Director of Art, Design

Role Overview

• Lead the Art & Design department across all Acquisition.com brands
• Manage designers, motion designers, thumbnail designers, and future creative specialists
• Set design standards, review processes, creative benchmarks, and performance expectations
• Build a culture of speed, iteration, and excellence without creative ego or bottlenecks
• Own thumbnail strategy and output across Alex, Leila, and Sharran’s YouTube ecosystems
• Build repeatable systems for testing, iterating, and improving CTR through design
• Create brand-specific thumbnail rulesets while maintaining scalability across the department
• Collaborate with creative producers and marketing to align packaging with video performance goals
• Build scalable visual identity systems for each brand that apply across long-form, social, and marketing assets
• Ensure all assets feel cohesive, premium, and aligned with Acquisition.com positioning
• Maintain and evolve style guides, design libraries, templates, and brand assets
• Create systems that allow design output to increase without reinventing the wheel every time
• Own creation and delivery of in-episode graphics, lower thirds, overlays, title sequences, and motion packages
• Build reusable motion systems that can be deployed across multiple shows and formats
• Ensure design output improves storytelling and clarity, not just aesthetics
• Create fast-turn systems for social graphics and promotional assets tied to episode launches
• Identify, test, and implement AI tools that increase speed of design production and iteration
• Partner with Tech team to build AI-assisted workflows for thumbnails, visual concepting, image generation, background design, mockups, and graphics
• Create internal AI playbooks and expectations for how the design team operates
• Ensure AI output meets brand quality standards and does not create sloppy or generic visuals
• Work closely with post-production and content teams to ensure design integrates cleanly into editing workflows
• Collaborate with marketing team to align ad creative, funnels, and visual messaging with content assets
• Build a shared service model where design becomes a reliable internal resource across all ACQ business units rather than an external bottleneck
• Transition key design functions from external vendors to internal team execution
• Ensure internal team can deliver higher quality work faster than vendors
• Maintain clear tracking of what work is still outsourced, why, and when it gets brought in-house

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in design leadership, creative direction, or high-output digital media environments
• Proven experience managing a team of designers across multiple deliverables and deadlines
• Strong understanding of YouTube packaging, thumbnail psychology, and performance-driven creative
• High taste level with the ability to create premium visuals that still optimize for clicks
• Experience with motion graphics and post-adjacent workflows is strongly preferred
• Comfortable building systems, templates, and scalable workflows (not just designing assets)
• Deep familiarity with AI tools in creative design OR demonstrated obsession with learning and implementing them
• Ability to move fast, iterate constantly, and maintain quality at high volume
• Strong communicator with the ability to collaborate across post, production, content, and marketing

Benefits

• Flexible Unlimited Paid Time Off and Company-wide Holidays
• Employer sponsored Medical, Dental, & Vision plans
• $1,950 annual Employer HSA contribution
• FSA options including dependent care
• Employee assistance program and mental health resources
• Employer match program for 401(k), eligible for both Traditional and Roth accounts
• $1,200 annual wellness reimbursement through JOON that supports health, family care, pet care, fitness, and more!
• For local or visiting team members, enjoy access to a state of the art gym at our HQ in Las Vegas