Senior Art Director (4 month contract)

Who we are

Employment Hero is on a mission to make employment easier and more valuable for everyone. Our Employment Operating System brings hiring, HR, payroll and benefits into an all-in-one solution. 

Since our inception in 2014, we’ve scaled to a $2 billion valuation and gained a presence in 6 countries globally – Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, the UK and Canada. We now service over 350,000 businesses and more than 3 million employees. 

The EH Way

At Employment Hero, we’re proud of our unique DNA, which we call The EH Way.  

1. We are Mission First – Our Mission determines what we work on, where we invest, and where we focus. Every decision runs through a single filter: does this accelerate our Mission? 
2. We are Remote First – we champion a remote environment with a preference for asynchronous communication and a high degree of autonomy 
3. We are AI First – we are committed to using AI to accelerate our mission; AI is not just a tool, it’s a fundamental part of how we operate, innovate, and scale
4. We Live by Our Values – we role model our values 100% of the time
5. We Expect High Performance – we set a high standard and we’re not satisfied with being average

This role 

We’re looking for a strategic and innovative Senior Art Director to join our in-house creative agency, Hero Collective, servicing our key markets, including ANZ, UK and Canada. This role is for a proven creative leader who has mastered their craft (design, video, or art direction) and evolved into strategic campaign thinking. You possess a sharp eye for effective marketing creative – you know what makes a cut-through campaign, what resonates on social, and what stops someone mid-scroll.

You appreciate big brand moments just as much as always-on performance creative. You understand that a killer OOH idea requires different thinking than a high-converting paid social asset, and you are comfortable creating both.

As Employment Hero is an AI-first business, AI tools are at the core of your workflow, and you champion smarter, faster production methods for the entire team. You are curious, culturally immersed, and eager to use your creative talents to shape our mission “to make employment easier and more valuable for everyone on earth”.

This a 4 month contract role, with the possibility of extension.

You will

• Own the creative concepting and visual direction across integrated campaigns: OOH, TVC, paid social, organic, video, email, and digital.
• Seamlessly take campaigns from concept through to execution. This means shaping strategy while staying hands-on in the process—building references and moodboards, defining briefs, storyboarding, generating content with AI, and meticulously reviewing final executions. You’re in the work, not above it.
• Lead the thinking for performance media, specifically understanding what drives results in paid social and shaping creative to maximize those outcomes.
• Use AI tools (Higgsfield, Eleven Labs, Claude, Suno) fluently in your day-to-day, and help the team build smarter, faster workflows around them.
• Act as a creative voice, bringing fresh ideas, championing a culture of craft and ownership, and elevating the team around you through open collaboration across disciplines and global partners.
• Identify and implement process efficiencies to deliver better work in less time without sacrificing quality.
• Present and rationalise creative concepts clearly to stakeholders, taking feedback well to consistently move projects forward.
• Stay ahead of emerging tools, platform trends, and the benchmark for great creative today.

Who you are 

To thrive at Employment Hero, you’ll need to embody The EH Way – operating with focus, agility, and an obsession with impact. For this role, you’ll also bring

• 6+ years in design, video, or a craft-based creative discipline, that has evolved into art direction and integrated campaign thinking across all media channels (OOH, TVC, paid social, organic, video, digital, and email).
• A strategic storyteller with deep understanding of performance marketing creative: paid social formats, content testing, and a sharp eye for what cuts through.
• AI-fluency, with hands-on experience in image generation, video generation (Higgsfield, Runway), and ideation tools (Claude, ChatGPT), and real finished work to prove it.
• Strong design fundamentals: typography, composition, colour, layout, and photography direction. Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma. Bonus: After Effects, Premiere Pro.
• A collaborator who shares ideas generously, guides and mentors other creatives, and makes the team around them better.
• Comfortable in a reactive, fast-paced environment: you take ownership, adapt quickly, ship fast, combining a scrappy, practical mindset with high creative standards.
• Ego-free and open to feedback: you collaborate generously, bring people with you, and see constant improvement as part of the job.

What we can offer

At Employment Hero, we don’t just talk about a better way to work – we live it. Joining Employment Hero means

• You will work remotely, with the flexibility to own your time and impact
• You will access cutting-edge tools to amplify your work, knowledge and outputs 
• You’ll surround yourself with ambitious, outcome-driven colleagues who challenge you to do the best work of your life
• You’ll own ESOP (employee share options) in one of the world’s fastest-growing tech companies 
• You’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits that includes – a very generous parental leave policy, subsidised egg freezing (so you can make the choice that’s right for you, on your terms), a WFH office expense budget, and outstanding learning & development opportunities 
• Annual Global Gathering – so far we’ve been to Thailand, Vietnam, Bali, Dubai and are excited to meet in Gold Coast in Australia in September 2026

A portfilio is required as part of this application – please include it in your resume or the follow-up application questions.

We’re AI-first, so you may meet some of our AI tools early in the process. They help us cut the noise, surface great talent fast and make sure every candidate gets a fair, consistent experience. We verify candidate identity and location as part of our hiring process.

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Employment Hero celebrates diverse perspectives and experiences, we invite people of all backgrounds and identities to apply for this position.