Senior Art Director

Location: Remote, U.S. Preferred

Type: Full-Time Contract

About Paravel Insights

Paravel Insights is a strategy, marketing, and creative agency that exists to empower visionary and faith-based organizations. We partner with mission-driven clients across advocacy, education, nonprofit, political, and cultural spaces to help build meaningful movements and high-impact campaigns.

Our team thrives in fast-moving environments where strategy, creativity, and execution work hand in hand. We value excellence, initiative, adaptability, humility, and strong collaboration.

Role Overview

Paravel Insights is seeking a highly skilled Sr. Art Director to help lead and execute creative work across a wide range of client accounts and campaigns. This role is ideal for a designer who combines strong visual instincts with strategic thinking and thrives in a collaborative, high-capacity agency environment.

This is not simply a design role. We are looking for someone who can help develop campaigns from the ground up, contribute to conceptual thinking, shape creative direction, and build visual systems that carry across an entire initiative. The ideal candidate is capable of taking an idea from early-stage brainstorming and strategy conversations all the way through final execution across multiple channels and touchpoints.

The Sr. Art Director will play a key role in helping create and shape campaign identities, messaging frameworks, creative concepts, content systems, advertising creative, presentation design, social content, websites, video direction, and storytelling experiences. This role requires both strong conceptual thinking and high-level design execution.

You will work closely with strategists, account managers, copywriters, project managers, and other creative team members to bring ideas to life in a way that is visually compelling, strategically aligned, and executionally excellent.

Key Responsibilities

Campaign & Creative Concept Development

• Collaborate with internal teams to help develop campaigns, brands, and creative initiatives from initial concept through execution

• Participate in brainstorming sessions, creative workshops, and strategic discussions

• Help shape visual narratives, campaign positioning, audience direction, and overall creative approach

• Develop original creative concepts and visual systems that can scale across multiple platforms and deliverables

• Translate high-level strategy and messaging into compelling creative ideas and experiences

Creative Development & Execution

• Lead the design and execution of creative assets across digital, print, social, web, advertising, video, and campaign initiatives

• Develop cohesive campaign identities, branding systems, and visual toolkits

• Create high-quality presentations, pitch decks, social graphics, paid advertising creative, event materials, websites, and marketing collateral

• Design assets that support full campaign ecosystems, including launch campaigns, nurture content, fundraising, advocacy, recruitment, events, and storytelling initiatives

• Ensure consistency across all deliverables while maintaining a high standard of creative excellence

Creative Strategy & Direction

• Collaborate closely with strategists and account leads to ensure creative aligns with campaign goals and audience insights

• Contribute ideas during campaign development and creative planning sessions

• Help establish visual direction and creative standards across client accounts

• Participate in creative reviews and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback

• Help guide the evolution of campaigns and creative systems over time

Project Ownership & Quality Control

• Manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously in a fast-paced environment

• Ensure deliverables are completed accurately, on time, and at a high level of polish

• Maintain organized working files and strong version control practices

• Review creative work for consistency, alignment, and quality before final delivery

• Communicate proactively regarding timelines, revisions, and project needs

Team Collaboration

• Work collaboratively with internal team members and external contractors when needed

• Support and mentor junior designers or creative contributors as the team grows

• Contribute positively to a collaborative and solutions-oriented creative culture

• Participate in internal meetings, creative reviews, and planning sessions

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional design experience, preferably within an agency, marketing, campaign, or creative studio environment

• Strong portfolio demonstrating campaign development, brand systems, digital creative, visual storytelling, and conceptual thinking

• Proven ability to build campaigns and creative systems from concept through execution

• High proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, especially Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign

• Experience with Figma, Canva, Google Workspace, Slack, and Asana preferred

• Strong understanding of typography, layout, hierarchy, composition, branding, and visual storytelling principles

• Ability to think strategically while executing at a high creative level

• Excellent communication, organization, and time management skills

• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, collaborative, and feedback-oriented environment

• Motion graphics, video editing, creative direction, or web design experience is a plus

Cultural Alignment

At Paravel, culture matters deeply. We are looking for someone who:

• Is proactive, collaborative, and solutions-oriented

• Communicates clearly and professionally

• Takes initiative and ownership over their work

• Adapts quickly and works well in evolving environments

• Values excellence while remaining humble and team-oriented

• Is comfortable supporting mission-driven and faith-based organizations

Why Work With Paravel

• Opportunity to work on meaningful, mission-driven campaigns and initiatives

• Collaborative and highly creative team environment

• Variety of projects across branding, advocacy, media, campaigns, and storytelling

• Flexible remote work environment

• Fast-moving agency culture with significant opportunity for growth and leadership

To Apply

Please submit your resume, portfolio examples or portfolio link, and a short introduction outlining your experience and interest in the role.

Please include portfolio examples or a portfolio link with your application. Applications submitted without relevant design samples will not be considered. 

You can email hiring@paravelinsights.com directly as well.