Art Director (Brand Campaigns) - #1800490

NET-A-PORTER delivers incredible fashion for incredible women. As the world’s leading luxury retailer with the most authoritative product edit globally, the site offers the ultimate curation of fashion from the most coveted designer brands, the most exceptional assortment of fine watches and precious jewelry, and more than 200 specialist beauty brands. Its discerning edit places special emphasis on highlighting the creativity and promise of the next generation of fashion talent via the Vanguard, a program for emerging brands. Consideration for environmental and social impact increasingly shapes the product offering, and the launch of the NET SUSTAIN platform, was created to showcase brands that place sustainability at the core of their product. Uniting content and commerce to deliver an immersive and inspiring customer experience, NET-A-PORTER speaks to a global community and features a dedicated editorial vertical with PORTER, which is renowned for its award-winning content featuring a diverse range of incredible women.

NET-A-PORTER champions unparalleled customer service offering express worldwide shipping to more than 170 countries including same or next-day delivery to the UK, US, Hong Kong, Germany, France, Australia and Singapore, a seamless shopping experience across all devices, luxurious packaging, easy returns and a multi-lingual customer care and personal shopping team that is available 24/7, 365 days a year. A pioneer of personal shopping and client relations services for the digital era in 2000, NET-A-PORTER continues to innovate and strengthen its offering, with virtual styling, invitation only digital exclusives, and a world class suite of specialized offers for EIPs, (Extremely Important People), the brand’s most loyal and valuable customers. NET-A-PORTER is part of YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP.

NET-A-PORTER are now seeking a talented Art Director to join the team. This role leads the Art Direction and Design Direction across all Net-A-Porter brand communications and creative outputs. You will be responsible for developing and implementing innovative, elevated concepts and visual strategies that shape the brand's creative expression both onsite and offsite. This includes brand campaigns, digital content, social, and seasonal activations. Working as part of the wider Art Direction and Creative Strategy team, you will ensure a cohesive, aspirational visual identity that reflects Net-A-Porter's luxury positioning and resonates with its global audience.

Some of the essentials for you to know are:

Location: Our Westfield office in London

Reporting into: Creative Director

Besides a competitive salary, we can offer you:

• Performance bonus schemes dependent on the type of role you are in
• A pension that both you and the company contribute too
• A portal with an array of discounts on things like theme park and cinema tickets
• Our famous staff discount along with exclusive staff sales
• Private healthcare for you and your family
• Flexible working
• A chance to be part of a fun and caring team that support each other
  
  
  

Here is a breakdown of what you’ll be doing:

• Lead the concepting and art direction across fashion, talent, beauty, still life, and video shoots ensuring all content is visually compelling, on-brand, diverse, and aligned with Net-A-Porter’s luxury positioning, delivered within agreed budgets.
• Art direct seasonal brand campaigns, taking a 360°, multi-platform approach that spans digital, social, editorial, CRM, and media channels, maximising impact across touchpoints and tailoring creative to each platform’s specific context and audience.
• Oversee art direction for organic social, leading a team of creatives. Review social creative concepts and design assets, ensuring alignment with brand tone, content strategy, and social performance KPIs.
• Drive the digital and social creative output (onsite, app, organic and paid social), ensuring every asset is optimised for its platform and leverages best practices to maximise reach, engagement, and commercial performance.
• Provide direction for brand events and activations, ensuring all physical and experiential touchpoints reflect Net-A-Porter’s visual identity, storytelling, and luxury positioning across every detail.
• Shape and evolve the Net-A-Porter visual brand identity, ensuring consistency and cohesion across all creative expressions, from institutional branding and on-site experiences to campaign storytelling and high-impact social content.
• Develop innovative creative strategies for paid social, delivering best-in-class executions through stills, video, motion, and storytelling formats that increase brand awareness and drive conversion.
• Build and nurture a strong creative network of photographers, filmmakers, illustrators, designers, and agencies, championing partnerships with bold, emerging talent who reflect the brand’s aesthetic and values.
• Stay attuned to cultural and creative trends across fashion, design, art, media, gaming, and tech, with a particular focus on emerging opportunities within the digital and social space.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with teams across fashion, editorial, content, marketing, social, paid media, UX, shoot production, CRM, and trading, leading the creative development process from brief through to execution.
• Ensure creative excellence across all output, reviewing work for visual quality, brand alignment, and technical accuracy while guiding and mentoring the creative team to continuously push creative boundaries.
• Oversee planning and delivery of all creative projects, working closely with Production and Project Management to allocate resources effectively and meet deadlines.
• Foster a high-performing team culture, conducting regular performance reviews, identifying development needs, mentoring talent, and ensuring team structure and succession planning support long-term business goals.
  
  
  

The type of person we are looking for:

• Proven depth of experience in commissioning and directing photography, design and moving image in an e-commerce luxury space
• Highly proficient in design, UX language, typography, video and motion, using Adobe Suite and Figma
• Extensive relevant experience in women’s luxury fashion
• Experience within a multi-brand and/or e-commerce environment
• Extensive experience working for a global brand, understanding of different market needs
• Existing relationships with relevant photographers/directors/stylists etc
• Proven management experience
• Excellent verbal, visual and written communication skills
• Breadth of experience in creating visuals for digital and social executions, special projects, 360 campaigns, especially for paid and organic media channels
• Detail orientated and extremely well organized
• Positive, collaborative, and solutions-focused, with a strong ability to build trust, energise teams, and foster a supportive creative culture
  
  
  

From the moment you join the YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP we are committed to making your journey with us inspirational and evolutionary. If you are passionate, committed and thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, then please apply with a CV.

YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP is an equal opportunities employer, we encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We recognize and celebrate the benefits that diversity brings to our workplace, our business and our customers. We welcome and will consider all applications regardless of race and nationality, religion, color, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as an individual with a disability, or any other legally protected characteristics.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please do not hesitate to advise us accordingly.

Experience Level: Mid-Senior level

Workplace Type: Hybrid