As Australia’s favourite lifestyle brand, beloved around the world, we deliver timeless Australian style that is designed for life and made to last. 

The Art Director plays a key role in bringing the Country Road brand to life through compelling, commercially relevant creative across integrated marketing campaigns and customer touchpoints. Working closely with the Marketing and Creative teams, this role will help shape and execute campaign concepts across photography, video, copy and digital content, ensuring a consistent and elevated brand expression across all channels.

With a strong understanding of fashion, customer and market trends, the Art Director will translate the Country Road strategy into engaging creative that drives awareness, consideration and commercial outcomes. The role will work collaboratively across Marketing, Digital, E-commerce and Visual Merchandising to ensure campaigns are connected, cohesive and impactful from concept through to execution.

The role will also contribute to the ongoing evolution of Country Road’s digital brand experience, identifying opportunities to innovate across digital assets and improve the customer journey, engagement and online performance.

How You Will Contribute 

• Assist the Creative Manager in developing and delivering Country Road campaign creative, from concept through to final assets.
• Support art direction across campaign shoots, including talent, locations, styling, copy, post-production and retouching.
• Shape the creative vision across Kids and Home, while contributing to campaigns across all Country Road categories.
• Develop creative concepts that can be leveraged across multiple channels and customer touchpoints.
• Partner with Graphic Design to bring seasonal creative to life across digital, social, email, advertising, PR, packaging and in-store.
• Stay ahead of emerging creative, fashion and cultural trends, competitor activity and evolving customer expectations.
• Contribute to monthly marketing strategies, creative briefs and longer-term brand strategy alongside senior Marketing and Creative stakeholders.
• Bring a strong understanding of fashion, brand storytelling and commercial marketing to every creative project.
• Champion new creative tools, AI-enabled workflows and innovative ways of working to elevate output and team efficiency.
• Collaborate across teams to create inspiring, on-brand and commercially impactful work that brings the Country Road brand vision to life.

Capabilities We Value

• 5+ years’ experience in fashion art direction, with a strong portfolio across campaigns and/or editorial.
• Relevant qualifications in Fine Art, Graphic Design or a related creative discipline preferred.
• Strong understanding of graphic design and responsive design across multiple devices and channels.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, particularly InDesign and Photoshop.
• Passionate about fashion, creativity, design and emerging creative trends.
• Commercially minded, with a proven ability to deliver high-quality, on-brand creative that drives commercial outcomes.
• Exceptional communication, organisation, time management and attention to detail, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

What We Offer

• Flexible work arrangements to support work life balance 
• Bi-annual product allowance, access to sample sales and 40% discount for you and your immediate family across all CRG brands 
• Flex your leave your way, including birthday leave, volunteer leave, personal leave and more 
• Access to health and wellbeing support, including Health Insurance, 24/7 EAP counselling and financial advice services. 
• 18 weeks paid parental leave program for eligible employees with return-to-work clothing allowance 
• Internal career opportunities across our portfolio brands 
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities 
• Support meaningful community and charity partnerships across our brands, including OCRF, Our Watch, First Nations Reconciliation, Movember, Red Cross and Landcare 

Who We Are 

Country Road Group is a design-led portfolio of premium fashion brands, comprising five iconic labels: Country Road, Mimco, Trenery, Witchery and Politix. Each brand has its own story, and together they hold a market-leading position in the mid to upper tier of Australia's specialty fashion segment with a focus on delivering our ambition to build a portfolio of distinctive brands that drive sustainable growth. Country Road Group is part of Woolworths Holdings Limited (South Africa), a leading Southern Hemisphere retail group. 

Country Road Group acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders past and present.   

We’re committed to inclusion and accessibility. If we can support you with any adjustments at any stage, please let us know.