Art Director

At Capgemini Invent, we help our clients to embrace innovation and transformation to get the future they want.

 

By combining strategy, technology, data science, and creative design expertise with an inventive mindset, we partner with our clients to innovate and transform their business, helping them navigate today, while plotting a course for the future.

 

About Capgemini

As the digital innovation, design and transformation brand of the Capgemini Group, Capgemini Invent enables CxOs to envision and shape the future of their businesses. Located in more than 36 offices and 37 creative studios around the world, it comprises a 10,000+ strong team of strategists, data scientists, product and experience designers, brand experts and technologists who develop new digital services, products, experiences and business models for sustainable growth.

Capgemini Invent is an integral part of Capgemini , a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2021 global revenues of €18 billion

 

Our brand promise “Get The Future You Want” reflects our passion for people and technology and highlights the company’s commitment to inclusion and sustainability.

An important aspect of ‘Get the Future You Want’ is to balance hybrid ways of working between your Capgemini office, home, and client location (where applicable).  We recognise that it is an imperative to create flexibility so you can enjoy an optimal work-life balance and feel empowered to achieve success.  When you come onboard, or before, please discuss this with your manager so you can agree the best ways of working for your role, team, and client.

 

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An overview of the role:

The Art Director is an internal role in the Global Marketing team, responsible for the direction and brand evolution of the frog visual expression. This position leads the direction design and strategy for frog’s marketing program. You will have primary responsibility for frog marketing projects as a day-to-day design leader and guide designers, technologists, program managers and editors. You should be eager to involve colleagues and stakeholders in the design process, highly responsive to feedback, and excited to present your team’s ideas in front of executives. Visual design at frog balances spirit and rationality; brand and application; functional clarity and emotional impact.

 

Why this role?

As the Art Director for frog,  you’ll help set the direction, driving forward the business, model our values and behaviours, and coach and develop junior members of the team.  Key expectations from this role include:

• Lead a team of two / three designers to achieve the highest level of performance without compromising timelines and team harmony.
• Set quality standards for the frog brand, with a deep understanding of the audience, business requirements and constraints.
• Lead and contribute to develop insights, define, and prioritize opportunity areas, and envision concepts for new initiatives for the frog brand.
• Manage direct reports and coach and mentor junior colleagues, providing guidance and support for their growth, and specific and actionable feedback.

We'd love to meet someone with:

• Extensive professional visual design experience
• Highly developed design skills, demonstrated in your portfolio of recent work
• Experience in branding strategy supported by critical analysis of business KPI review.
• Proficiency with contemporary research, design and prototyping tools and methods
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills, with the ability to guide high performing teams using persuasion and influence (rather than command and control)
• Experience collaborating in multifunctional teams as the visual design lead
• An outstanding track record as a design leader and contributor for experience strategies, design systems, products, services and customer experiences that delight customers/users and achieve business results
• Strong presentation and storytelling skills
• Preferably good management consulting experience
• A cademic, professional, or life experience from outside the design field that enriches your perspective as a designer
• Business level ability in English

As part of your application, please include a link or PDF of your portfolio of recent work, highlighting your abilities and experience relevant to the role, with specific examples of how you work, think, collaborate, and contribute to great design outcomes. Please note that we are unable to accept any applications without a portfolio.

Why Capgemini is unique

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work.

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. Through our New Normal campaign, we are looking to embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

Collaboration and Innovation:

We really believe in creating a partnership with our customers. Using our Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE), you’ll get to know the customer’s needs and challenges, demo innovative solutions and quickly solve problems. It’ll help you discover unexpected answers together.

 

Learning and development:

There’s an endless amount to learn at Capgemini, and an endless number of ways to do so.  So, you’ll also have unique training opportunities to take advantage of. Some of our consultants even have the chance to go to Les Fontaine (near Paris, France), where we host a conference.  Outside of dedicated training, everyone makes time to help and support one another - collaboration is encouraged across all of our teams.

CSR:

We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about.  In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing.