# Template Art Director (12-month contract) - Japan

**Company**: Canva
**Location**: Tokyo, Tokyo
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

We are looking for a Template Art Director to focus on our template Library, which is the design content marketplace where millions of users start their design journey.

Responsibilities:

- Create a range of fresh, varied and beautiful designs for our Japan community.

- Develop unique concepts for templates across themes and topics that resonate in Japan.

- Collaborate with asset creators to develop supporting design elements.

- Suggest new design styles and creative directions that fit what local users want.

- Focus on quality management for Creator templates.

- Use AI tools to create templates at scale for the Japan market.

- Write Creator briefs that give clear direction, context and inspiration.

- Partner with the Design Lead to manage freelancer designers.

Qualifications:

- Experience as a Graphic, Brand or Visual Designer across digital and print marketing.

- A genuine love for design trends and styles specific to Japan.

- A portfolio that shows your passion for clean, elegant, beautiful design.

- Strong craft in hand illustration, typography, colour, conceptual graphic design and layout.

- A sharp eye for visual, cultural and pop culture trends.

- A strong stylistic point of view, grounded in design fundamentals.

- You design with the end user in mind, and deliver great work on deadline and to brief.

- You've given design feedback before , and you know how to make it clear, kind and useful.

- You're comfortable using AI tools in your design workflow, and curious about pushing them further.

- You can write a tight creative brief that sets other designers up for success.

- You've helped coordinate or guide a small group of designers before.

## Skills

### Required
- Graphic Design
- Brand Design
- Visual Design
- Illustration
- Typography
- Colour Theory
- Conceptual Graphic Design
- Layout Design
- AI Tools

### Nice to have
- Canva

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