Senior Art Director, Back Market
+ Equity
Online marketplace for refurbished electronics
Posted today
Online marketplace for refurbished electronics
501-1000 employees
Posted today
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To restore trust and desire for refurbished devices.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in art direction, design leadership, or a related field, with a strong background in brand marketing and social media content creation
- A proven track record of delivering high-quality, culture-defining creative that stands out in competitive markets
- Expertise in digital storytelling, with a keen understanding of social media trends, platform dynamics, and audience engagement
- A strong design leadership mentality, with the ability to mentor, guide, and elevate creative teams
- A strategic mindset, with the ability to align brand storytelling with business goals while maintaining exceptional creative quality
- Mastery of design tools (Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, etc.) and a strong understanding of motion design, typography, and composition
What the job involves
- Join our growing In-House Creative Agency as a Senior Art Director, specializing in brand marketing, product storytelling, social media, and video content
- In this role, you will drive creative excellence, shape visual storytelling, and set the creative vision for Back Market’s brand presence across digital and traditional platforms
- You’ll collaborate within a dynamic international team, working closely with overseas colleagues, cross-functional partners, and reporting to the Senior Lead Art Director
- As a Senior Art Director , you’ll be responsible for pushing the boundaries of brand creativity, ensuring a best-in-class design approach that strengthens Back Market’s cultural relevance and global impact
- Your expertise in visual design, social media storytelling, and brand communication will be instrumental in crafting high-impact campaigns from concept to execution
- Lead the execution of Back Market’s global design identity across multiple channels, including traditional advertising (film, out-of-home, print), digital (website, app, digital ads), social media (motion & static content), and experiential activations
- Drive creative excellence across all marketing and social media communications, ensuring innovation and consistency in brand expression
- Own the visual storytelling for Back Market’s social media platforms, ensuring a unique and culturally relevant aesthetic that differentiates the brand
- Collaborate closely with the in-house social media team to conceptualize, design, and produce engaging content that drives audience connection and brand affinity
- Mentor and inspire junior designers and art directors, fostering a culture of innovation, growth, and high design standards
- Partner with external creators including designers, illustrators, animators, filmmakers, and experiential designers to push creative boundaries and bring campaigns to life
- Elevate Back Market’s brand impact globally through highly crafted, breakthrough creative
- Design social-first content that resonates with cultural moments and trends, establishing Back Market as a leader in digital storytelling
- Champion and evolve the Brand Visual Identity, ensuring consistency and high standards across all touchpoints
- Push the brand’s mission—“do more with what we already have”—into the future with bold, innovative creativity
- Transform Back Market into a household name that is widely recognized, trusted, and admired
- Long-term goal: Define and develop a distinct visual world and social identity across Back Market’s social media channels, ensuring long-term brand cohesion and recognition
Our take
At a time when new smartphones launch frequently but with fewer new features and when individuals want to contribute to sustainability and the circular economy, Back Market is setting out to provide customers with a viable option of purchasing refurbished electronics goods.
The vision of the company is to become the default choice when it comes to electronics purchases, irrespective of the customers' budget. In order to materialize this vision, Back Market guarantees that all the devices sold on its platform are 100% functional. The company screens sellers before allowing them to join its platform and it monitors their performance in real-time by collecting detailed customer feedback. By doing this, they hope to restore trust in refurbished devices and to make sustainability an easy, safe, and affordable choice.
Back Market operates in 16 counties and has a client roster that includes Netflix, Disney, BBC, Sony, and Apple. The company has raised over $1 billion in capital, which has been invested in expansion across new and current markets.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- An attractive salary that comes with equity options, health insurance, paid maternity and parental leave, 401K, commuter benefits, mental health support, and more,
- Flexible working hours and hybrid models that let you choose which days you to work in the office and at home (because work-life balance is an individual right)
- Professional development programs, internal mobility, and the opportunity to make your career what you want it to become
Company HQ
19th arrondissement of Paris, Paris, IDF
Leadership
Previously Logistic Export Assistant at Devanlay Lacoste and Account manager at Neteven.
Vianney Vaute
(Chief Creative Officer)Previously Digital Strategist at Visual Link, Strategic Planner at BETC Paris and Strategist at Five by Five.
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