Art Director, Dotdash Meredith
Hourly Rate (USD): $45
Digital & print publisher
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Digital & print publisher
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Hourly Rate (USD): $45
1001+ employees
Company mission
Dotdash Meredith's mission is to help people find answers, solve problems, and get inspired.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent education and experience
- 1-2 years as an Art Director, 5-10 years as a designer
- Strong typography skills
- Strong editorial design skills
- Strong design system skills
- Strong motion graphics skills
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere, After Effects, InDesign)
- Proficient in Figma
- Publishing industry experience
- Branding experience
- Self-motivated
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills
- A team player ready to work in a fast-paced environment
What the job involves
- One of our biggest brands, People, is looking for an Art Director to work closely with our Senior Creative Director and editorial leads to design static and motion content for a premium digital app
- In this role you will collaborate with internal stakeholders to create elevated editorial designs and help maintain intuitive, scalable, and always-on-brand templates that support our content strategy and engage and delight our audiences
- As an Art Director at the People App you will be responsible for doing competitive research, designing the look and feel of various brand elements and refining and iterating on those ideas for various stakeholders
- 40 hours a week
- Take ownership of assigned design projects and follow established processes to ensure smooth delivery of creative assets
- Work alongside the Senior Creative Director to set the People App’s overall look and feel, and ensure execution across teams is on brand
- Lead the creation of thoughtfully designed digital editorial content and graphic templates that seamlessly integrate with the App’s UI
- Collaborate with product design team, commerce and growth teams
- Help maintain digital brand guides
- Design 50%:
- Use requirements and stakeholder feedback to design premium visual assets, such as digital editorial static and motion designs and content templates, on an ongoing basis
- Collaborate with Editorial, Product, UX teams 30%:
- Teach digital producers how to use static and motion templates you have created as part of a larger design system
- Present design solutions and build consensus among a broad range of stakeholders
- Help build and maintain a happy and creative culture within the design team
- Participate in brainstorming and critique sessions that foster big picture thinking while identifying opportunities to raise the bar on the details
- Process Management 20%:
- Keep project management tickets up to date, communicate progress, keep files organized, monitor communication from stakeholders, and meet deadlines
Application process
- Start date: 4/1/2025
- End date: 6/30/2025 with potential to extend
Our take
Formed from the 2021 acquisition of Meredith by Dotdash, Meredith Dotdash is the largest digital and print publisher in the US, encompassing over 40 brands, such as PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell, Allrecipes, and many more.
The approach that built this media giant was to build websites with fast load-times and few adds. A clean site keeps readers longer, boosting its rankings in search algorithms. Ads can then be less frequent but sold at a premium, because of the readership. The company was also an early adopter of affiliate links through product reviews and articles that suggest items for purchase.
The merger of the Dotdash and Meredith teams and tech brought benefits in both directions, making Meredith sites faster and increasing story output for Dotdash. In 2023, the company launched a targeting tool named D/Cipher - that makes intent-based targeting possible at scale, without cookies. This showcases that the giant is entirely able to move at the front of the tech-evolving ad media landscape. Indeed, Meredith Dotdash is reportedly bucking the trend of news media financial downturns in 2025 with digital revenue increases of 13% year on year.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Complete medical/dental benefits
- Generous vacation and sick time
- Commuter program
- Discounted gym memberships
- Pet insurance
- 401(K) retirement plan
Company HQ
Battery Park City, New York, NY
Leadership
Neil Vogel
(CEO)Member of the Board of Directors at The Philadelphia Inquirer and Webby Media Group (Recognition Media), and a Venture Partner at FirstMark Capital.
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