Art Director

Art Director (Beauty Focus)

About the Role

Art Director: 3-4 years in-house experience required

Start Date: ASAP; October 2026

Employment Type: Full-Time, In-House

Location: Must be based in Los Angeles Metro and available to attend multiple photo/social content shoots a month

We’re Sincerely Yours, a skincare and entertainment forward lifestyle brand built for teens and young adults. We are seeking our first full-time, in-house Art Director who will lead and execute the brand's visual identity (including graphic design) across digital, social, and IRL touchpoints. This role is meant for a multihyphenate Art Director who’s energized in a fast-paced start-up environment with a strong pulse and interest in Gen Alpha and Gen Z pop culture/social trends. This role requires someone who is confident art directing and designing social-first, entertaining creative, but who can also flex into elevated campaign work that translates well in the Sephora landscape.

You must be comfortable working with celebrity talent and be able to lead multiple photo / content shoots a month (including after-school hours and occasional weekends).

**APPLICATIONS WITHOUT A CREATIVE PORTFOLIO WILL BE IGNORED.**

In order to be considered for this role, your resume must include a direct link to your portfolio.

What You’ll Do

• You’ll be a thought leader and strategic partner to the Creative Director; present creative work clearly and confidently to Creative Director and internal stakeholders such as our Co-Founders, CMO and social team.
• You’ll ensure 360 visual consistency across all consumer touchpoints
• You’ll partner closely with our graphic designer, dreaming up and designing assets across social, Sephora’s visual merchandising, PR packaging, and events/activations
• You’ll operate at the intersection of strategic art direction and hands-on design execution, ideating concepts from briefs to leading the execution and delivery of assets from pre and post production across all brand channels.
• You’ll actively drive brainstorming and cross-functional ideation, bringing sharp, on-the-pulse cultural and social trend awareness to the table.
• You will translate creative direction into compelling social-first creative concepts, PR stunts, campaigns, event activations and storytelling across global channels for a packed launch and activation calendar.
• You’ll evolve the brand’s social expression by creating work that balances both entertainment-forward video content with elevated, beauty-forward education.
• You’ll build visual mood boards and pre-production decks that communicate clear art direction and shot lists for GTM presentations and photo shoots.
• You’ll attend photo/video shoots (across big campaigns and smaller social content production), art direct on set, be responsible for overall aesthetic, etc. You’re okay with the occasional weekend shoot and meeting up with our social team during late afternoon weekday shoots.
• You’ll oversee the post-production process after shoots: organize files, make image and video selects, provide clear retouching/color grading notes, work with video editors and ensure projects are delivered on time.
• You’ll partner closely with external agencies, creators, photographers, videographers, prop stylists and production partners
• You’ll be a project manager for your work—tracking timelines, organizing files, and communicating clearly with the Creative Director and stakeholders, delivering assets on time

Who You Are

• You’re curious and motivated to work in a small yet dynamic team; you don’t bring ego into the work and don’t take yourself too seriously :-)
• You have an open + get gritty mindset; you’re okay wearing many hats and shifting priorities when needed as this is a true startup environment
• You’re organized, self-directed, and able to act as your own project manager
• You’re an exceptional conceptual thinker with a refined creative point of view who understands our Gen Alpha customer
• You understand how to adapt campaign narratives into social-first creative content
• You’re able to execute elevated graphic design work while bringing a playful and human touch lens into your creative vision and execution
• You’re comfortable flexing across different mediums including both digital and print
• You’re able to clearly present work and respond to feedback in a timely manner
• You’re confident in your creative decisions and able to provide context
• You’re adaptable and solutions-driven; you have a problem-solving mindset with the ability to bring fresh, strategic ideas to the table
• You are comfortable working with celebrity talent
• You’re okay attending multiple content / photo shoots a month (including occasional weekends)

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s Degree and/or 3-4 years of experience in an art direction role, ideally in-house at a consumer brand
• A portfolio that reflects both photo art direction and graphic design work
• Must be based in Los Angeles, California and able to commute easily to photo / content shoots across the city
• Experience in branded 360 campaigns and assets with an emphasis on digital/social
• A pulse and interest in Gen Alpha and Gen Z design culture/social trends
• Deep fluency of Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest and emerging social platforms, with the ability to create work that feels native to each.
• Confidence working directly with celebrity talent
• Experience art directing photo and video shoots with the ability to communicate direction clearly on set to creative partners and talent
• Strong understanding of design: typography, layout, color, and brand systems
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) and Figma is required and familiarity with project management tools such as Asana
• Familiarity with fast-paced launch calendars and retail deadlines
• An understanding of the Sephora retail environment
• Experience or a passion for the following is a huge plus, but not required: Video editing and motion graphics for digital ads and social media, 3D renderings/art, illustration

Why This Role

• You’ll have the opportunity to create meaningful work for a newly launched (just hit our 1 year anniversary), well-funded, and venture-backed brand during a critical growth period
• We’re entering year 2 at the brand aka we’re actively in a fun phase of exploration and unconventional creativity! From a creative lens, we’re on a mission to refine and tighten up our visual world while expanding what we’ve already successfully built
• We’re not your traditional skincare brand or creative team; we like to bend the rules and not take ourselves too seriously
• You’ll be the third creative hire on the team, which means you’ll have creative autonomy over how the brand shows up in the world, with the support of the Creative Director
• You’ll flex across all sorts of diverse creative projects - we have big plans in the works
• You’ll learn and grow alongside a small yet ambitious and passionate team

What We Offer

• HealthCare: Health, dental & vision coverage
• Paid Holidays
• Unlimited PTO
• Access to 401K platform
• Free SY products
• Bi-annual team offsites
• Primarily remote; we do not have a full time office environment, but will occasionally meet as a team within the Los Angeles area

About Sincerely Yours

Sincerely Yours is on a mission to help teens and young adults feel at home in their skin and connected to their community. With skincare developed for the teen beauty enthusiast in mind, Sincerely Yours is building the most loved and trusted teen skincare brand that respects and celebrates our teens and their parents. The idea for Sincerely Yours began with creator Salish Matter, who opened up about her sensitive skin and found that thousands of teens in her community were facing the same challenges. Alongside her dad and creative partner, Jordan Matter, she set out to create a solution! Our effective and elevated formulas are approved for safety by leading dermatologists and the National Eczema Association. Every Sincerely Yours product is Clean at Sephora and co-created with input from our teen community. After a viral and extremely successful launch, we are expanding our team!