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Conagra Brands

Food and Beverage Services · 8k people

Art Director

Posted 20 Oct

What’s this role about? The Art Director will develop original visual assets and cohesive brand identities across various consumer touchpoints to support marketing initiatives. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage projects from concept through execution, including photography, video, and digital content creation.

Chicago, Illinois
Hybrid
$64K – $95K
Full-time
2-5 years exp
222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago, Illinois 60654
Bachelor degree

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Company

About Conagra Brands Conagra has the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. Our diverse team embraces debate to challenge marketplace/business conventions. We are respected for our great brands, great food, great margins and consistent results. We combine a rich heritage with a sharpened focus and entrepreneurial spirit. Conagra’s portfolio of iconic and emerging food brands continues to evolve to offer contemporary choices for every occasion. We are a 100 year-old company with a startup attitude - an imperative to transform how we do business. What’s not changing? Our timeless values: integrity, external focus, broad-mindedness, agility, leadership by all, and a focus on results.

Conagra Brands

Conagra Brands has the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food.

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10,001+ employees
Food and Beverage Services
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Public Company
285k LinkedIn followers

Responsibilities

  • Translate briefs, business goals, and consumer insights into strategically grounded creative concepts that build brand awareness, engagement, sales, and conversion.
  • Develop ideas from concept through final execution, creating mood boards, storyboards, style guides, and presentations that clearly communicate the creative vision.
  • Bring established brand systems to life across retail, shopper marketing, e-commerce, digital, social, web, and content platforms.
  • Design scalable campaign toolkits and production-ready materials, including advertising, retail creative, digital and social assets, and on-screen graphics.
  • Support and help direct photography, video, and content initiatives from pre-production and on-set collaboration through post-production, while creating and editing social content for digital and social channels.
  • Partner with designers, strategists, marketers, and production teams to deliver cohesive, high-quality work across channels and formats.
  • Apply strong creative judgment, attention to detail, and an understanding of the consumer packaged goods landscape to produce relevant and commercially effective work.
  • Explore emerging creative tools and technologies, including generative AI, and occasionally participate on camera when concepts require it.
  • Manage multiple projects, timelines, feedback cycles, and deliverables from concept through completion.
  • Present creative concepts and visual solutions clearly to internal partners and stakeholders.
  • Bachelor's degree required.
  • 2+ years of design or art direction experience within an agency or in-house creative team.
  • Experience translating brand audits, creative briefs, consumer insights, and performance data into strategically grounded, executable creative ideas.
  • Strong understanding of brand systems and the importance of consistency across consumer touchpoints.
  • Demonstrated expertise designing for digital and social platforms using Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Express, Photoshop, InDesign, and Canva.
  • Interest in generative AI and emerging creative technologies; experience with tools such as ChatGPT, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, or similar platforms.
  • Experience supporting photography and video productions from preparation through production.
  • Strong attention to detail and project management skills with a collaborative, team-first mindset.
  • Passion for brand design, particularly within the food and consumer packaged goods industries.
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Qualification

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Benefits

  • The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.
  • We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role
  • Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement
  • Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
  • Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement
  • Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities
  • At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®.
  • Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.

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