Art Director

Posted 3 Days Ago
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Chicago, IL, USA
Hybrid
64K-95K Annually
Junior
Consumer Web • Food • Manufacturing
The Role
Develops brand identities, creative concepts, campaign toolkits, and production-ready visual assets across retail, digital, social, e-commerce, and web channels. Translates briefs, consumer insights, and business goals into commercially effective creative work. Supports photography and video production, presents concepts to stakeholders, collaborates with cross-functional teams, manages multiple projects, and explores generative AI and emerging creative technologies for CPG brands.
Summary Generated by Built In
Reporting to the Creative Director, you will play a hands-on role in building brands and developing original visual assets that support marketing initiatives and campaign ideas. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to deliver thoughtful, compelling work with consistency, precision, and strong attention to detail while staying current with emerging creative tools, technologies, and industry trends. You love design as a craft and understand how brands come to life across every consumer touchpoint. You will help shape and execute cohesive visual identities that drive brand awareness, engagement, sales, and conversion while supporting a portfolio of consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands.
A Taste of Your Responsibilities
  • Translate briefs, business goals, and consumer insights into strategically grounded creative concepts that build brand awareness, engagement, sales, and conversion.
  • Develop ideas from concept through final execution, creating mood boards, storyboards, style guides, and presentations that clearly communicate the creative vision.
  • Bring established brand systems to life across retail, shopper marketing, e-commerce, digital, social, web, and content platforms.
  • Design scalable campaign toolkits and production-ready materials, including advertising, retail creative, digital and social assets, and on-screen graphics.
  • Support and help direct photography, video, and content initiatives from pre-production and on-set collaboration through post-production, while creating and editing social content for digital and social channels.
  • Partner with designers, strategists, marketers, and production teams to deliver cohesive, high-quality work across channels and formats.
  • Apply strong creative judgment, attention to detail, and an understanding of the consumer packaged goods landscape to produce relevant and commercially effective work.
  • Explore emerging creative tools and technologies, including generative AI, and occasionally participate on camera when concepts require it.
  • Manage multiple projects, timelines, feedback cycles, and deliverables from concept through completion.
  • Present creative concepts and visual solutions clearly to internal partners and stakeholders.
Ingredients Required for Your Success
  • Bachelor's degree required.
  • 2+ years of design or art direction experience within an agency or in-house creative team.
  • Portfolio demonstrating strong design fundamentals, strategic thinking, and multi-channel execution.
  • Experience translating brand audits, creative briefs, consumer insights, and performance data into strategically grounded, executable creative ideas.
  • Strong understanding of brand systems and the importance of consistency across consumer touchpoints.
  • Demonstrated expertise designing for digital and social platforms using Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Express, Photoshop, InDesign, and Canva.
  • Interest in generative AI and emerging creative technologies; experience with tools such as ChatGPT, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, or similar platforms.
  • Experience supporting photography and video productions from preparation through production.
  • Strong attention to detail and project management skills with a collaborative, team-first mindset.
  • Passion for brand design, particularly within the food and consumer packaged goods industries.
Number of Days in Office: 3
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Compensation 

Pay Range:$64,000-$95,000

The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.

Our Benefits

We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:

  • Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement

  • Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan

  • Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement

  • Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities

Our Company

At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®.

Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 2+ years of design or art direction experience within an agency or in-house creative team
  • Portfolio demonstrating strong design fundamentals, strategic thinking, and multi-channel execution
  • Experience translating brand audits, creative briefs, consumer insights, and performance data into strategically grounded, executable creative ideas
  • Strong understanding of brand systems and consistency across consumer touchpoints
  • Expertise designing for digital and social platforms using Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Express, Photoshop, InDesign, and Canva
  • Interest in generative AI and emerging creative technologies
  • Experience with ChatGPT, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, or similar platforms
  • Experience supporting photography and video productions from preparation through production
  • Strong attention to detail and project management skills
  • Collaborative, team-first mindset
  • Passion for brand design, particularly within food and consumer packaged goods industries

Conagra Brands Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Conagra Brands and has not been reviewed or approved by Conagra Brands.

  • Retirement Support Retirement programs are described as a standout, with a 401(k) that includes a company match and an additional company contribution, plus pension eligibility for certain groups. Company materials and filings emphasize this as a core strength across many roles.
  • Strong & Reliable Incentives Incentive pay and bonus opportunities are presented as a meaningful part of total rewards. Summaries characterize annual incentives as consistent and an important contributor to overall compensation.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Health, dental, and vision coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, and wellness resources are highlighted alongside perks like discounts and legal benefits. Day‑one eligibility for many corporate and non‑union roles is called out, supporting easy access to these programs.

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The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
18,500 Employees
Year Founded: 1919

What We Do

Conagra has the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. Our diverse team embraces debate to challenge marketplace/business conventions. We are respected for our great brands, great food, great margins and consistent results. We combine a rich heritage with a sharpened focus and entrepreneurial spirit. Conagra’s portfolio of iconic and emerging food brands continues to evolve to offer contemporary choices for every occasion. We are a 100 year-old company with a startup attitude - an imperative to transform how we do business. What’s not changing? Our timeless values: integrity, external focus, broad-mindedness, agility, leadership by all, and a focus on results.

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