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This is a rare ground-floor opportunity to help build Pinterest's EMEA creative department from the start, as part of House of Creative. As an Art Director, you'll play an integral role in shaping the next iteration of the Pinterest brand — launching global, culturally relevant, award-winning campaigns with a particular emphasis on concepting and art direction. Working across both consumer and B2B marketing, you'll partner with Creative Leaders across the company to tell our story in the most impactful and inspiring way to Consumers, Creators, and Advertisers.
What you’ll do:
- Conceptualize and develop compelling campaign creative from end to end – taking embryonic ideas towards their strongest possible 360 degree creative execution.
- Create memorable films, commercials, and 360° campaigns, including brand partnership work.
- Art direct photography and video shoots, from treatments and mood boards through to final selects.
- Uplevel creative quality of work across the team in partnership with marketing - delivering both business results and international recognition for the Pinterest brand in the industry
- Provide meaningful feedback to in-house art directors and designers (across a breadth of disciplines, like graphic, motion, digital, video, editing, etc) across a variety of formats
- Compellingly represent the thinking behind your team’s work to key stakeholders, creative directors and team members Compellingly represent the thinking behind your work to key stakeholders, creative directors and team members, including partnering with the US creative team to adapt flagship campaigns for EMEA markets when needed.
- Bring depth to conceptual creative direction, art direction, and design
- Use AI tools thoughtfully to explore more ideas faster and bring concepts to life, while owning the craft and quality of the final work
What we’re looking for:
- Minimum of 8 years of experience as an art director with an emphasis on producing film, commercials, and 360 campaigns (with 3+ of those years in a creative leadership role)
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Visual Communications, Design, Advertising, or equivalent experience
- A book of work with examples of outstanding creative across a variety of brands
- Excellent leadership, mentorship, and interpersonal skills, with a track record of inspiring creative teams to achieve their best work
- Strong grasp of art direction and design craft across a wide variety of formats
- Proven ability to craft a story or concept that shapes culture, rather than reacting to it
- Strong presentation skills, with an ability to convey complex concepts in compellingly simple terms
- Proven experience art directing on set and managing production partners, from treatments and mood boards through to final selects.
- An accomplished creative leader who can bring out the best work in others and produce exceptionally high quality work individually
- An expert collaborator: a creative with deep experience working with writing partners to develop concepts, through to execution
- Hands-on experience using generative AI tools in your art direction process (e.g. concepting, mood boards, pre-visualisation), with strong judgement on originality, brand consistency, rights and representation
- Full proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma
Why this role is compelling for a strong candidate:
- A ground-floor opportunity to help build and shape Pinterest's EMEA creative department from scratch, within House of Creative — a globally recognized, award-winning in-house team.
- Close partnership with Pinterest's US creative team, with exposure to global brand strategy and campaigns.
- Based in London, creating high-impact work for one of the world's most visually iconic platforms.
Relocation Statement: This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
In-Office Requirement Statement
Collaboration with colleagues in-office at least one day a week. We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role. This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration on average 1 time per week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices London.
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Skills Required
- Minimum 8 years of experience as an art director, including experience producing films, commercials, and 360-degree campaigns
- At least 3 years of experience in a creative leadership role
- Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communications, Design, Advertising, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Portfolio demonstrating outstanding creative work across a variety of brands
- Excellent leadership, mentorship, and interpersonal skills
- Strong art direction and design craft across varied formats
- Ability to develop concepts and stories that shape culture
- Strong presentation and communication skills
- Experience art directing on set and managing production partners from treatments through final selects
- Expert collaboration with writing partners from concept development through execution
- Hands-on experience using generative AI tools for concepting, mood boards, or pre-visualization
- Strong judgment regarding originality, brand consistency, rights, and representation
- Full proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma
Pinterest Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Pinterest and has not been reviewed or approved by Pinterest.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is considered competitive in core technical roles, with clearly defined base, bonus, and RSU components. Vesting schedules and pay elements are articulated clearly, supporting visibility into total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include substantial paid parental leave globally alongside fertility and family‑building benefits, adoption assistance, and dedicated caregiver supports. Communications also highlight a phased return‑to‑work approach.
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Flexible Benefits — PinFlex enables role‑dependent hybrid/remote work with home‑office, connectivity, and commuter support, plus the option to work internationally for a limited period with approval. Time away is reinforced by a paid company shutdown and generous vacation framing.
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What We Do
Pinterest is the visual inspiration platform people around the world use to shop products personalized to their taste, find ideas to do offline and discover the most inspiring creators. Today, more than 460 million people come to the platform every month to explore and experience billions of ideas that have been saved. We’re proud to help people to discover and do what they love.
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