Senior Art Director Jobs in New York
Senior Art Director jobs in New York represent one of the most active and competitive markets in the country, concentrated in advertising, fashion, publishing, entertainment, and digital media across New York City, Brooklyn, and White Plains. Large agencies and in-house creative teams at companies like Conde Nast, Ogilvy, and NBCUniversal sustain consistent demand for senior-level creative leadership. The most sought-after specialties are brand identity, integrated campaign direction, and digital-first content. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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DESCRIPTION
Amazon’s Brand Innovation Lab is looking for a talented and passionate Conceptual Sr. Art Director to create one-of-a-kind campaigns for a wide range of brands across Travel, Fashion, Pets, CPG, and FinServ. You’ll partner with copywriters, designers, solutions managers and producers to create first-class customer experiences both on and offline by innovating with the Amazon canvas (Prime Video, Alexa, Twitch, etc). You'll lead projects and own client relationships, focusing on creating work that benefits the end customer while pushing the creative envelope from brief to execution.
This role will use data, insights and creativity to create campaign strategy and concepts, develop designs and the look and feel for experiences, as well as templates for never-before-done brand experiences that will solve customer problems, on and off Amazon platforms. You have strong conceptual, presentation, storytelling and project management skills, as well as digital media, and of course, an acute attention to detail.
The candidate’s portfolio should feature interesting, innovative, insight-driven campaigns and ideas that solve an advertiser problem through a variety of different media channels, including but not limited to video, social, digital, activations, radio, and outdoor. Their portfolio will include non-traditional mediums (i.e. not just film). This role will be client-facing, so having good presentation skills to share work in a succinct and compelling way is important.
Key job responsibilities
- Concept, design and execute innovative ads - campaigns and experiences for global brands
- Partner with copywriters, designers, program managers, developers, strategists and producers to create customer-focused solutions that deliver on advertiser objectives
- Independently lead campaigns and collaborate with internal teams, clients and external agency partners
- Deliver high-quality designs and stellar art direction for campaigns across different Amazon touch points
- In-depth understanding of Photoshop Suite, Figma, and AI tools
- Data-driven and obsessed with understanding customers and making work that delivers results
- Present ideas and concepts to clients, agencies and internally
- Proven ability to ideate across both traditional and non-traditional formats. Proven ability to create new mediums for advertising
- Ability to manage multiple projects at one time to make deadlines
- Mentor and inspire junior designers and creatives
A day in the life
- Partner with IMDb on how to create a reality content series for a travel brand
- Invent a product that helps revolutionize cooking with a CPG brand
- Present a campaign to brand clients and their partner media agency
- Design a trivia experience for a FinServ brand using Prime Video titles
- Review video edits for influencer product launch campaign
- Innovate what's next on Amazon for our fashion advertisers
About the team
Brand Innovation Lab (BIL) is an award-winning team that conceptualizes and executes bespoke advertising experiences for global brands—including Nike, Purina, Gap, Santander, and P&G—who invest in media with Amazon Ads, scaling successful campaign elements as new products or features in existing products. Our global team of storytellers and innovators includes creatives, strategists, design technologists, engineers, producers and more, collaborating to create customer-obsessed solutions across the Amazon canvas (Alexa, Twitch, Prime Video, Fire TV, etc.) that are customized to our advertisers' goals.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of driving compelling creative strategy and execution at an agency or in-house creative team experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Candidate must have an online portfolio or work samples that feature interesting, innovative, insight-driven campaigns and ideas that solve an advertiser problem through a variety of different media channels, including but not limited to video, social, digital, activations, radio, and outdoor.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience developing cross-functional relationships with product, consumer research and marketing teams to develop strategy and consumer insights that drive compelling creative executions
- Experience leading creative development of innovative creative from concept to delivery
- Experience presenting creative concepts effectively to senior executives
- Experience managing multiple projects and meeting aggressive deadlines
- Familiarity with generative AI tools (e.g., image generators, LLM-based copywriting assistants, video synthesis tools) and an understanding of how to incorporate them into creative workflows to accelerate ideation, production, and personalization at scale
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
COMPENSATION
- The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, NY, New York - 155,400.00 - 210,300.00 USD annually
DESCRIPTION
Amazon’s Brand Innovation Lab is looking for a talented and passionate Conceptual Sr. Art Director to create one-of-a-kind campaigns for a wide range of brands across Travel, Fashion, Pets, CPG, and FinServ. You’ll partner with copywriters, designers, solutions managers and producers to create first-class customer experiences both on and offline by innovating with the Amazon canvas (Prime Video, Alexa, Twitch, etc). You'll lead projects and own client relationships, focusing on creating work that benefits the end customer while pushing the creative envelope from brief to execution.
This role will use data, insights and creativity to create campaign strategy and concepts, develop designs and the look and feel for experiences, as well as templates for never-before-done brand experiences that will solve customer problems, on and off Amazon platforms. You have strong conceptual, presentation, storytelling and project management skills, as well as digital media, and of course, an acute attention to detail.
The candidate’s portfolio should feature interesting, innovative, insight-driven campaigns and ideas that solve an advertiser problem through a variety of different media channels, including but not limited to video, social, digital, activations, radio, and outdoor. Their portfolio will include non-traditional mediums (i.e. not just film). This role will be client-facing, so having good presentation skills to share work in a succinct and compelling way is important.
Key job responsibilities
- Concept, design and execute innovative ads - campaigns and experiences for global brands
- Partner with copywriters, designers, program managers, developers, strategists and producers to create customer-focused solutions that deliver on advertiser objectives
- Independently lead campaigns and collaborate with internal teams, clients and external agency partners
- Deliver high-quality designs and stellar art direction for campaigns across different Amazon touch points
- In-depth understanding of Photoshop Suite, Figma, and AI tools
- Data-driven and obsessed with understanding customers and making work that delivers results
- Present ideas and concepts to clients, agencies and internally
- Proven ability to ideate across both traditional and non-traditional formats. Proven ability to create new mediums for advertising
- Ability to manage multiple projects at one time to make deadlines
- Mentor and inspire junior designers and creatives
A day in the life
- Partner with IMDb on how to create a reality content series for a travel brand
- Invent a product that helps revolutionize cooking with a CPG brand
- Present a campaign to brand clients and their partner media agency
- Design a trivia experience for a FinServ brand using Prime Video titles
- Review video edits for influencer product launch campaign
- Innovate what's next on Amazon for our fashion advertisers
About the team
Brand Innovation Lab (BIL) is an award-winning team that conceptualizes and executes bespoke advertising experiences for global brands—including Nike, Purina, Gap, Santander, and P&G—who invest in media with Amazon Ads, scaling successful campaign elements as new products or features in existing products. Our global team of storytellers and innovators includes creatives, strategists, design technologists, engineers, producers and more, collaborating to create customer-obsessed solutions across the Amazon canvas (Alexa, Twitch, Prime Video, Fire TV, etc.) that are customized to our advertisers' goals.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years of driving compelling creative strategy and execution at an agency or in-house creative team experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Candidate must have an online portfolio or work samples that feature interesting, innovative, insight-driven campaigns and ideas that solve an advertiser problem through a variety of different media channels, including but not limited to video, social, digital, activations, radio, and outdoor.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience developing cross-functional relationships with product, consumer research and marketing teams to develop strategy and consumer insights that drive compelling creative executions
- Experience leading creative development of innovative creative from concept to delivery
- Experience presenting creative concepts effectively to senior executives
- Experience managing multiple projects and meeting aggressive deadlines
- Familiarity with generative AI tools (e.g., image generators, LLM-based copywriting assistants, video synthesis tools) and an understanding of how to incorporate them into creative workflows to accelerate ideation, production, and personalization at scale
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
COMPENSATION
- The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, NY, New York - 155,400.00 - 210,300.00 USD annually
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Senior Art Director Job Market in New York
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Who's Hiring
- Amazon2
- Wing Plumbing2
- Collabera1
- Momentum-Na1
- Ogilvy1
Top Industries Hiring
- Construction & Real Estate3
- Marketing & Advertising3
- Technology & Software1
What New York Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in senior art director jobs across New York.
- Portfolio demonstrating brand campaigns, art direction, and integrated creative work
- Bachelor's degree in graphic design, visual communications, fine arts, or a related field
- Seven or more years of art direction experience including team or junior staff oversight
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and presentation design tools
- Experience leading cross-functional projects with copywriters, strategists, and account teams
- Familiarity with New York media, publishing, or advertising production workflows and timelines
Senior Art Director Jobs in New York: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a senior art director in New York?
The path to a senior art director role in New York typically starts with a bachelor's degree in graphic design, visual communications, or a related creative field, followed by several years building an art direction portfolio in agencies, in-house teams, or editorial environments. New York has no state-issued license for art directors, so advancement is portfolio- and experience-driven. Working your way up through junior and midlevel roles at New York agencies or media companies, then demonstrating campaign ownership, is the standard route.
How much do senior art directors make in New York?
Senior art directors in New York earn a median of about $137,320 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $80,060 for the lowest 10% to over $280,320 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire senior art directors in New York?
Employers hiring senior art directors in New York right now include Amazon, Wing Plumbing, and Collabera, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. New York's dense concentration of advertising agencies, major fashion houses, and global media headquarters means senior art director demand stays active across both agency-side and in-house creative teams throughout the year.
Which New York cities have the most senior art director jobs?
New York have the most senior art director openings in New York. New York City drives the vast majority of demand given its concentration of global advertising agencies, fashion and publishing headquarters, and entertainment studios, while areas like Brooklyn have grown as independent creative studios and boutique agencies have expanded there over the past decade.
Are there remote senior art director jobs in New York?
Yes, and more than many creative roles, since art direction increasingly centers on digital deliverables and collaborative tools that work well remotely. About 56% of senior art director openings tied to New York are remote or hybrid as of June 2026, though fully remote positions are more common in digital-first companies than in traditional publishing or fashion. Campaign concepting, brand oversight, and digital content direction are the functions most often offered with remote flexibility.
How can I get hired as a senior art director in New York with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is landing a junior art director or designer role at a New York agency or in-house creative team, then building toward senior responsibilities over time. Large New York agencies and media companies regularly recruit through portfolio schools like the School of Visual Arts and Pratt Institute, and many run associate creative programs for emerging talent. Moving laterally from graphic design or content production roles is common, and a strong book of conceptual work carries more weight than years of experience alone.
Where can I find and apply to senior art director jobs in New York?
You can find and apply to senior art director jobs in New York on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers hiring in the state right now. Search the listings, find roles that match your experience and specialty, and apply directly to the ones that fit.
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