Posted 3 months ago
Creative Art Director
@ Lifted, an Upwork Company™
Edmonton, Alberta
Overview
Lifted, an Upwork Company, is building a talent pool of creative art directors for contract engagements with its enterprise partners. The role leads creative vision and concept development across campaigns, directs multidisciplinary creative teams through to execution, and approves work for brand consistency. The posting states it is a contractor engagement and not tied to one specific project.
Responsibilities:
- Lead creative vision and concept development across campaigns
- Direct multidisciplinary creative teams through to execution
- Review and approve creative work for brand consistency
- Provide on-set art direction during photo and video shoots
- Present creative work and incorporate feedback
Requirements summary:
- Senior creative leadership overseeing visual direction
- Ability to translate business strategy into creative platforms
- Experience managing creative presentations and pitch development
- Experience mentoring and setting craft standards
Tools & skills
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · smartrecruiters
- Employer posting date
- 2026-08-19
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-08
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-09
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Design & creative |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Work setting | Office, Client sites |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
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Lifted, an Upwork Company™
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One solution built for enterprise companies to source, contract, manage, and pay any type of contingent talent.
Full company description
Lifted is the first talent, country and contract agnostic contingent workforce management solution, unifying the ability to source, contract, manage, and pay any type of contingent talent, anywhere in the world. Designed to embed into existing contingent workforce ecosystems, Lifted provides enterprises with global reach, embedded compliance, and a seamless experience across the entire contingent workforce.
- LinkedIn followers
- 6,800
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 282
- Business categories
- Information Technology
- Internet
- Other recorded names
- Lifted
- Lifted, an Upwork Company™
- Lifted, an Upwork Company
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 0
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
Lifted is the first talent, country and contract agnostic contingent workforce management solution, unifying the ability to source, contract, manage, and pay any type of contingent talent, anywhere in the world. Designed to embed into existing contingent workforce ecosystems, Lifted provides enterprises with global reach, embedded compliance, and a seamless experience across the entire contingent workforce.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology, Information and Internet |
| Company size | 201-500 employees |
| Organization type | Public Company |
| Year founded | 2025 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 31 |
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Company Description
About Lifted
Lifted partners with enterprise companies to help them scale smarter. We offer a single solution designed to source, contract, manage, and pay contingent talent. For talent in our network, Lifted provides access to enterprise-level projects while handling engagement setup, contracting, compliance, and payments in the background, so you can focus on delivering high-quality work.
Job Description
Why We’re Building a Talent Pool
We’re continuously building our network of experienced talent across Creative Art Directors who are interested in being considered for full or part-time employment engagements with assignments to work with our enterprise partners. While this is not tied to one specific project, selected candidates may be matched to future employment opportunities based on experience, availability, and alignment with project needs.
Qualifications
What We Look For
- Lead creative vision, concept development, and brand expression across campaigns and channels
- Translate business strategies and consumer insights into compelling creative platforms
- Direct multidisciplinary creative teams (design, copy, motion, production) through concepting to execution
- Review and approve creative work to ensure consistency, quality, and adherence to brand standards
- Partner with marketing, product, global/regional creative, and leadership to align on strategy and creative direction
- Manage creative presentations, storytelling, narrative frameworks, and pitch development
- Mentor and elevate talent; set craft standards and creative culture expectations
- Make final decisions on creative concepts, visual tone, and brand identity evolution
- Develop visual concepts, storyboards, and creative territories for campaigns and content
- Guide designers, photographers, videographers, and copy partners in executing visual direction
- Oversee composition, typography, color, layout, and brand visual identity application
- Provide on-set art direction during photo/video shoots
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure brand consistency across deliverables
- Present creative work internally and incorporate feedback
- Ensure all assets meet brand style guidelines and quality standards
Additional Qualifications (if relevant)
- Background in Senior creative leadership overseeing visual direction & concept development.
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