Senior Art Director at Next Media

Job Description

Job Summary

The Senior Art  Director Lead is the overall custodian of creative excellence for NEXTCom. The role provides strategic and hands-on leadership across design, content photography, and content repurposing teams, ensuring that all creative output is conceptually strong, visually outstanding, on-brand, and commercially effective.

This role combines big-idea thinking with operational leadership, guiding creative strategy, allocating work, reviewing output, mentoring teams, and representing NEXTCom in high-level client engagements, proposals, and pitches.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Creative Strategy & Vision
  • Define and drive NEXTCom’s creative vision across all platforms and
  • Translate business and marketing objectives into powerful creative
  • Lead conceptual development for major campaigns and brand
  • Ensure alignment between creative output and brand
• Team Leadership & Management
  • Lead and manage:
    • Design Team
    • Content Photography Team
    • Content Repurposing & Adaptation Team
    • Next Creata, Content Hub (event and podcast production assets)
  • Allocate work based on skill sets, workload, and
  • Mentor, coach, and develop creative
  • Build a high-performance, collaborative creative
• Creative Execution & Quality Control
  • Oversee creative development from brief to final
  • Review and approve designs, layouts, visuals, and
  • Enforce brand guidelines and creative
  • Ensure consistency and excellence across all media brands and client
• Client & Commercial Support
  • Participate in proposal development and creative sections of
  • Present creative ideas and strategies to
  • Provide creative input into new business
  • Work closely with business and digital teams to shape sellable
• Digital-First Creative Leadership
  • Champion digital-first thinking across all creative
  • Guide teams on content formats optimized for social, mobile, and digital
  • Drive innovation in storytelling, formats, and visual
• Tools, Systems & Process
  • Define creative workflows and processes, alongside Head of
  • Introduce and optimize creative tools and
  • Ensure efficient collaboration between creative, content, and digital
• Capability Building & Training
  • Identify skill gaps within creative
  • Develop and run regular training and upskilling
  • Keep teams updated on global creative trends and best practices

Minimum Qualifications Required

• 10–12 years of experience in senior, faced-paced, creative
• Proven experience working in a fully-fledged advertising agency
• Strong background in managing multidisciplinary creative
• Demonstrated experience handling client work end-to-
• Strong portfolio showcasing conceptual and executional
• Excellent presentation and storytelling
• Strategic and conceptual thinker
• Strong leadership and people management
• Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• High attention to detail and quality
• Commercially aware

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