Art Director
AirTree Ventures is a network-powered venture capital firm backing Australian and New Zealand founders building iconic technology companies. It invests across stages from seed to growth and supports its portfolio through founder and operator networks, talent, press and customer introductions.
About AirTree Ventures
AirTree Ventures is a network-powered VC that backs Aussie and Kiwi founders, growing and supporting the ANZ startup ecosystem. It has invested in 140+ portfolio companies and 250+ founders, helping create over 19,000 jobs. The firm recently announced its Fund V, a $650m fund comprising a $250M Seed fund and a $400M Growth fund, to back founders from idea stage to becoming global household names. Beyond capital, AirTree runs programs such as Pioneer (for outlier women and gender-diverse people in tech) and Explorer (nurturing diverse angel investors), and publishes 'Open Source VC' content including company-building guides, templates, databases and interviews. Clients/portfolio companies include notable Australian startups such as Canva, Xplor, Kismet and Qwilr, reflecting a focus on early-stage to growth-stage technology founders in Australia and New Zealand.
Skills
About the Role
You'll own visual craft end-to-end, from shaping how a campaign idea comes to life in a pitch, to what it looks and feels like in market across paid social, YouTube, and beyond. Some days you'll be on the tools yourself, and on others you'll direct a shoot or guide a team through a fast-turnaround sprint. The work spans quick social shoots at the Juniper office through to multi-month campaigns with celebrities, and everything in between. You'll work closely with the performance marketing team, feeding creative data back into ideation and driving fast iterations across Juniper's weekly creative cycles. As the visual identity custodian for the growth team, you'll be the connective tissue between growth, product, web, and global brand, ensuring consistency across every touchpoint and acting as the growth team's key point of contact through an upcoming rebrand.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in advertising design, graphic design, art direction, or closely related creative roles, ideally with strong in-house experience
- Background in an Australian design or advertising agency, with a portfolio that demonstrates strong craft across ads, branding, and campaign identity
- A sharp visual eye with strengths in typography, layout, imagery, and building polished, premium brand expression
- Comfortable being hands-on in the work, using design craft to respond to briefs and turn ideas into high-quality creative outputs
- Sydney-based and able to work closely with the team in person, including regular involvement in shoots and collaborative creative development
- Understanding of and empathy for the sensitive category Juniper operates in
- Passion for women's health
- Comfortable working with performance data and using insights to improve creative work
Responsibilities
- Lead the visual craft of projects from concept to execution and live in market, spanning art direction, storyboarding, campaign identity, and social content, with a strong focus on paid social and campaign and YouTube
- Respond to early-stage briefs by generating ideas and pitching them to senior stakeholders
- Champion art and visual direction across pre-production and on set
- Contribute to casting decisions and collaborate with external contractors such as stylists, producers, HMUA, and production designers
- Review creative performance data and contribute to weekly ideation sessions with the performance marketing team
- Guide day-to-day output from paid social editing teams while executing on simultaneous projects across larger campaigns
- Manage and coach a small team of senior creatives specialising in post-production
- Act as custodian of Juniper's visual identity and build cross-functional relationships with designers across product, web, email, and global teams
- Act as the growth team's key point of contact for a rebrand