Art Director Junior

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

You will work in duo with the Brand & Creative Lead and report directly to the Chief Marketing Officer, bringing the La Vie brands to new heights in Europe.

What success looks like

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

Responsibilities

• Lead or co‑lead packaging design execution with our design agency and illustrator, creating new packaging that triggers consumer desire and tells relevant stories.
• Work with the 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 and external agencies and freelancers, and use internal studio photo tools to create images for product launches and recipe videos.
• Create scenographic design for tradeshows, internal and external events, and specific occasions such as the La Vie Guinguette.
• Build guidelines, templates, and coach the team both internally and externally to apply them.
• Manage a Junior Art Director trainee, ensuring high‑quality work on day‑to‑day marketing and trade marketing visuals.
• Work in a creative duo with the Creative Director to create iconic, bold, culturally relevant advertising campaigns and PR‑stunts.

Qualifications

• 1 to 3 years of experience as Art Director in an agency or as a freelancer.
• Strong sense of the visual style of La Vie: naïve, illustrative, bold, bright and entertaining.
• BOLD & challenger creative mindset to create ideas and campaigns that stand out.
• Very ambitious for yourself and for La Vie, to create iconic work.
• Very high standard of excellence in execution on all touchpoints.
• Strong, smart, quirky sense of humour.
• Autonomous and able to lead multiple projects independently.
• Able to quickly connect to a network of freelancers for specific projects.
• Fluent in French and English.
• Skilled in Photoshop, Illustrator and all modern tools for visual and video production.
• Packaging creation and execution skills (print‑ready files).
• Photography skills (food photography and videos for social media).
• Illustration skills to create specific illustration content.
• Good notions of motion design, movies and movie editing.