Job Summary

The Art Director is responsible for leading and managing the visual direction of creative projects, ensuring high-quality design and a cohesive visual brand identity. They will work closely with creative teams, including designers, photographers, copywriters, and project managers, to bring concepts to life across a variety of media. The Art Director must balance creativity with strategic thinking to align visual elements with brand messaging, target audience, and project goals.

Responsibilites

• Conceptualization and Vision: Develop and articulate creative concepts that align with brand vision and client objectives.
• Team Leadership: Manage and inspire a team of designers, illustrators, and other creatives, providing guidance and feedback to maintain consistency and quality across projects.
• Project Collaboration: Work closely with copywriters, marketers, product managers, and other stakeholders to ensure all creative outputs meet brand standards and project goals.
• Visual Direction: Oversee all visual aspects of a project, from initial concept through to final delivery, ensuring a cohesive look and feel across mediums, such as print, digital, and social media.
• Creative Storytelling: Good to have ability to craft engaging narratives through video editing, incorporating compelling pacing, transitions, and effects that align with the project’s vision and target audience.
• Technical Expertise: Good to have proficiency in industry-standard editing software (e.g., Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects,) with a strong understanding of color grading, audio synchronisation, and file formats.
• Brand Identity Development: Define and enforce brand guidelines, ensuring all creative assets adhere to established visual standards.
• Resource and Budget Management: Coordinate resources, manage budgets, and track project timelines to ensure efficient and timely project delivery.
• Creative Problem-Solving: Address and resolve any design challenges that may arise during the project, always aiming for innovative solutions that enhance the end product.
• Lead and manage multiple portfolios and get into BD as and when required
• Motivate and lead managers to perform their best and help manage accounts
• Budgeting, workflow management, Design QC and process setting experience is a must
• Design automation/UI expertise would be an added advantage
• Developing insightful, visually compelling, and engaging dashboards and presentations leveraging existing data sets
• Hands-on experience in creating CXO friendly presentations, whitepapers, communications, social media content, dashboards etc.
• Skilled at data exploration; able to quickly transform and synthesize data from multiple sources and identify optimal data structures to support end-state reporting needs
• Collaborate with other teams within RSE and Business Units in GBS to meet reporting requirements (e.g., dashboards, communications)
• Ability to convey messages in a crisp and simple manner, supported with strong visual aids
• Looking for opportunities to innovate and get things done better and faster
• Constructively challenges business on assumptions and goals; asks questions that effectively lead to deeper understanding  

Regulatory & Business Conduct 

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Internal stakeholders

Other Responsibilites

• Looking for a candidate with 12+ years of relevant experience in graphic design, visual aids, etc.
• Banking / Global Business Services domain knowledge is good to have but not a necessity
• Experience of running and managing large creative/design initiatives/teams
• Excellent communication, presentation and documentation skills
• Stakeholder management skills and project management skills

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, Graphic Design, or a related field.
• 5 to 8 years of experience in a creative or art direction role, with a strong portfolio showcasing work across various media.
• Proficiency in design software (Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, etc.) and familiarity with motion graphics or interactive design is a plus.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and project management skills.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong understanding of typography, color theory, and layout design principles.
• Keen attention to detail and a passion for high-quality design.  

Our Ideal Candidate

• Highly creative with a strategic mindset
• Strong sense of visual style and storytelling.
• Collaborative, adaptable, and able to inspire a team to achieve exceptional results.
• This role requires a creative visionary who can translate ideas into compelling visual narratives, driving impactful, memorable brand experiences. The Art Director will play a critical role in shaping and defining our brand’s creative presence.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.