Senior Art Director

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Senior Art Director at Guzman y Gomez in Surry Hills leads visual direction for campaigns across film, print, digital and in-store, partnering with the Senior Copywriter to turn briefs into distinctive concepts and to uphold GYG’s evolving visual language. You’ll direct shoots, guide the design team, and present ideas to senior stakeholders. The ideal candidate has 6-8+ years in an agency or in-house role, a portfolio, on-set experience, and expert typography and composition. To apply, showcase campaign work with measurable outcomes, highlight collaboration with writers, and connect your drive to GYG’s 100% clean food mission. Attach portfolio and CV with a concise cover note.

Company Description

At Guzman y Gomez Mexican Kitchen, our mission has always been to reinvent fast-food. We’re Australia’s only fast-food restaurant to be 100% clean, meaning there are no added preservatives, artificial flavours, added colours or unacceptable additives in our food. We’re incredibly proud of our amazing people, and the unique way we celebrate Mexican culture in everything we do.

Job Description

Set the visual standard for Australia's most exciting fast-food brand.

GYG is building a creative team that punches well above its weight. The Senior Art Director is the visual half of the ideation engine, partnering with the Senior Copywriter to develop campaign concepts that are visually distinctive, culturally switched-on, and unmistakably GYG. You'll shape what the brand looks like on billboards, screens, and in feeds.

What You'll Do

• Develop visual concepts and art direction for campaigns from brief through to delivery
• Partner directly with the Senior Copywriter to develop integrated concepts not just decorated copy
• Translate strategic and marketing briefs into visually distinctive campaign ideas that move the needle
• Build and maintain the visual language of GYG across film, print, OOH, digital, and in-restaurant
• Attend and direct shoots (stills and motion) alongside production leads, ensuring creative intent survives execution
• Provide on-set art direction across talent, food, props, lighting, and composition
• Provide visual direction to the design team across campaign, internal, and international workstreams
• Champion craft, typography, and image-making standards across all output
• Present concepts and rationale to senior stakeholders with confidence and clarity

What You'll Bring

• 6–8+ years as an Art Director in a creative agency or in-house team
• Portfolio of integrated campaign work with a clear visual point of view
• On-set experience directing photographers, DOPs, stylists, and crew
• Expert knowledge of design principles, typography, colour, and composition
• Strong conceptual partnership skills, comfortable working brief-to-execution with a writer
• Food, FMCG, or QSR experience an advantage
• A solution-oriented mindset, calm under shoot-day pressure

What You'll Love

• Join one of Australia's fastest-growing restaurant companies
• Real career growth in a marketing function that's investing heavily in its capability
• Annual short-term incentive scheme
• GYG restricted shares, earned each year through our long-term incentive scheme
• Up to 5 weeks of annual leave each year (ask us how)
• Paid parental leave
• The chance to one day become a franchisee and own your own GYG restaurant
• A vibrant Surry Hills office, a short walk from Central Station

Interested? Apply now to start the conversation.