Are you passionate about designing innovative, high-impact creative solutions for global brands?

As a Senior Designer at Smartly, you’ll play a pivotal role in developing and refining creative assets for Display and Social campaigns. You’ll collaborate closely with Art Directors, Developers, and cross-functional teams to deliver design solutions that are both visually compelling and strategically aligned with campaign goals.

You’ll work hands-on with Smartly’s creative tools and processes to produce innovative templates, motion designs, and flexible design systems that drive client success. This role combines creative problem-solving with execution excellence to ensure that all creative outputs meet the highest standards.

As a Senior Designer at Smartly, you will…

• Collaborate with Art Directors and Developers to create and refine display and social creatives for a variety of clients.
• Lead design projects from concept to delivery, ensuring creative solutions align with client objectives and brand guidelines.
• Develop innovative, reusable templates and design systems to streamline workflows and maximize efficiency.
• Apply motion design and animation techniques where needed, producing dynamic and engaging content.
• Contribute to the ideation and concept development of campaigns, providing creative feedback and solutions for complex challenges.
• Maintain meticulous attention to detail in all deliverables while managing multiple short- and long-term projects.
• Mentor and collaborate with junior designers, fostering a culture of creativity and process improvement.

We’re definitely looking for you, if you…

• Have 5+ years of experience as a Graphic Designer, Brand Designer, Visual Designer, or Art Director.
• Are proficient with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, XD) and design tools such as Figma.
• Have a strong understanding of design principles, visual hierarchy, and layout best practices.
• Bring excellent presentation, storytelling, and communication skills to articulate design concepts clearly.
• Have experience in digital advertising, HTML5, dynamic advertising, and motion design (preferred).
• Excel at collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful creative outputs.
• Can produce high-quality design deliverables with accuracy and attention to detail.
• Are able to prioritize and manage multiple projects effectively.
• Align creative decisions with user needs and business objectives.
• Are comfortable working with a rotating shift schedule.

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Role: GenAI Art Director 

Location:  Manila, Philippines

About the role: 

We’re looking for GenAI Art Director who will use the Pencil platform to deliver high quality, high performing ads to either enterprise clients or small businesses. You will likely have a team working with you and by nature of your expertise they will largely engage with you to resolve creative challenges they are coming up against and overcome the limitations of GenAI today.  

You will require deep experience with GenAI tools and what they can do for the advertising industry and for marketing clients - as well as the positivity, energy and lateral problem solving to explore and expand techniques to push beyond any perceived creative limitations.  One key measure of your success will be your ability to inspire a team with creative solutions day-to-day. Doing this successfully will deliver impact for our clients and fame for your work, as well as make you one of the leading voices of the GenAI revolution. 

Together with your team, you will develop digital concepts, art direction and assets that demonstrate exemplary standards in craft, whilst adhering to the client’s brand guidelines. Experience in Adobe After Effects / Motion graphics required.  

 
What you will be doing:  

• Must be a leader overseeing a team of creatives for both copy and design.  
• Art direct and produce high standards in craft and innovative work across platforms  
• A love of design, motion graphics and storytelling while best demonstrating GenAl capabilities within a systematic GenAI delivery process. 
• Be accountable for the full creative process from concept to execution. 
• Manage the preparation of all finished artwork files that will comply with the correct output specifications  
• Ensure all design work is aligned with the latest digital requirements and social trends  
• Handle multiple projects simultaneously and thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment . 
• Work with our Training team to actively explore, implement and explain new GenAl techniques to help our wider user base achieve high quality creative outputs 
• Work with our Product & Engineering teams to test new GenAl features and provide feedback to drive platform improvements 

What you need to be great in this role: 

• Strong in ideation and concepting from big ideas to digital and social campaigns  
• Strong art direction and visualisation skills from static to motion  
• Good understanding of the digital landscape and social assets development  
• Strong typographic skills  
• A highly creative integrated designer that can positively influence client briefs with your innovative ideas  
• Confident in bringing your own ideas and creativity to projects whilst working within a broad range of design guidelines across a variety of artwork collateral  
• Understanding of design principles and an awareness of UX, UI and Responsive Design trends  
• Effectively organising and prioritising workload to manage timely client delivery  
• Excellent Adobe CS skills. Experience in Adobe After Effects / motion graphics required  
• Ability to take ownership of projects from concept through to completion  
• Attention to detail and able to work under own initiative  
• Excellent project management skills  
• Excellent experience working closely with clients during kick-off  
• Confident in presenting work to internal teams and to clients  
• Believes in making this world a better place though meaningful work  
• Enjoys working in a fast-paced, changing client environment  
• A passionate, driven and enthusiastic creative  
• Never settling for good and constantly strives to deliver the best  
• Self-motivated, working with high accountability and little supervision  
• Collaborative team player with an open mind  
• Possess the aptitude to learn new software effectively  
• Passion for and inquisitive about AI and new technologies 
• Understanding and knowledge of AI tools is beneficial, but ability to learn and digest benefits and features of AI tools is critical 
• Willingness to learn and incorporate AI into design processes. 

Req ID: 17422

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We’re looking for a knowledgeable and self-starting Technical Art Director to help our clients get the most out of their Google Display creative and media with Smartly. This person will work closely with our clients and design team to drive innovation, provide design expertise, and safeguard our process.

As a Technical Art Director at Smartly, you will…

• Be the guardian of our creative process – in front of clients, and in collaboration with our design and production teams
• Lead conversations with clients about our process – what to expect at each stage, and what is needed from them
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with client services, creative leadership, design, production, project management and QA at every stage of the process
• Be on the lookout for areas of risk or friction, and take action to resolve issues within the process
• Share knowledge of best practices within digital advertising and content with clients, as it relates to our product and process.
• Advise, review and critique design outputs at all stages of the Smartly creative process.
• Know our product inside and out, and how clients can use Smartly with their own creative guidelines to get the most out of their campaigns.
• Explain complex topics – such as creative production techniques – to clients who may not have any design experience.

We're definitely looking for you, if you...

• Have minimum 5 years experience in digital advertising or studio management.
• BA or BFA in Graphic Design or equivalent experience.
• Are knowledgeable of the capabilities of HTML5 and principles of dynamic advertising is a must.
• Are knowledgeable of best practices in digital marketing and advertising.
• Are familiar with popular social media platforms.
• Have experience working with designers and creative teams.
• Are knowledgeable of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma and other industry standard tools
• Have excellent presentation and communication skills 
• Are skilled in the art of prioritizing and managing work and resources across engagements based on short- and long-term needs.

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Role: Creative Director - Art 

Location: Manila, Philippines

About the role: 

The Creative Director will oversee and direct conceptual and design projects, and will ultimately be responsible for the quality of ideas and the end-to-end design execution of jobs, from brief through to implementation and delivery. The Creative Director will have responsibility for overseeing multiple simultaneous live projects. 

The overall objective is to direct, inspire, lead and support all levels of design and creative talent across the account, defining and advancing a positive and highly productive design culture for OLIVER. 

It is the Creative Director's job: 

• To champion creativity and excellent customer centricity. 
• To creatively direct concept designers/graphic designers/artworkers/brand journalists/copywriters harnessing their development and performance, in a manner that assures maximum efficiency and creativity. 
• To upskill both design and copy teams to ensure their output is best in class compared to any other competing agency 
• To manage, supervise, review and audit the work of designers, artworkers and copywriters to ensure the creative level expected of OLIVER is being met. 
• To help drive maximum efficiency, productivity and the maintenance of the highest quality of creative concept, design and artwork. 
• To oversee, manage and review new creative concepts for both new and existing clients. 
• To undertake the design of digital collateral, to the client’s brief and exacting standards and within agreed timeframes. 
• To act as brand guardian to ensure all design collateral produced is faithful to the client’s brand guidelines. 
• To work actively with all internal and external stakeholders to ensure the delivery of the highest level of client service from OLIVER. 
• To collaborate closely with the Leaders to organise and prioritise workload, especially around deadlines. 
• Be flexible to respond to increases in workload/tight deadlines. 
• To build on our strong client relationships and to be the equal creative partner of the Group Account Director to drive new business forward with existing and new clients. 
• Attend company meetings and social events both with OLIVER and with the client. 
• To work with and support the OLIVER team in order to deliver excellent consumer experiences. 
• Some working outside of normal office hours might be required to meet deadlines and strategic objectives. 
• To inspire the team and help them think about innovative and ground breaking creative campaigns for brands across the biz. 

What you will be doing: 

• To work with the GAD and BD to define and implement the creative strategy for the studio. 
• To motivate and influence the creative team to constantly strive for excellence in performance. 
• To proactively monitor the quality of copy & design projects being produced and submitted by leading internal review sessions and seeking feedback from both internal and external stakeholders. 
• To oversee and manage the timely delivery of all jobs / projects going through the studio, always taking into consideration the clients’ requirements and expectations. 
• To investigate, propose and implement innovative ways of delivering creative services to maximise efficiency and productivity. 
• To actively oversee and manage team meetings, forward scheduling meetings and work review meetings. 
• To manage, oversee and coordinate the sharing of knowledge and the facilitation of learning within the team and all other employees to improve business practices, refine processes, aid and promote the development of creative ideas and introduce new services. 
• To organise monthly work / successes / learnings presentations to the wider SMT team to showcase work from the studio/team managed. 
• Attend client meetings, present work, discuss needs and identify opportunities. 
• To assign creative leads and develop accounts and creative teams. 
• To work actively with the workflow / studio manager in coordinating the effective allocation of design resource, facilitating information from colleagues, business managers and staff. In order to provide effective resource support to meet client demands and to cover flexible working, holiday and sick leave requirements in the most economical manner. 
• To act as brand guardian to ensure all design collateral produced by the creative team is faithful to the client’s brand guidelines. 
• To ensure all Unilever digital guidelines, and other mandatory processes and guidelines are always followed by the creative team and to be the final gatekeeper for all creative work before delivery. 
• To work actively with all internal and external stakeholders to ensure the delivery of the highest level of client service from all creative team members. 
• To manage, train and mentor staff and oversee their professional development through the setting of SMART objectives and PDPs, offering knowledge, motivation, support and experience as required, including but not limited to their creative and technical skill, so as to increase productivity, staff retention and enhanced staff morale. 
• With the assistance of Design Team Leaders, ensure all staff members accurately record timesheets and show positive billable utilisation rates within their timesheets.. 
• Other ad-hoc duties as and when required. 

What you need to be great in this role: 

The Creative Director will combine first-class design expertise, creativity and thought leadership with commercial acumen and leadership gravitas. 

The Creative Director will: 

• Be hands on with a strong focus on digital. 
• Be experienced in directing complex, commercial, design projects involving senior stakeholders and interdisciplinary creative teams with strong experience across FMCG category. 
• Be highly creative with the ability to generate ideas and practically contribute to copy and design details, demonstrating exceptional pure graphic design and typography skills. 
• Have deep technical design skills in one or more discipline, e.g. Design for Digital, Brand Immersion, Events, User Experience, etc. 
• Have a proven ability to communicate and liaise with all levels in the business. 
• Have a proven ability to influence stakeholders at all levels, including outside the design team. 
• Have a proven ability to effectively manage creative teams. 
• Have Director level written and verbal communication skills, including public speaking. 
• Be proficient in Adobe CC, Microsoft Office and other related software. 
• Be a driven, proactive, helpful, and enthusiastic team player. 
• Have excellent customer relationship skills. 
• Passion for and inquisitive about AI and new technologies 
• Understanding and knowledge of AI tools is beneficial, but ability to learn and digest benefits and features of AI tools is critical.

Req ID: 16944

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