Senior Art Director

Back Market is the world's leading refurbished electronics marketplace with a team of 650 people, powering operations in 18 countries (and counting!).

Named one of the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company in 2019 and again in 2021, our mission is simple: empowering people to consume tech sustainably by offering folks a high quality, accessible, and more eco-friendly alternative to buying new electronics. Why? Refurbished tech helps lower our collective environmental impact. We have indeed contributed to avoid the production of more than 1,000,000tons of CO2e worldwide since our launch in 2014.

Be part of an exciting and growing international adventure that will change the way the world consumes tech.

About the role:

Join our growing In-House Creative Agency as a Senior Art Director, specializing in brand marketing, product storytelling, social media, and video content. In this role, you will drive creative excellence, shape visual storytelling, and set the creative vision for Back Market's brand presence across digital and traditional platforms. You'll collaborate within a dynamic international team, working closely with overseas colleagues, cross-functional partners, and reporting to the Senior Lead Art Director.

As a Senior Art Director , you'll be responsible for pushing the boundaries of brand creativity, ensuring a best-in-class design approach that strengthens Back Market's cultural relevance and global impact. Your expertise in visual design, social media storytelling, and brand communication will be instrumental in crafting high-impact campaigns from concept to execution.

YOUR MISSION (IF YOU ACCEPT IT):

• Lead the execution of Back Market's global design identity across multiple channels, including traditional advertising (film, out-of-home, print), digital (website, app, digital ads), social media (motion & static content), and experiential activations.
• Drive creative excellence across all marketing and social media communications, ensuring innovation and consistency in brand expression.
• Own the visual storytelling for Back Market's social media platforms, ensuring a unique and culturally relevant aesthetic that differentiates the brand.
• Collaborate closely with the in-house social media team to conceptualize, design, and produce engaging content that drives audience connection and brand affinity.
• Mentor and inspire junior designers and art directors, fostering a culture of innovation, growth, and high design standards.
• Partner with external creators including designers, illustrators, animators, filmmakers, and experiential designers to push creative boundaries and bring campaigns to life.
• Elevate Back Market's brand impact globally through highly crafted, breakthrough creative.
• Design social-first content that resonates with cultural moments and trends, establishing Back Market as a leader in digital storytelling.
• Champion and evolve the Brand Visual Identity, ensuring consistency and high standards across all touchpoints.
• Push the brand's mission-"do more with what we already have"-into the future with bold, innovative creativity.
• Transform Back Market into a household name that is widely recognized, trusted, and admired.
• Long-term goal: Define and develop a distinct visual world and social identity across Back Market's social media channels, ensuring long-term brand cohesion and recognition.

YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE IF YOU HAVE:

• 8+ years of experience in art direction, design leadership, or a related field, with a strong background in brand marketing and social media content creation.
• A proven track record of delivering high-quality, culture-defining creative that stands out in competitive markets.
• Expertise in digital storytelling, with a keen understanding of social media trends, platform dynamics, and audience engagement.
• A strong design leadership mentality, with the ability to mentor, guide, and elevate creative teams.
• A strategic mindset, with the ability to align brand storytelling with business goals while maintaining exceptional creative quality.
• Mastery of design tools (Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, etc.) and a strong understanding of motion design, typography, and composition.

WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US ?

• A meaningful job: you will help avoid thousands of tons of electronic waste and fight against planned obsolescence. It counts!
• A meaningful company: we became a mission-driven company in January 2022.
• Be part of a worldwide growing company based in Europe, the USA and Asia to face great challenges : you will have the freedom to innovate and adopt new ideas!
• Work alongside passionate experts: who will share their knowledge and help you develop and grow in your career.
• Grow your career: with a flexible career path and a dedicated Learning & Development team. Back Market will help you evolve with personalized internal trainings and external handpicked providers from day 1!
• Leadership Academy by Back Market:"be a coach not a dictator" is at the core of this program ! We train and enable all our leaders to support their team towards achieving goals. Be a manager at Back Market is an unique experience we take by heart.
• An attractive salary, equity and a host of benefits including : Lunch voucher, health insurance, relocation package, paid time off for activism in your community, parental benefits, flexible hours, etc
• Remote friendly company : up to 2 days of remote work per week!
• One Loving Tribe: you will have the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, open-minded and friendly environment.
• Be part of one of our Employee Resource Groups createdaround shared identities, common backgrounds and/or special interests crafted to be a safe space and an expressive outlet.
• Several internal events: The Monday Brief (weekly)/ The Somehands (monthly)/ The All Hands (annual).
• We're here to SABOTAGE: It's our mantra. It keeps us focused on what we aspire to be: a little bit sneaky, always smart, kinda frugal and constantly conspiring to create maximum impact.

Back Market is an Equal Opportunity Employer which means we pledge to not discriminate against employees based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetic information.. If reasonable accommodations are needed for the interview process, please do not hesitate to discuss this with the Talent Acquisition Team.

Back Market is helping to address one of the biggest challenges of our time: climate change. We take this so seriously that we were awarded status as a "Societe a Mission", or company with a social mission, by the French government. We know we can't tackle a global problem without a globally representative team so we are committed to embedding diversity, equity and inclusion principles in every aspect of our organization. But more importantly, being One Loving & Free Spirited Tribe is in our DNA as it is one of the five foundational values of our company since we got started way back in 2014. We are committed to hiring and supporting diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We know our lofty goals cannot be reached unless everyone has a seat at the table along with the resources and opportunity to grow.