Art Director Jobs in New York, NY

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About The Role

We're looking for an Art Director to help shape how Claude shows up in brand campaigns. You'll be a hands-on creative partner working closely with our brand and marketing teams, concepting and driving campaigns. We need someone who's built ideas from a brief, sold them in a room, and seen them through to production. You should be as comfortable sketching a concept on a whiteboard as you are directing a photographer on set or briefing an agency partner. Some campaigns you'll build and ship entirely in-house; others you'll run through external agencies, acting as the creative through-line between our team and theirs. Either way, you're hands-on and you own the outcome. This role is deep in campaign craft, but broad beyond it. Within a campaign, you hold the bar for the work, down to the last detail. Beyond it, you think strategically about how the work radiates outward, builds the Claude brand as a whole, and connects across the business.

Responsibilities

- Concept and art direct integrated campaigns for Claude from initial brief through final production across digital, video, and print.
- Direct photo and video shoots, working with directors, photographers, illustrators, animators, and production partners to bring campaigns to life.
- Flex between executing work in-house and directing it through agency partners. When we go external, you're the creative lead in the room, translating brand context, giving clear feedback, and keeping the work ours.
- Develop campaign visual systems with repeatable creative frameworks that give a campaign range while keeping it recognizably ours.
- Shape Claude’s brand storytelling, finding compelling ways to turn product capabilities and user experiences into narratives people actually want to engage with.
- Serve as a creative partner to the brand and product marketing teams, bringing audience insight and brand strategy to life through bold creative concepts and sharp visual direction.
- Ensure brand consistency and raise the bar for quality across all Claude touchpoints.

You may be a good fit if you

- 12+ years of experience with a portfolio rooted in campaign work, showing concept development, art direction, and execution across multiple channels and formats.
- Have worked both sides of the agency relationship. You can build a campaign with your own hands, and you can steer an external team without losing the thread.
- Have directed shoots and worked closely with photographers, illustrators, or production teams. You know how to get the best work out of collaborators.
- Can move between strategic thinking and hands-on execution without losing momentum. You’re comfortable doing the work, not just directing it.
- Have experience building consumer-facing or product brand campaigns and understand how to make that work feel distinctive and human.
- Are drawn to brand-building work—shaping perception, building affinity, and raising the bar for how a company shows up in the market.
- Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and can manage multiple campaigns and workstreams without sacrificing quality.

Annual Salary

$305,000 - $385,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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How We're Different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills. The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

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