
Art Director, Commerce
JUSTADDSUGAR
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Hamburg • 🇩🇪 Germany
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Lead
About the role
- Conceptualize, design and adapt still and motion ad creatives
- Collaborate with colleagues in the creative team to develop ideas and produce platform-specific adaptations for Meta, TikTok, YouTube, etc.
- Create platform-native variants, iterate quickly and ensure quality
- Work with the media team to develop creative A/B tests and continuously optimize creatives
- Coordinate closely with our post-production team and independently create motion ad creatives (e.g., using Bannerify or After Effects)
- Maintain and develop Figma and Cape templates
- Produce and adapt booklets and execute your own graphic projects for our clients
Requirements
- 2–4 years of experience in art direction/design with a social or commerce focus (agency or brand)
- Strong proficiency in Figma and solid skills in Adobe After Effects, Photoshop and presentation tools (Keynote/PowerPoint)
- Understanding of lower-funnel mechanics (offers, value propositions, CTAs, platform specifics) and a feel for concise headlines
- Ability to work independently with a strong team spirit and a confident presence in client-facing situations — supported by our senior team
- High design standards, comfortable in various visual styles and detail-oriented with layouts and aesthetics
- Experience with AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Nano Banana, VEO 3) — prompts, image and video generation are not new to you
- Strong communication skills in German and English
Benefits
- Free beverages such as coffee and soft drinks, plus fruit and snacks
- Flexible, hybrid work options — whether from home or in our Hamburg office
- Company pension plan, access to the mental health platform OpenUp, corporate fitness and HVV (public transport) subsidy
- Regular team and company events
- We <3 dogs
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
art directiondesignA/B testingmotion ad creativesgraphic designlower-funnel mechanicsimage generationvideo generationconcise headlinesvisual styles
Soft skills
team spiritclient-facing presenceindependencedetail-orientedstrong communication