Art Director Junior

Overview

As Art Director at La Vie, you will ensure best-in-class, visually bright and beautiful content on all touchpoints for La Vie, helping us to build one of the most iconic food brands.

You will work in partnership with the Brand & Creative Lead and report to the Chief Marketing Officer, bringing the La Vie brands to new heights in Europe and creating a genuine long‑term iconic brand saga.

Success Criteria

La Vie keeps bringing beauty and consistency everywhere it is showcased—from packaging designs, store activation to events.

Responsibilities

• Lead or co‑lead packaging design execution with the design agency and illustrator to create new packaging that triggers consumer desire and tells relevant stories.
• Work with social media teams and the graphic designer alternate to supervise content design creation, give guidelines, and ensure consistent, beautiful content on social media.
• Coordinate all image, photography, video and motion design content productions with internal, external agencies and freelancers to build a visually stunning and consistent brand.
• Create scenographic designs for tradeshows, internal and external events, and specific occasions.
• Build guidelines, templates, and coach the team internally and externally to apply them.
• Manage a Junior Art Director trainee, ensuring qualitative day‑to‑day marketing and trade marketing visuals (POS materials, PowerPoint presentations, illustration ideas).
• Work in a creative duo with the Creative Director to create iconic, bold, culturally relevant advertising campaigns and PR stunts.

Qualifications & Skills

• 3 to 5 years of experience as Art Director in an agency or as a freelancer.
• Strong sensibility with the visual style of La Vie: naïve, illustrative, bold, bright and entertaining.
• Bold & challenger creative mindset to create standout ideas and campaigns.
• High standard of excellence in execution across all touchpoints.
• Strong, smart, quirky sense of humor.
• Autonomous and able to lead multiple projects on your own.
• Ability to connect quickly to a network of freelancers and external talent when needed.
• Fluent in French and English.
• Proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator and modern visual & video production tools.
• Skills in packaging creation and execution (print‑ready files).
• Photography skills (food photography and videos for social media).
• Illustration skills to create specific illustration content under contract.
• Good knowledge of motion design, movies, and movie editing.

Benefits

Fast growing start‑up with ample opportunities—the sky’s the limit.