Lead Art Director (all genders)

You'll join Holidu's Brand & Creative team, a small group of designers and brand experts working across 8 European markets and multiple brands. As Lead Art Director, you'll report to the Head of Brand & Creative and work with the Creative Studio to set the visual quality bar for performance marketing, landing pages, product videos, and brand initiatives.

Responsibilities

Hands-On Production

• Concept, produce, and iterate performance marketing ads across multiple brands.
• Design and optimise landing pages for conversion.
• Lead video productions, including planning, art direction, and post-production.
• Create explainer and tutorial videos for product features and services.
• Develop visual identities for brands and new product features.

Creative Quality & Operations

• Own creative ops, taking briefs from stakeholders, pushing back when needed, and prioritising tasks.
• Review and elevate design output across performance marketing, brand campaigns, and landing pages.
• Ensure brand consistency across all touchpoints, including ads, social media, web, and product, across markets.
• Inspire the design team through hands-on feedback, creative reviews, and mentoring on art direction, motion design, and performance creative best practices.

AI Workflows

• Build and scale AI-driven production workflows to multiply the team's creative output.
• Create frameworks and guidelines for stakeholders to use AI for content creation.
• Optimise existing automation workflows for scale, connecting tools like Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and AI platforms.
• Stay current on emerging AI tools and techniques and integrate the best ones into the team's toolkit.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in an in-house team at a tech company or agency with high production volume.
• Educational foundation in Visual communication design, visual arts, media design, or similar.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating branding, advertising, motion design, video production, and web design projects.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
• Motion design expertise.
• Working experience with AI tools for content creation.
• Platform fluency in creative requirements, formats, and marketing KPIs across Google, Meta, TikTok, and short-form video.
• Experience with B2B/SaaS landing page design and conversion optimisation is a plus.
• Experience working across multiple brands or markets simultaneously is a plus.
• Fluency in English; German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, or Italian is a plus.

Benefits

• Impact: Shape the future of travel with products used by millions of guests and thousands of hosts.
• Learning: Grow professionally in a culture that thrives on curiosity and feedback.
• Great People: Join a team of smart, motivated, and international colleagues.
• Technology: Work in a modern tech environment.
• Flexibility: Hybrid setup with 50% in-office time and up to 8 weeks a year from other inspiring locations.
• Perks: Travel benefits, gym discounts, and other perks.