Senior Art Director - Copenhagen

Are you ready to set creative direction, shape brand narratives and raise the bar for global brand communication?

As our new Senior Art Director, you will play a central role in defining and driving ECCO’s creative expression across channels and markets. You will act as a strategic thought partner and creative lead, ensuring brand first storytelling that connects meaningfully with consumers and strengthens ECCO’s global brand identity.

You lead creative direction across the consumer journey
This is a newly established, senior role within ECCO’s Global Marketing Creative function, created to strengthen and internalise creative capabilities. Reporting to the Group Director, Global Marketing Creative, you will work closely with Art Directors and cross functional partners across Brand Communications, Marketing, PR, Social and Production.

Your focus will primarily be on consumer facing brand communication, shaping how ideas come to life across the full consumer journey, while also contributing to internal storytelling. You will combine hands on creative leadership with a strong sense of ownership, setting direction while staying close enough to the work to ensure the highest level of craft.

Doing so, you will:

• Set and drive creative direction across campaigns, content and brand initiatives.
• Translate strategic briefs into strong, brand first creative concepts across touchpoints.
• Act as a sparring partner and mentor for Art Director, strengthening creative thinking and output.
• Lead projects end to end, ensuring clarity, quality and consistency throughout the process.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders to align creative ambition with business and brand priorities.

Join and help shape a growing in house creative team
You will become part of a newly formed global creative team that is building principles, practices and culture from the ground up. The atmosphere is collaborative, ambitious and supportive, with high standards and openness to testing, learning and improving together. We believe great creative is built through trust, curiosity and strong partnerships across functions and cultures. The role is based onsite in Copenhagen, with travel expected in connection with productions and collaboration.

You are a conceptual thinker with a strong storytelling instinct
We are looking for a senior creative with strong craft, clear creative leadership and a holistic understanding of brand communication. 

We imagine you bring:

• Solid experience working within the complexity of global brands, with a clear understanding of the full consumer journey and how creative connects across channels and markets.
• Strong hands on proficiency in core art direction and design tools such as InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom or Capture One, and relevant editing software.
• The ability to lead projects from concept to final delivery, combining strategic thinking with strong executional focus and accountability.
• Confident presentation and communication skills, with the ability to create followership and influence creative leaders, stakeholders and internal and external partners.
• A consistently high bar for quality and craft, with the motivation to strive for excellence and elevate creative output around you.

Please note that we are also hiring an Art Director. If you see yourself working at a less senior level or are ready to grow into a broader art direction role, we encourage you to explore that opportunity as well. Check it out at our career website ECCO Careers - Jobs. 

Do you thrive at the intersection of storytelling, design, and marketing?
If you are motivated by shaping creative direction, building strong brand expression and helping define how a global brand shows up in the world, we would love to hear from you. We review applications on an ongoing basis, and the vacancy is open until filled.

For questions about the role, feel free to reach out to Andrew Alvarez, Group Director, Global Marketing Creative, on andal@ecco.com.

Imagining yourself at ECCO? Get a glimpse of what your new exciting career entails on https://enter.ecco.com.

CREATE THE FOOTPRINTS OF TOMORROW 

Join us and you become part of a meaningful, developing and multicultural workplace with colleagues who are proud to create the footprints of tomorrow. Our offices and facilities around the world have an informal culture and relaxed dress code – our shoe code is slightly stricter.

Are you curious, passionate and ready to make an impact? Then you’ll fit right in.