Art Director

**About Clutch:** We're on a mission to reinvent the way people buy, sell, and own cars. Are you game? Clutch is Canada's largest online used car retailer, delivering a seamless, hassle-free car buying and selling experience to drivers everywhere. Customers can browse hundreds of cars from the comfort of their home, get the right one delivered to their door, and enjoy peace of mind with our 10-Day Money-Back Guarantee… and that's just the beginning. Named to The Globe and Mail's list of Canada's Top Growing Companies for six consecutive years and also awarded spots on Deloitte's Technology Fast 50™ and Fast 500™ lists, we're looking to add curious, hard-working, and driven individuals to our growing team. Headquartered in Toronto, Clutch was founded in 2017 and currently services Ontario, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. Clutch is backed by a number of world-class investors, including D1 Capital, Altos Ventures, BMO Capital Partners, Canaan, Real Ventures, and others. To learn more, visit clutch.ca. **About the role:** We're looking for an Art Director to lead concept development for Clutch. Our creative team executes at a high bar; this role adds the thinking behind it. You'll turn business and audience insight into strategically sound concepts, then art-direct them across campaigns, product, social, and retail. This is a hands-on role for a master of craft who is fluent across design tools and formats and obsessed with getting the work right, whether that means building rigorous design systems or pushing a bolder idea than anyone expected. If you're an Art Director looking to really contribute to a brand's success and actually move projects from concept to reality, this is the place for you. **What you'll do:** * Lead concept development and ideation with the Creative Director for campaigns, brand moments, and customer experiences, grounding ideas in business context and audience insight. * Own daily art direction: set the visual bar, direct photo, video, motion, and design production, and keep the work sharp from first sketch to final asset. * Run creative reviews and approval within the design team and external partners, giving clear, actionable feedback that makes the work better and the team stronger. * Move fluidly between concept and hands-on execution across a range of design tools and mediums, building out designs across product, video, experiential and digital. * Concept and service the marketing departments advertising needs, building tools that contribute towards our self service 'creative engine'. * Use data and creative learnings to sharpen future concepts and continuously improve the work. * Increase the creative team's output whilst raising craft and originality. **What Success Looks Like:** * Develop bold, strategically grounded concepts for campaigns and brand experiences. * The quality and craft of the team's creative work has visibly risen through your art direction, feedbac