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Creative Art Director Jobs in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands at Chuck Studios

Title: Creative Art Director

Company: Chuck Studios

Location: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

WANNA JOIN US TO MAKE FOOD FAMOUS?

Chuck Studios is on the hunt for a Senior Creative Art Director with a passion for Food and Drinks. We are looking for someone eager to help grow our Culinary Identity business for clients worldwide.

As Art Director, you develop the ideas, shape the (presentation) story, and set a clear creative standard from the first thought through to execution. You love food and drinks brands, and you know how to make work that feels distinctive and instantly recognisable. You appreciate brands with designs that stay consistent over time.

While you admire great brand campaigns, your real passion lies in helping clients make their products the ultimate distinctive and recognisable asset of their brand. Chuck Studios does not create brand campaigns. We create Culinary Identities, in which we let the food speak the brand.

You will work with some of the world’s largest and most iconic brands, including Heineken, Mars, KFC, PepsiCo, Barilla, Flora, McDonald’s, Tony’s Chocolonely, Heinz and many others.

Responsibilities:

  • Deliver art direction from concept to execution across stills and film, with support from the Senior Art Director and Creative Director
  • Turn strategic inputs into clear creative ideas, visual worlds, and ownable brand codes
  • Create treatments, layouts, key visuals, mockups, and storyboards that bring the idea to life
  • Build and maintain Culinary Identity frameworks and toolkits that help brands show food in a unique and consistent way
  • Collaborate closely with production, directors, photographers, food stylists, and post production to deliver work at a high craft standard

Requirements:

  • 5 or more years of experience as an Art Director in an agency or in house environment
  • You can share a compelling portfolio that shows quality conceptual design thinking and art direction, and you can explain the choices you made
  • You are a confident presenter, and it shows in your decks and delivery, from structure and layout to the way you tell the story
  • You are proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, Keynote/Pitch
  • Your English is perfect, speaking and writing
  • You are internationally oriented and comfortable working across brands, markets, and cultures
  • You are eager to work for food and drink brands
  • You are a true team player who lifts the people around you
  • You are located in the Amsterdam area
  • You comply with our strict no asshole policy
  • If you apply to this job, please show your understanding of a Culinary Identity
  • Tell us: which brand has a strong Culinary Identity, and why?

Skills:

  • You have a sharp eye for design and use it to bring ideas to life
  • You think strategically and know how to take an idea from concept to execution
  • You can build kick-ass decks with strong structure and layout
  • You are interested in trends in global food and drinks advertising
  • You have a real interest in shaping the frameworks of a brand’s unique and consistent food depiction, what we call Culinary Identity
  • You enjoy leading in house film directors, photographers, and producers to bring concepts to life

Reporting line:

The Culinary Identity team consists of the Managing Partner, Creatives, and Project Managers. You will report directly to our Creative Director, and you work together with our Sr. Art Director. You will collaborate closely with Chuck Studios’ team of specialists, including film directors, photographers, food stylists, SFX wizards, and set dressers, to bring your proposals to life.

The interview process will include conversations with the Culinary Identity team mentioned above, followed by a final meeting with our Managing Director.

About Chuck Studios

Chuck Studios is an inclusive, respectful, and empowering organization. We respect and embrace diversity in all its forms. We want everyone who joins our team to feel free and safe. We are committed to equal opportunity for all employees and applicants.

Some of our perks:

  • We offer an amazing vegetarian lunch, where we discover new flavours and recipes
  • We host a quite revolutionary yearly party
  • We host an occasional rave in our in-house nightclub Stupid
  • We host drinks at least every Friday, and often more
  • We celebrate everyone’s birthday with cake
  • We offer free boxing and HIIT training, twice per week
  • We don’t only work in food and drink, but love consuming them together

Please only respond to [email protected] with

  1. your portfolio,
  2. a very short motivation: “Why you are our new Senior Art Director to help create Culinary Identities”,
  3. your answer to: which brand has a strong Culinary Identity, and why?
  4. your resumé

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