure cycle storage and showers
• travel card loans after successful probation
• hybrid work environment
• pension scheme
• access to Headspace wellbeing app
• happy hour on Fridays
• 20 days annual leave plus public holidays, increasing to 23 after five years of service

How to apply

If you are interested please submit a PDF CV, portfolio and introductory message via the apply for job button below with the subject “art director 2025”. We will not be reviewing any applications sent through without a portfolio.

www.cityscapedigital.co.uk