Art Director for Digital Marketing Agency

Gaia Digital Agency is a full-service digital agency based in Ubud, Bali, with a team of 35+ across web development, SEO, social media, creative, and AI. Our clients are hotels, resorts, F&B brands, luxury lifestyle brands, and wellness and medical clients, most of them fighting for attention against dozens of visually similar competitors. In an industry this visual, creative quality is not decoration, it is the pitch. We are hiring an Art Director to make sure everything we put in front of a client is genuinely excellent, and that the client feels that the moment they see it.

That is the job in one sentence: creative output that is amazing, and clients who love it. Those two things are not automatically the same, and a large part of this role is holding both at once, pushing the work to a level you are personally proud of while still landing inside what the client actually needs, on brand, on brief, and on time. You are the person in the room who can tell the difference between a client asking for something worse and a client asking for something different, and who knows how to respond to each.

Your scope is the full range of what a creative team produces, not one medium inside it. You will direct and review video, graphic design, and branding work, and you need enough range to be equally credible sitting in on a color grade, checking a social carousel for consistency, and reviewing a brand identity deck. Different projects will lean on different parts of that range, but the standard you hold should not change depending on the medium.

Hands-on experience in cinema production, whether as a director of photography or as a colorist, is a strong advantage for this role. Video is an increasingly central part of what our hospitality and F&B clients need, from brand films to guest experience content, and someone who has actually shot and graded footage brings a level of craft and eye that is hard to fake from the director's chair alone. You do not need to be behind the camera or in the grading suite on every project, but when it matters, being able to step in and do it yourself raises the ceiling on what we can deliver.

You will lead the creative team day to day: setting the quality bar, giving feedback that actually improves the work rather than just marking it up, and reviewing what goes out before a client ever sees it. You will also work closely with our other teams, including social media, website, SEO, and AI, so that creative work is briefed properly, built around real campaign and strategic needs, and stays consistent with brand direction as it moves across channels. Creative here does not sit in a silo waiting for instructions; it works with the teams around it.

You will also be client-facing when needed, presenting creative direction, explaining the thinking behind a choice, and turning client feedback into a clear next step without losing what made the work good in the first place. Comfort with AI-assisted tools for ideation and rapid iteration, such as Midjourney, Runway, or Claude Design, is a plus, since we use these to move faster without lowering our own bar.

If you are someone who can go from directing a hero video shoot to reviewing a logo lockup to sitting in a client review defending a creative decision, and you genuinely believe great creative work and a happy client are not in tension, we would like to meet you.

To apply, please share your portfolio along with one project where you handled cinematography or color grading yourself, and one graphic design or branding project you led. Briefly tell us how you balanced your creative ambition for that work with what the client actually needed.