Art Director

Credit Acceptance is proud to be an award-winning company with local and national workplace recognition in multiple categories! Our world-class culture is shaped by dedicated Team Members who share a drive to succeed as professionals and together as a company. A great product, amazing people and our stable financial history have made us one of the largest used car finance companies nationally.
Our Support teams work with multiple departments in a dynamic environment that promotes flexibility and autonomy, while offering the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of professionals.  We work to comply with our company standards, exceed customer expectations and drive our Great Place to Work culture.  Through the consistent delivery of quality services and understanding the needs of our business, we develop innovative improvements as we strive towards our company’s Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals!

Credit Acceptance’s in-house creative team is responsible for producing exceptional concepts, inspiring content, and delivering results for the brand. As part of our fast-growing Marketing team, the Art Director will be a key idea contributor and a visual leader on the Creative team, dedicated to producing high-quality content across print and digital platforms, while challenging industry standards. You will have a keen eye for brand guidelines and develop both conceptual ideas and visual designs. Your work will stand out across digital platforms and in the real world, driving conversations and headlines. You will work closely with writers, designers, video editors, commercial photographers, and production companies to bring your visuals to life and help develop visual brand consistency across all marketing initiatives.

 

Outcomes and Activities:

• This position will work from home; occasional planned travel to an assigned Southfield, Michigan office location may be required.  However, this position is permitted to work at a Southfield, Michigan office location if requested by the team member.
• Art Direction: Drive high visual standards on assigned projects, bringing strong conceptual thinking and attention to detail that elevates the work
• Innovative & Traditional Design: Create across a wide range of mediums — including digital, print, social, video, photography, and experiential — with a strong understanding of how to adapt big ideas across channels. Apply design thinking to a variety of campaign types, from lifecycle marketing and prospecting efforts to larger brand campaigns
• Brand Design: Help maintain a cohesive, high-quality visual identity for the brand, ensuring design consistency across all touchpoints
• Ideation: Actively participate in brainstorms and creative development, bringing a collaborative spirit, big ideas, and sharp visual thinking to the table
• Presentation Design: Create compelling visual stories and presentation decks to sell through big ideas
• Craft Leadership: Become a visual voice for the brand and lead by example through high-quality design work that reflects strong creative instincts and attention to detail
• Collaboration: Work closely with designers, writers, video editors, and marketing partners to bring campaigns to life and deliver unique creative solutions
• Project Ownership: Manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment, helping to keep work on track and aligned with creative and business goals

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong concepting and design skills with the ability to both ideate top-tier concepts and bring them to life
• Ability to collaborate with and provide direction to designers to deliver high-quality work
• Ability to collaborate with copywriters and video editors to create great ideas that tell the brand’s story in unique ways
• Exposure to concepting and directing photo shoots
• Exposure to UI/UX development and principles
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Advertising, Graphic Design, Communication Design, or a related field with hands-on design emphasis, or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 3 years as an agency art director or designer, with a proven track record of leading designers and stewarding brands. Experience in the agency and tech industries is a plus
• Broad portfolio showcasing your work, including groundbreaking, innovative work across both print and digital
• Expertise in industry-standard design software such as Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), as well as familiarity with other relevant tools for multimedia and interactive design
• Experience working on both B2B & B2C initiatives
• Experience with file management best practices and developing and/or maintaining a DAM system

Preferred:

• Mix of in-house and agency experience
• Familiarity with motion design and animation principles, enabling you to create dynamic and engaging visual content for video and interactive experiences
• Proficient knowledge of print production processes, including pre-press requirements, materials selection, and collaboration with print vendors to ensure high-quality final deliverables
• A basic understanding of UX/UI design principles to create designs that not only look great but also offer intuitive and user-friendly interactions
• Experience producing work for clients in a regulated industry (financial services, pharma, etc.) and/or experience navigating legal feedback to balance required changes while maintaining brand standards

Targeted Compensation: $80,000 - $95,000 base salary + an annual bonus plan

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Benefits

• Excellent benefits package that includes 401(K) match, adoption assistance, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive medical/ dental/vision and many nonstandard benefits that make us a Great Place to Work 

Our Company Values:

To be successful in this role, Team Members need to be:

• Positive by maintaining resiliency and focusing on solutions
• Respectful by collaborating and actively listening
• Insightful by cultivating innovation, accumulating business and role specific knowledge, demonstrating self-awareness and making quality decisions
• Direct by effectively communicating and conveying courage
• Earnest by taking accountability, applying feedback and effectively planning and priority setting

Expectations:

• Remain compliant with our policies processes and legal guidelines
• All other duties as assigned
• Attendance as required by department 

Advice!

We understand that your career search may look different than others. Our hiring team wants to make sure that this would be a fit not just for us, but for you long term.  If you are actively looking or starting to explore new opportunities, send us your application!

 

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Required degrees must have been earned at institutions of Higher Education which are accredited by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation or equivalent.

Credit Acceptance is dedicated to providing a safe and inclusive working environment for all. As part of our Culture of Compliance, we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and value our culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of the person’s age, race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status, criminal history, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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