Art Director
Shanghai, China
APAC /
Full Time /
On-site
About the Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled Art Director to lead visual storytelling across both print and video for a global brand. You will combine creative vision with hands-on execution, ensuring every project meets the highest standards of aesthetics, brand consistency, and technical quality.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of moodboards, style frames, treatments, and visual language including color, composition, and overall art direction. Translate creative concepts into compelling visual narratives across both print and video.
- Collaborate effectively across departments, including creative, marketing, production, and external vendors, to drive projects from concept to completion.
- Stay ahead of global visual trends, translating insights into actionable creative strategies.
- Balance creative direction and execution, building a compelling vision while ensuring all deliverables meet quality and brand standards.
- Oversee final outputs, ensuring alignment with creative intent, brand guidelines, and technical requirements.
- Has a keen eye and is able to deliver entertaining, premium and (importantly) fun content storytelling that allows us to express our global brand.
- Partners most closely with studio team to develop in-house studio capabilities.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Visual Arts, Design, Photography, Advertising, or related fields.
- 5+ years of experience in art direction or leading visual creative projects within branding, advertising, fashion, retail, or e-commerce.
- Need information on how they will prepare for and lead creative on photo/video shoots (need experiences on set, understand all aspects of photo shoots including styling/talent/lighting, etc.)
- Digital to print and photo experience
- Proven ability to lead projects end-to-end, from concept ideation to final delivery, for global campaigns.
- Proficient in both print and video creative production, with hands-on execution skills.
- Familiarity with modern creative tools and workflows, including AI, 3D, and motion graphics.
- Strong responsibility, execution skills under pressure, and ability to maintain high-quality output.
- Bilingual in English and Chinese, with excellent cross-cultural communication skills; international work experience or study abroad is a plus.
¥20,000 - ¥25,000 a month
PopSockets is dedicated to the practice of equal opportunity employment. We prohibit unlawful discrimination against applicants and employees on the basis of age, race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, military status, genetic information, color, creed, ancestry, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law. This prohibition includes unlawful harassment based on any of these protected classes. Unlawful harassment includes verbal or physical conduct which has the purpose or effect of interfering with an individual’s work performance, or creating an intimidating, hostile, offensive, unsafe or otherwise non-welcoming work environment. This policy applies to all employees, including managers, supervisors, co-workers; and non-employees such as customers, clients, vendors, consultants, etc.
