Job Title: Associate Art Director

Location: New York

Company: BritBox International

Reporting to: Creative Director

Contract Type: Full Time/Permanent

About Us

Welcome to BritBox, the ultimate streaming destination for British TV. We bring you an unparalleled collection of thoughtfully curated entertainment, cleverly crafted and brimming with the kind of charm, wit and heart only the Brits could deliver.

Born from the BBC, we’re on a mission to share authentically British stories with audiences across the world. Since our launch in 2017, we've quickly expanded to seven markets including North America, Australia, and the Nordics. We are a small but mighty streamer that punches above our weight, available on every major platform and even shining among the bright lights of Times Square—and we’re just getting started!

Now, here’s where you come in: if you’re passionate about entertainment, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and want to play a meaningful role in our remarkable growth story, this is your chance. Join our team and help us bring the best of British TV to fans everywhere.

Job Purpose:

The Associate Art Director leads the visual expression of BritBox across brand and title marketing design, shaping a cohesive and strategically grounded creative standard that fuels cultural relevance, subscriber growth, and brand love. Blending conceptual thinking with elevated design craft, this role oversees the development of key art, campaign systems, and themed collections from initial brief through final execution, ensuring every deliverable is both visually compelling and meticulously produced. Partnering closely with cross-functional teams including Paid Media, Press, Editorial, Lifecycle, and Product, you’ll translate business objectives and audience insight into bold, scalable creative design solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the BritBox design team through strategically sound and visually impactful creative solutions.

• Break new creative ground and drive excellence in key art, themed collections, and brand campaigns.

• Manage, coach, and support BritBox’s extraordinary internal design team.

• Strengthen, clarify, and enforce the BritBox brand visual system across all marketing touchpoints. Ensuring artwork reflects a modern British sensibility.

• Provide clear, actionable feedback to internal and external designers on work in progress. Grow a culture of feedback and ‘collaborative optimization.’

• Identify and onboard design agencies and freelance talent to expand capabilities and capacity.

• Present often to internal/external stakeholders and marketing leadership. Be adept at grounding design decisions in strong strategic rationale while explaining those choices in relatable ‘layman’s’ terms.

• Ensure ‘through the line’ design projects begin with a concept-led approach and are finished with meticulous execution.

• Collaborate with production on assigning briefs, and redirect as necessary, to maximize impact and team growth.

• Align the right design talent to the right brief, ensuring work stays on time and on budget.

• Partner cross-functionally to bring ideas to life across teams, including Press, Social, Paid Media, Creative, Editorial, and Lifecycle, to ensure strategic alignment across simultaneous campaigns.

• Collaborate with the product design team, sharing assets and feedback within Figma.

• Be a superb collaborator, translating creative feedback into solutions and obstacles into opportunities. Foster a ‘one team’ mindset in which critique makes the work - and the creator - stronger.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Relevant professional design experience

• Entertainment/streaming industry background preferred; Experience in brand design for a subscription streaming service (SVOD/AVOD/FAST) or major entertainment app.

• A strong design portfolio, showcasing both range and polish - ideally within Entertainment and outside

• Manager experience growing talent, pushing and developing design skills and collaboration

• Proven presentation skills, both in-person and via video conferencing software

• Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite. Mastery of Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat and Illustrator.

• Expertise in Figma.

• Expertise in presentation deck design across G Slides, PowerPoint and Keynote.

• Deep knowledge of digital formats and printing processes

• Rich understanding of typography, photography and color theory

• Motion design skills in Adobe After Effects is preferred

• Exceptional collaborator with experience working alongside producers, video editors, designers, copywriters, and marketing executives.

• Someone who lives and breathes TV marketing and understands how audiences discover new shows.

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design preferred.

What You’ll Bring:

• Deeply attuned and obsessive about the intersection of design and marketing, with relentless curiosity for new technology and creative tactics.

• Excellent communicator, with the ability to articulate high-level strategic creative direction

• Strong collaboration skills with an openness to feedback and new ideas.

• Lives and breathes design. Shares rising trends and creative inspiration, daily.

• Curiosity, taste, and drive to elevate marketing beyond the expected.

• A developing knowledge and love for British Television

• Proactive problem-solver with a positive, can-do attitude in a fast-paced, KPI-driven environment.

• Management/teaching experience to know how to unlock design potential in others

Salary Range: $115K-$125k base salary + competitive benefits + bonus potential

Please note that the salary range is intended to give as an indicator of the salaries that could be attributed to the breadth or experience for a given role. All candidates will be measured based on their level of experience.

Our Values

Our BritBox Global Values not only represent our culture but also ensure that we have principles that shape everything we do. Defined by our employees, they are not just words on a page, but the foundation of how we work together, every day.

Our values have been cascaded into specific behaviours, which are embedded into all of our people processes, including hiring, onboarding, performance evaluation and feedback.

We are proud of our values and seek to hire people who resonate with them

This job spec is not exhaustive and may change from time to time in line with the evolving nature of a dynamic and growing business.