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# Art Director at Orchestra

- **Company:** Orchestra
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-09-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-18
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/orchestra/jobs/8806951002

## Job description

## ABOUT ORCHESTRA

Orchestra is a strategic communications and marketing company built for today’s complex and fragmented world. From decoding audiences to designing bold strategies, Orchestra integrates people, platforms, and stories that stick to help clients build lasting influence. The company offers programs that span from the highest level strategic business counsel through to tactical execution. Orchestra brings together 700+ people with experience across consumer and lifestyle, technology, nonprofit and philanthropy, real estate, sports, travel, hospitality, and more. Made up of leading firms[BerlinRosen](https://www.berlinrosen.com/),[Civitas Public Affairs Group](https://www.civitaspublicaffairs.com/),[Derris](http://derris.com/),[Glen Echo Group](https://www.glenechogroup.com/),[Inkhouse](http://inkhouse.com/),[M18](http://m18pr.com/),[Message Lab](https://messagelab.com/),[Onward](https://thisisonward.com/) and[Small Girls PR](https://www.smallgirlspr.com/). It also launched[Brightmode](http://www.brightmode.com/), a talent acquisition firm for communications professionals, and[Versus Media Group](https://www.versusmediagroup.com/), a strategy-first political media team. Learn more at [www.orchestraco.com](https://www.orchestraco.com).

People of all backgrounds and abilities are strongly encouraged to apply. Orchestra is committed to building and maintaining a diverse staff, and recognizes that its continued success depends on hiring and retaining high-quality creative professionals with a variety of backgrounds and experiences. Opportunities for advancement exist, and we are committed to helping all staff develop and grow.

## ABOUT THIS ROLE

## ACCOUNTABILITIES & QUALIFICATIONS

As an Art Director, your responsibilities will include:

- Responsible for working in partnership with account team members to concept, design, and execute multiple client projects simultaneously like social graphics, digital marketing (email and social), and online advertising campaigns;
- Establishing art direction, style and tone for brand campaigns across all channels;
- Ensuring visual designs adhere to project requirements, objectives, and timelines and upholding brand standards across all projects with a keen eye for typography, graphic design, and illustration;
- Liaise with clients to understand their expectations and develop and present a creative or brand strategy for approval;
- Managing timelines, tasks, and budgets for each project;
- Managing and mentoring digital design team members and freelancers including, reviews, workflows, timelines and design delegation;
- Interpreting complex ideas into visual narratives and brainstorming strategies with senior team members;
- Negotiating with contractors and social media influencers to ensure timelines and project expectations are met.

Essential Skills:

- Education Requirement: Master’s degree in fine arts, strategic design and management or related field and 1 year of experience in the position offered or related occupation.
- Other Special Skills or Requirements: Must have demonstrated proficiency with:
- Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Animate, Flash, XD), AutoCAD (Basics), Invision, Sketch, Google Slides, Keynote, and Microsoft Powerpoint;
- Conceptual thinking and hands-on design skills, including knowledge of video editing and animation as well as experience with Web Flow, Asana, and mailchimp;
- Typography, color, layout, production, and other design principles along with knowledge of file naming, file formats, pixel dimensions, web optimization, and design accessibility;
- Changing design aesthetic and approach to fit a variety of output mediums, campaigns and audiences;
- Interpreting complex ideas visually through color, photography and typography;
- Communicating and managing the design process with stakeholders.

## WORKING AT ORCHESTRA

SALARY: The base salary is $128,398.00 per year. HOURS: 40 hours per week, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. (Mon-Fri) JOB LOCATION: 195 Broadway, 26th Floor, New York, NY 10007

## #LI-DNI

Orchestra is the first communications company built for today’s media landscape. Since 2022, it’s acquired nine firms, including: [BerlinRosen](https://www.berlinrosen.com/), [Civitas Public Affairs Group](https://www.civitaspublicaffairs.com/), [Derris](http://derris.com/), [Glen Echo Group](https://www.glenechogroup.com/), [Inkhouse](http://inkhouse.com/), [M18](http://m18pr.com/), [Message Lab](https://messagelab.com/), [Onward](https://thisisonward.com/) and [Small Girls PR](https://www.smallgirlspr.com/). It also launched [Brightmode](http://www.brightmode.com/), a talent acquisition firm for communication professionals. Learn more at: [www.orchestraco.com](http://www.orchestraco.com/).

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## About Orchestra

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Orchestra is a strategic communications and marketing company that combines C-suite advisory, integrated strategy, and multichannel execution to help brands navigate today’s fragmented, fast-moving media landscape.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held – no disclosed funding rounds; formed through mergers and acquisitions)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2024 (as Orchestra; constituent agencies such as BerlinRosen, Derris, Inkhouse have deeper histories)
- **Key Leaders**: Jonathan Rosen (CEO), Jesse Derris (President), Ben Worthen (Chief Product Officer)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Public Relations and Communications Services (integrated marketing, earned media, public affairs, influencer, SEO, paid media, creative)
- **Target customers**: B2B, enterprise, and high-profile organizations (C-suites, brands, nonprofits, policy stakeholders) that need coordinated, advisory-led communications
- **Mission/purpose**: “We shape what’s next” – turning uncertainty into action by uniting advisory, strategy, and execution to earn and sustain the right kind of attention.

## Products & Services
- **Strategic Advisory & C-Suite Counsel**: Working alongside senior leaders to diagnose problems, clarify what matters (customers, employees, policymakers, investors), and design integrated strategies.
- **Integrated Communications Execution**: Coordinated delivery across earned media, content marketing, SEO, influencer, paid media, creative, and public affairs under a single “One Orchestra” model.
- **Prompt Fuel 360 (Answer Engine Optimization)**: A repeatable product that optimizes brand visibility on generative AI platforms (e.g., ChatGPT) by combining earned media, technical SEO, owned content, influencer engagement, and analytics.
- **Intelligence Infrastructure & AI Automation**: Systems that capture data from hundreds of client engagements, standardize delivery playbooks, and embed AI into workflows to make the entire offering smarter over time.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Headcount ~700+ (website claim includes all collective team members; LinkedIn reports 156 employees under the parent entity, with a -68.6% YoY headcount change – likely reflecting restructuring after acquisitions)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No outside funding disclosed; orchestrated through acquisitions of Civitas Public Affairs Group (Sep 2024) and Small Girls PR (Oct 2024). Constituent agencies include BerlinRosen, Derris, Inkhouse, Glen Echo Group, Brightmode Talent, Antenna Group.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 35 active job postings (up 3,400% YoY, but down 30% quarterly)
  - Launch of product organization and Chief Product Officer role (Ben Worthen)
  - Prompt Fuel 360 already in use across consumer and B2B engagements
  - Active in 6 countries (USA, Serbia, Spain, UK, Canada, Colombia)
  - LinkedIn followers: 10,112 (130.8% yearly growth)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Integrated “One Orchestra” model**: Breaks down silos between earned, owned, paid, and creative – a structure that competing agencies typically cannot offer within a single P&L.
- **Product-driven approach**: Codifying repeatable playbooks and measurement frameworks (e.g., Prompt Fuel 360) that compound knowledge with every engagement, making delivery consistent and scalable.
- **AI-first infrastructure**: Process standardized before automation; each automated workflow feeds data back into intelligence systems, creating a learning loop that gets stronger over time.
- **Depth of talent**: 700+ advisors, strategists, and storytellers from a diverse set of acquired agencies, covering public affairs, consumer PR, creative, and digital.

## Strategic Focus
- **Building the Product organization**: Scaling standardized, repeatable offerings that integrate all disciplines (earned, owned, paid, creative, AI).
- **Embedding AI into client delivery**: Moving from foundation-building (AI tools & training) to embedding AI directly into how work is done – with a focus on automation, intelligence, and compound learning.
- **Expanding Prompt Fuel 360**: Taking the Answer Engine Optimization product to more clients and refining its measurement framework.
- **M&A integration**: Continuing to unify acquired agencies under one operational and cultural umbrella (“One Orchestra”).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Positions itself as a place for “changemakers” – people energized by complexity and collaboration across disciplines. Emphasizes curiosity, transparency, and a forward-looking mindset.
- **Work model**: Headquarters in New York with offices across North America and Europe. Likely hybrid in-office presence given client-facing nature. Not remote-only but flexible locations.
- **Engineering/product culture**: Rapidly building a product organization that values standardization, data, and AI. Offers role of “Account Director, Product” and other innovation-focused positions.
- **Perks & environment**: Not detailed explicitly; however, the blog post highlights an “AI-forward” culture where learning and experimentation are encouraged. Large agency network provides exposure to high-profile clients and complex challenges.
- **Growth trajectory**: Despite headcount fluctuations, the company is investing in product, AI, and integrated delivery – a signal of ambition to lead the next generation of communications.

## Sources
1. [orchestraco.com](https://www.orchestraco.com/)
2. [orchestraco.com/careers](https://www.orchestraco.com/careers)
3. [linkedin.com/company/orchestraco](https://www.linkedin.com/company/orchestraco)
4. [orchestraco.com/leadership](https://www.orchestraco.com/leadership)
5. [orchestraco.com/insights/what-it-means-to-be-a-product-driven-communications-firm](https://www.orchestraco.com/insights/what-it-means-to-be-a-product-driven-communications-firm)

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