Manager, Multimedia Design & Art Direction
- Employer
- University of Virginia
- Location
- Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
At UVA Health, creativity has the power to inspire hope, strengthen our brand, and transform how people experience healthcare.
The Manager, Multimedia Design & Art Direction reports to the Head of Creative and leads the day-to-day operations of the Creative Studio. This role brings creative vision to life by leading and developing a talented design team, providing conceptual art direction across multidisciplinary projects, and building the operational structure that allows creativity to thrive.
Working closely with the Head of Creative, the Manager balances creative excellence with operational efficiency by establishing production standards, improving workflows, managing team capacity, and creating the bandwidth needed for both daily production and larger, more ambitious creative opportunities.
The ideal candidate brings demonstrated experience managing and developing creative teams, along with a strong portfolio that showcases conceptual thinking, art direction, and exceptional design execution. Previous people-management experience is required, and candidates must provide a link to a portfolio demonstrating their ability to develop original creative concepts and bring them to life across multiple channels and mediums.
Success in this role comes from building talented teams, championing strong creative ideas, establishing effective processes, and fostering an environment where people are challenged, supported, and inspired to do their best work.
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
- Build and manage a high-performing creative team that continues to grow in confidence, craft and collaboration.
- Raise the creative standard through thoughtful art direction, constructive critique, mentoring and coaching.
- Create efficient production workflows that give the team more time for design and creative thinking.
- Build trusted relationships that make collaboration easier across the organization.
- Help evolve the Creative Studio into a modern, innovative, world-class, empowered, and inspired creative team.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Multimedia Design & Art Direction
- Bring the creative vision established by the Head of Creative to life through exceptional design, art direction and execution across multimedia projects that include, but are not limited to - advertising, print, digital, e-mail, social, landing pages, logo creation, branding, presentations, environmental graphics, photography, video and motion graphics.
- Lead creative reviews that strengthen concepts, elevate execution and help designers communicate the rationale behind their work so that it clearly demonstrates how it connects with briefs and brand standards, while also moving the work forward.
- Develop presentation decks that clearly communicate creative concepts, design recommendations and visual direction for stakeholders and executive leadership.
- Partner with photography and video teams to create cohesive visual storytelling across campaigns and marketing initiatives.
Studio Operations
- Partner with Project Management to prioritize work, manage team capacity and balance production demands with opportunities for larger conceptual work.
- Establish production standards, workflows and quality control processes that improve consistency, efficiency and scalability.
- Track workload, studio capacity and operational performance, recommending improvements that strengthen productivity and creative impact.
Team Leadership
- Coach, mentor and develop designers through thoughtful feedback, creative critique and measurable performance conversations.
- Foster a collaborative, accountable and solutions-oriented culture where creativity, curiosity and continuous improvement are expected.
- Help identify future talent potential while supporting individual growth and career development.
Brand, Systems & Innovation
- Help evolve the UVA Health visual brand while maintaining consistency across all communications.
- Develop and maintain brand style guides, design systems, presentation templates and creative standards.
- Champion ADA accessibility standards, Digital Asset Management (DAM) best practices and scalable file organization.
- Leverage Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma and AI-assisted creative tools to improve ideation, collaboration and production efficiency.
Collaboration
- Build strong partnerships across Marketing, Communications, Photography, Video, Project Management and other stakeholders.
- Collaborate with the Head of Creative to refine concepts, strengthen creative execution and identify opportunities to elevate the Creative Studio.
- Support emerging communication channels, technologies and creative opportunities as organizational needs evolve.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Education & Experience: Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications or a related discipline, or equivalent experience, with at least seven years of progressive creative leadership experience in an agency or in-house creative environment.
- Creative Leadership: Demonstrated success leading designers through art direction, coaching, creative critique and performance feedback while building collaborative, high-performing teams.
- Design & Technical Expertise: Portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, integrated campaign development, branding, typography, presentation design and visual storytelling. Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud and Figma is required. Experience incorporating AI-assisted creative tools into professional workflows is expected.
- Studio Operations: Experience partnering with Project Management to prioritize work, manage creative capacity and improve production workflows. Experience with Digital Asset Management (DAM), file governance, ADA accessibility standards and scalable creative systems.
- Communication: Excellent presentation, communication and relationship-building skills with the ability to confidently present work, articulate creative rationale and build trusted partnerships across multidisciplinary teams.
- Industry Experience: Agency experience is strongly preferred. Experience working in healthcare, higher education or another complex enterprise marketing environment is a plus.
- Leadership & Innovation: Experience developing enterprise design systems, brand style guides and multidisciplinary creative teams. Familiarity with creative operations, workflow optimization, AI-enabled creative technologies and modern production processes
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Education: Bachelor’s Degree required.
Experience: 7+ years of relevant professional experience, to include 2+ years formal managerial experience required.
Licensure: None.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
This is primarily a sedentary job involving extensive use of desktop computers. The job does occasionally require traveling some distance to attend meetings, and programs.
The pay range for this role is $87,755.20 - $127,890.00 annually. Individual compensation will be determined by the selected candidate's qualifications, previous work experience, and/or education.Benefits- Comprehensive Benefits Package: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Retirement Savings
- Long-term and Short-term Disability
- Health Saving Plans, and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Certification and Education Support
The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity employer. All interested persons are encouraged to apply, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Learn more about UVA’s commitment to non-discrimination and equal opportunity employment.
Organization
In 1819, the University of Virginia established a new model for intellectual exchange and cross-disciplinary collaboration in higher education. Two hundred years later, as a major research institution, we continue to challenge conventions, lead with ingenuity and advance knowledge for the common good.
What began as an innovative idea has become one of the nation’s leading public research universities, with over 21,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. UVA also has over 3,000 full-time faculty offering more than 400 degrees.
Each of the University’s eleven schools has its own distinctive mission, working together to garner consistently high rankings—including #2 Best Value Public College (Princeton Review, 2016), #3 Public University in the Nation (U.S. News & World Report, 2016), and #3 Best Value Among Public Colleges (Kiplinger’s, 2016).
As we invest in and strengthen our research capabilities, UVA seeks new faculty ready to uncover new insights, rewrite old rules and collaborate on intellectual discoveries.
RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS THAT CROSS DISCIPLINES
As an R1 institution, the University’s research centers, consortia and laboratories are on the leading edge of discovery and technology, offering collaborative spaces for students and faculty to solve global problems.
Our professors are recognized members of major national scholarly and professional organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Our faculty’s engagement in interdisciplinary research is being facilitated by new research institutes specializing in everything from big data to brain functioning, and by cluster hires across schools.
NATIONALLY RANKED HEALTH SYSTEM
UVA is also home to a nationally renowned academic medical center and the UVA Health System, which serves a three-part mission to treat patients, conduct translational research and train medical practitioners in a wide variety of disciplines.
Established as the nation’s 10th medical school in 1825, the institution has since grown to include a 612-bed hospital and a Level I trauma center, nationally recognized cancer and heart centers, a Children’s Hospital, and primary and specialty clinics throughout Central Virginia.
The UVA Medical Center is consistently ranked among the nation’s best hospitals by the U.S. News & World Report magazine and has been named among the top 25 percent in seven specialties.
INSPIRING STUDENTS, INSPIRED TEACHING
The vast majority of UVA students come from the top 10% of their high school class, as well as from all 50 states, over 142 countries and a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. Despite their diversity, all UVA students share a love of learning and a drive to achieve.
One of the reasons students choose Virginia is our unique residential culture. At UVA, the community of students, faculty and staff personifies the Jeffersonian idea that living and learning are connected. The Academical Village was constructed to support a unique residential experience, with faculty living in the Pavilions, students occupying Lawn rooms and the world-famous Rotunda at its heart. The University’s residential culture continues to support this experience today—strengthened by students, faculty and staff rich in backgrounds, ideas and perspectives. Our unique culture is also paying dividends in innovation: UVA’s faculty have generated more than 130 patents since 2010.
Perhaps most importantly, faculty come to UVA knowing that instruction is as important as research, and they pride themselves on their many teaching awards. Our best professors look for ways to encourage, mentor and develop tomorrow’s leaders inside and outside the classroom.
LIFE IN CHARLOTTESVILLE
Living in Charlottesville you’ll find sophisticated restaurants, world-renowned wineries and breweries, cosmopolitan arts and music, friendly urban and suburban neighborhoods and a Piedmont landscape that has lured adventurous souls for centuries. No wonder the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research named Charlottesville the “happiest city in America” in 2014.
In addition to UVA and its health system, several major employers have facilities in Charlottesville, including State Farm, Northrop Grumman, the U.S. Department of Defense, GE and others. Charlottesville is also becoming a center for innovative start-up businesses. The University also actively helps spouses and partners of faculty members build their networks and pursue employment opportunities with a wide variety of area employers.
The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All interested persons are encouraged to apply including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
- Telephone
- 434-985-4532
- Location
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2420 Old Ivy
Charlottesvle
Virginia
22911-7433
United States
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