About Guaranteed Rate: Guaranteed Rate is the 2nd-largest retail mortgage lender in the U.S. By offering industry-leading tools, low-rate mortgages, and unparalleled customer service, we’ve become the Home Purchase Experts®. At Guaranteed Rate, we think big – pushing beyond what most people believe is possible. We strive to work with the best of the best, building business with the best referral partners and hiring the best employees – allowing us to deliver world-class customer service. Our goal is to make sure every customer has a great experience. Headquartered in Chicago with 5,000+ employees in 300+ offices across the U.S. and licensed in all 50 states, we’ve helped thousands of homeowners with more than $37 billion in home purchase loans and refinances in just the past year alone.
Guaranteed Rate is on the hunt for an Art Director to join our innovative creative team. Take the lead in crafting a powerful brand story with us!
Pay Range: 80-110k
Job Description: Are you ready to elevate brand storytelling and design compelling visual communications? As an Art Director at Guaranteed Rate, you will create impactful and effective designs that shape our brand identity and enhance our marketing efforts. Your innovative and cohesive campaigns will build brand equity and leave a lasting impression.
Why Join Us?
At Guaranteed Rate, you’ll be part of a team that’s redefining the future of the mortgage industry. We’re committed to leading with AI, speed, and technology while staying dedicated to consumer satisfaction. If you’re passionate about making big moves and creating impactful, innovative designs, we want to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead creative innovation: Conceptualize and execute design solutions that strategically and creatively communicate our marketing and campaign initiatives.
- Collaborate and inspire: Work closely with a dynamic team of art directors, designers, and copywriters to deliver creative guidelines and ensure quality and consistency at scale.
- Drive projects from start to finish: Oversee the entire design process from initial concept to final production, ensuring each project exceeds expectations.
- Engage stakeholders: Partner with key stakeholders across departments and within our Creative team to align on innovative solutions that delight customers and drive business success.
- Evolve our brand: Push the boundaries of our brand by exploring unique ideas, production processes, and creative solutions.
- Maintain visual excellence: Ensure consistency and quality across all work by sharing progress, providing thoughtful critique, and collaborating with brand designers, copywriters, partners, and leadership.
- Execute with precision: Deliver high-quality, pixel-perfect designs for digital advertisements, website graphics, social media content, email templates, and print collateral.
- Create impactful campaigns: Develop and execute creative concepts for marketing campaigns that align with our brand and strategic objectives.
Qualifications: 6+ years of experience in related art direction/design roles at agencies, studios or in-house.
A portfolio demonstrating robust conceptual and technical design skills across diverse deliverables
Fluent with the Adobe Creative Suite & Figma.
Fluent in After Effects and other applicable motion software.
Experienced in creating compelling visuals across various brand touchpoints including digital experiences, performance marketing channels, social media content, OOH and more that elevate and evolves brand aesthetics.
Experienced in core design fundamentals including typography, composition, color theory, and brand guidelines with great attention to detail and consistency.
Proactivity, clear communicator and problem solver that can anticipate questions, independently assess solutions, and think critically and creatively.
Are supremely organized and exercise stellar time-management skills.
Confident and collaborative creator that inspires others to come together on a common goal.
Demonstrates exceptional initiative, attention to detail, and follow-through executed at a high level of craftsmanship.
Ability to thrive in a multifaceted, feedback-forward creative environment where tasks, priorities, and projects change rapidly.
Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and web design principles is a plus but not required.
Guaranteed Rate is an Equal Opportunity Employer that welcomes and encourages all applicants to apply regardless of age, race, sex, religion, color, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital or parental status, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy or other reason protected by law.
