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Senior Art Director Job at Next Media
Next Media
Job Description
The Senior Art Director Lead is the overall custodian of creative excellence for NEXTCom. The role provides strategic and hands-on leadership across design, content photography, and content repurposing teams, ensuring that all creative output is conceptually strong, visually outstanding, on-brand, and commercially effective.
This role combines big-idea thinking with operational leadership, guiding creative strategy, allocating work, reviewing output, mentoring teams, and representing NEXTCom in high-level client engagements, proposals, and pitches.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
- Creative Strategy & Vision
- Define and drive NEXTCom’s creative vision across all platforms and
- Translate business and marketing objectives into powerful creative
- Lead conceptual development for major campaigns and brand
- Ensure alignment between creative output and brand
- Team Leadership & Management
- Lead and manage:
- Design Team
- Content Photography Team
- Content Repurposing & Adaptation Team
- Next Creata, Content Hub (event and podcast production assets)
- Allocate work based on skill sets, workload, and
- Mentor, coach, and develop creative
- Build a high-performance, collaborative creative
- Creative Execution & Quality Control
- Oversee creative development from brief to final
- Review and approve designs, layouts, visuals, and
- Enforce brand guidelines and creative
- Ensure consistency and excellence across all media brands and client
- Client & Commercial Support
- Participate in proposal development and creative sections of
- Present creative ideas and strategies to
- Provide creative input into new business
- Work closely with business and digital teams to shape sellable
- Digital-First Creative Leadership
- Champion digital-first thinking across all creative
- Guide teams on content formats optimized for social, mobile, and digital
- Drive innovation in storytelling, formats, and visual
- Tools, Systems & Process
- Define creative workflows and processes, alongside Head of
- Introduce and optimize creative tools and
- Ensure efficient collaboration between creative, content, and digital
- Capability Building & Training
- Identify skill gaps within creative
- Develop and run regular training and upskilling
- Keep teams updated on global creative trends and best practices
Qualifications, Education and Competencies
See all details of the qualifications, competencies and education for this role under the "How to Apply" section below.
Apply to: people@nextmedia.co.ug
Deadline: 25th February 2026
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