Art Director (intern)

The role

We’re a global creative agency, with more than 1500 people in 19 offices around the world, 150+ here in our Milan’s office. We deliver world-class creative campaigns and strategies based on social insights, for best-in-class brands.

At We Are Social we believe that teamwork and respect for everyone’s contribution can lead to great results. We believe that flexibility and the ability to adapt to changes by taking advantage of opportunities is a fundamental characteristic for achieving success. And we also believe that always looking for new challenges and going beyond what is due is the right attitude to always do better.

Art Direction Team

The Art Direction team at We Are Social is part of the broader Creative and Editorial department and is responsible for ensuring and evolving our clients’ visual identity across all types of content that we conceive, create, and manage for them on all social media channels. 

Role Purpose 

The Art Director (intern) at We Are Social has the main objective of conceptualizing and producing social content for our clients’ editorial plans, following their shared editorial guidelines. The purpose of the internship is to foster complete autonomy and responsibility in delivering ongoing content. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Co-definition of creative concepts, their execution, and detailed crafting
• Art direction for ongoing content, formats and  activations for the clients’ editorial plan 
• Execution and quality control of output during the creative production phase
• Study and development of visual identity and brand for reference clients
• Participation in defining and developing editorial strategy in terms of languages and visual formats
• Constant alignment with Creative and Client Service references

Requirements

• Degree in art direction, graphic design, or equivalent fields
• A previous short experience in creative agencies is really appreciate 
• Excellent knowledge and experience with Adobe Creative Suite
• Ability to work in extended and complex teams
• Competence and mastery across different media, formats, tools, and techniques of visual communication
• High affinity and passion for social media.
• Intuition for current trends and developments.
• A good knowledge of English is a nice to have

Benefits

• Career Path Design – quarterly check-in moments and annual evaluations that will allow us to discuss your professional growth within WAS.
• WAS Passport – opportunity to work for two weeks per year in all offices of our global network.
• Bottom Up & Top Down professional training.
• Mental Health CSR and Diversity & Inclusion activities.
• Smart working up to two days per week.

Contract and Remuneration:

• 6-month full-time internship (40 hours per week).
• €800 net monthly salary.
• €5.29 meal voucher for each working day.

We Are Social is an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.

We promote the inclusion and work integration of people belonging to protected categories – as regulated by Law 68/99.

This job opportunity is addressed to both sexes, in accordance with Laws 903/77.