Art Director, Video

🕒 May 1

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $90k - $140k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍🎨 Art Director

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NinjaTrader

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2003

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

Finance • Fintech • SaaS

NinjaTrader is a leading provider of futures trading platforms and brokerage services designed for both new and experienced traders to access the global futures markets. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools including charting, simulation, market visualization, and order flow tools, all accessible across multiple devices such as PCs, Macs, and mobile devices. NinjaTrader focuses on providing cost-effective and customizable trading solutions, with low margins and commissions, and supports trading in popular markets like E-mini and Micro E-minis, Crude Oil, and Bitcoin futures. The company also offers daily livestreams and comprehensive educational resources to help traders enhance their skills and strategies.

📋 Description

• Own the visual direction for NinjaTrader Live and all NT Live-adjacent creative — establishing a cohesive look and feel across broadcast, social, email, and experiential touchpoints • Define and develop video and motion graphics systems (intros, outros, stingers, lower-thirds, sizzle reels, social clips) that elevate and unify the brand's dynamic identity • Leverage AI creative tools as a core part of your workflow, not a novelty • Direct and contribute to video editing across formats — livestream recaps, social cutdowns, ads, highlight reels, and promotional content • Define creative standards for short-form video, ensuring strong hooks, pacing, and visual treatments optimized for engagement and retention • Direct the Senior Graphic Designer, ensuring static and motion systems evolve cohesively and the creative bar stays high across every deliverable • Provide clear, actionable feedback that supports the growth and output of your direct report while maintaining quality and consistency across all work • Collaborate cross-functionally with producers, media, and social teams to translate business goals into compelling visual storytelling • Own the creative process from concept through execution — balancing hands-on design work with strategic oversight • Stay ahead on motion design, video, live streaming assets, and AI creative advancements • Build the systems that make scale possible: own templates, style guides, and asset organization workflows that enable the team to produce more, faster, without losing consistency • Own and delegate the creative schedule — managing multiple live and in-progress projects with competing deadlines and same-day turnarounds

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in motion graphics, video editing, or art direction roles • Strong portfolio demonstrating motion design, video editing, and brand storytelling across multiple platforms • Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Photoshop • Experience developing and maintaining visual systems across multiple content channels • Strong understanding of pacing, storytelling, and audience engagement in both long-form and short-form video and how delivery varies across channels • Proven ability to produce high-quality video, static, and motion creative across multiple formats, markets, and languages at speed • Ability to shape creative vision while remaining hands-on in execution • Experience managing or directly overseeing at least one designer or creative contributor • Familiarity with working in fast-paced environments with tight turnaround times, ideally in live or near-live production settings • Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams in content-driven environments • Strong communication skills and ownership with the ability to align stakeholders around a shared creative vision • Strong design fundamentals: typography, composition, hierarchy, color • High attention to detail with strong organizational and project management skills • Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous PTO • 7 Paid Holidays Annually + 5 Conditional Holidays Annually • 1 Service Day Annually • 401k with 3.5% Company Match • Paid Parental Bonding Leave • Health, Vision, Dental Coverage • Life and Disability Insurance Covered 100% by NinjaTrader