Acquisition.com

Director of Art, Design

Acquisition.com

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Las Vegas • Nevada • United States

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Salary

💰 $145,000 - $175,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Lead the Art & Design department across all Acquisition.com brands
  • Manage designers, motion designers, thumbnail designers, and future creative specialists
  • Set design standards, review processes, creative benchmarks, and performance expectations
  • Build a culture of speed, iteration, and excellence without creative ego or bottlenecks
  • Own thumbnail strategy and output across Alex, Leila, and Sharran’s YouTube ecosystems
  • Build repeatable systems for testing, iterating, and improving CTR through design
  • Create brand-specific thumbnail rulesets while maintaining scalability across the department
  • Collaborate with creative producers and marketing to align packaging with video performance goals
  • Build scalable visual identity systems for each brand that apply across long-form, social, and marketing assets
  • Ensure all assets feel cohesive, premium, and aligned with Acquisition.com positioning
  • Maintain and evolve style guides, design libraries, templates, and brand assets
  • Create systems that allow design output to increase without reinventing the wheel every time
  • Own creation and delivery of in-episode graphics, lower thirds, overlays, title sequences, and motion packages
  • Build reusable motion systems that can be deployed across multiple shows and formats
  • Ensure design output improves storytelling and clarity, not just aesthetics
  • Create fast-turn systems for social graphics and promotional assets tied to episode launches
  • Identify, test, and implement AI tools that increase speed of design production and iteration
  • Partner with Tech team to build AI-assisted workflows for thumbnails, visual concepting, image generation, background design, mockups, and graphics
  • Create internal AI playbooks and expectations for how the design team operates
  • Ensure AI output meets brand quality standards and does not create sloppy or generic visuals
  • Work closely with post-production and content teams to ensure design integrates cleanly into editing workflows
  • Collaborate with marketing team to align ad creative, funnels, and visual messaging with content assets
  • Build a shared service model where design becomes a reliable internal resource across all ACQ business units rather than an external bottleneck
  • Transition key design functions from external vendors to internal team execution
  • Ensure internal team can deliver higher quality work faster than vendors
  • Maintain clear tracking of what work is still outsourced, why, and when it gets brought in-house

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in design leadership, creative direction, or high-output digital media environments
  • Proven experience managing a team of designers across multiple deliverables and deadlines
  • Strong understanding of YouTube packaging, thumbnail psychology, and performance-driven creative
  • High taste level with the ability to create premium visuals that still optimize for clicks
  • Experience with motion graphics and post-adjacent workflows is strongly preferred
  • Comfortable building systems, templates, and scalable workflows (not just designing assets)
  • Deep familiarity with AI tools in creative design OR demonstrated obsession with learning and implementing them
  • Ability to move fast, iterate constantly, and maintain quality at high volume
  • Strong communicator with the ability to collaborate across post, production, content, and marketing
Benefits
  • Flexible Unlimited Paid Time Off and Company-wide Holidays
  • Employer sponsored Medical, Dental, & Vision plans
  • $1,950 annual Employer HSA contribution
  • FSA options including dependent care
  • Employee assistance program and mental health resources
  • Employer match program for 401(k), eligible for both Traditional and Roth accounts
  • $1,200 annual wellness reimbursement through JOON that supports health, family care, pet care, fitness, and more!
  • For local or visiting team members, enjoy access to a state of the art gym at our HQ in Las Vegas
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
design leadershipcreative directionYouTube packagingthumbnail psychologymotion graphicssystems buildingtemplate creationAI tools in creative designhigh-output digital mediaperformance-driven creative
Soft Skills
team managementcollaborationstrong communicationiterationquality maintenancefast-paced workcreative problem-solvingorganizational skillsattention to detailtaste level