Who We Are:
At Brooks, we believe movement is the key to feeling more alive. That’s why we’re driven to create gear and experiences that take people to the place that makes them feel more alive — whether it’s a headspace, a feeling, or a finish line.
Everyone who works at Brooks is propelled by a company culture that sparks excitement, fuels collaboration, inspires creativity, and ignites innovation.
Our brand values help bond us together and drive our success:
- Runner First
- We act in the best interest of the runner
- Word is Bond
- We do what we say we’ll do
- Champion Heart
- We give our all in everything we do
- There is no “I” in Run
- We stay generous with our humanity
- Keep Moving
- We find ways to move every day, because joy is kinetic!
We welcome everyone from every walk of life looking to inspire others through the power of movement - because we’re all moving towards something. Let’s run there.
Your Job:
The Brooks Global Creative team is dedicated to imagining, designing, curating, and manifesting creative concepts, campaigns, and assets that define and express the Brooks brand. As the Art Direction Manager at Brooks, you will own complex productions and projects while developing and providing guidance to other Art Directors on the team creating photography and video assets to be used across the breadth of marketing assets (i.e., print, retail, packaging, social media, events).
Your creative vision, energy, and insights into runners will equip you to drive projects from concept development, video and photo art direction, and story board planning to on-set creative leadership and collaboration with partners in retouching, video editing, color, and motion graphics. You are a highly motivated self-starter who is detail- and quality-oriented with the ability to handle multiple competing priorities. You are comfortable working in the gray and trust your years of experience to anticipate outcomes, continually raising the creative bar for Brooks and its audience.
Lead art direction for image and video from concept pre-production to final video and images postproduction, including concept and art direction, story boards, location and talent choices, story themes, on-set lead, image and footage selects, crop recommendations, final cuts, cut downs, music, application of motion graphics, and final color.
Lead, conceptualize, and develop the creative playbook for editorial, lifestyle, and ambient projects.
Own and define image art direction for brand expression collaborating with senior managers and creative directors to evolve seasonally as appropriate.
Work hand-in-hand with the Styling Manager and team to ensure strong collaboration and unified vision for each production that comes through the Lab.
Partner with Copywriting to develop story concepts for video that are both breakthrough and on brief.
Partner with Image and Video stylists to define casting choices and outfit selection for each image and video production assigned.
Partner with Video and Photo Production to develop a production plan and lead art direction for image and video productions assigned.
Partner with project partners across Marketing, Creative, and other business teams for video and image projects to develop and refine production planning and processes that will create efficiencies but not impede quality of final assets.
Select final image assets, provide retouch notes, and review with creative leadership and stakeholders.
Lead, collaborate, and prepare concepts, storyboards, and visual art direction and present to stakeholders and senior leaders.
Be the on-set lead for creative and ensure that image and video assets are captured as planned while staying within production time limits.
Direct freelance creative partners (i.e., photographers, videographers, retouchers, production agencies, motion graphic designer, and producers).
Lead and mentor designers and art direction leads in image and video art direction.
Creative portfolio demonstrating best in class image and video excellence with major consumer brands; please add your online portfolio link at the top of your resume when applying
Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or related field; equivalent combination of education and years of experience can be considered in lieu of degree(s)
7+ years of experience as an art director for image and video
5+ years of experience art directing photographers, video directors, and creative production agencies
Lead creative role within an agency or with an in-house creative team preferred
Expert knowledge in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, CaptureOne, and Figma
Excellent interpersonal skills that inspire and build trust resulting in effective working relationships across the company
Keen attention to detail in planning, organization, and execution of tasks, while still seeing the big picture and understanding how all the pieces fit together and affect one another
Ability to anticipate how a decision made can affect our customers, our partners, our products, or other departments’ operations and/or morale, “connecting the dots”
Ability to change the status quo – always looking at improving our products and processes while also displaying a willingness to dive into the details
Ability to understand and empathize with the runner to develop loyal, engaging relationships with our customers and the Brooks community
Travel 40% - domestically and internationally
Embraces and lives the Brooks values!
