[Remote] Art Director, Commerce Media

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Tinuiti is the largest independent full-funnel marketing agency in the U.S., managing $4 billion in digital media. The Art Director, Commerce Media will set the strategic creative direction for commerce design across major platforms, lead high-stakes design work, and mentor team members while ensuring alignment with performance data and creative strategy.

Responsibilities

• Set the strategic creative direction for how we design across Amazon, Walmart, Instacart, Chewy, and emerging commerce platforms — defining the point of view, not just executing against it
• Lead the highest-stakes commerce design work across our top accounts, from A+ Content and Brand Stores to DPIs, video, and Commerce Media creative
• Know commerce creative systems thoroughly — and know exactly when and how to break it, bend it, or push past defaults to do work the platform hasn't seen before
• Translate Amazon, Walmart, and marketplace performance data into sharper creative decisions, and use it to defend, refine, or kill ideas with conviction
• Design with a sharp awareness of search and SEO best practices for e-commerce — understanding how creative interacts with discoverability, indexing, keyword strategy, and emerging surfaces like Amazon's Rufus and AI-driven shopping assistants
• Articulate the *why* behind every design choice — through the lens of the shopper, the platform, the brand, and the business outcome. Be able to articulate this internally and with clients
• Consult with retail operations, performance, and strategy teams as the senior creative voice on commerce; partner across functions to make the work smarter
• Serve as the creative lead on new business pitches and client engagements - building the narrative, leading the room, and helping close the commerce work that defines our practice
• Mentor design, copy and other studio team members across the commerce team, raising craft, rationale, and judgment across the board
• Develop frameworks, POVs, and thought leadership that position Tinuiti as the definitive voice in commerce creative
• Stay ahead of platform changes, beta features, and module rollouts — and turn them into client opportunity before competitors catch on
• Present at the highest levels with confidence, clarity, and a point of view clients remember

Skills

• You have 8+ years of design experience, with significant time designing for Amazon and at least one other major commerce platform
• You're a recognized as an expert in the Commerce Creative ecosystem — A+ / Premium A+, Stores, DPIs, video, Sponsored Brands — and you understand the data behind what actually performs
• You have a track record of work that reframed what a platform could do, not just work that followed the spec sheet
• You can lead senior client conversations and pitch rooms, presenting and defending creative thinking at an executive level
• You're fluent in commerce performance data and use it to make creative sharper, not safer
• You can articulate strategy as confidently as you can design — the why matters as much as the what
• You're comfortable operating across creative, retail operations, performance, and sales, and translating between them
• You've worked in an agency or with retail or commerce brands at scale
• You have a portfolio that proves all of the above

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Healthcare: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability, Flex Spending Accounts
• Retirement: Match up to 4% of your contributions at 100%
• Perks and Wellness: Fringe, Forma, Unlimited Telemedicine and Teletherapy available at no cost, Thankful giving, Equity
• Parental Leave: Birthing parents receive 16 weeks of leave with 100% pay (partners 12 weeks) after the birth or adoption of a child.
• Learning and Development: On-demand learning, mentorship program, leadership and management development programs and resources

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