The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  NexGen Systems is hiring a Art Director in Ames, IA.

• Role description

  Step into a studio culture where temporary work, real ownership, and a $121,000 - $185,000 budget back an Art Director who actually ships. This Art Director role hands director talent $121,000 - $185,000, a temporary arrangement in IA, and the latitude to call the shots.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Anchor a chaotic creative launch around one image that means something
  • Test and optimize creative variations through A/B experiments
  • Turn rough briefs into polished Service Design deliverables the creative team can ship
  • Read the room mid-presentation and reorder the deck on the fly
  • Trace every Service Design asset back to the brief so revisions stay honest
  • Convert vague deadline-driven adjectives from a brief into concrete, defensible choices
  • Bring concepts to life through motion, illustration, or interactive media

  What You'll Bring

  • Comfort owning a number that goes up or down because of you
  • Ownership-driven problem-solving that doesn't wait for permission
  • The communication discipline to over-share early and trim later
  • Curiosity that outpaces your current job description
  • A NexGen Systems mindset: scrappy today, scalable tomorrow

  NexGen Systems exists to solve hard creative problems with a quality-obsessed approach and an Ames, IA-rooted culture. Mistakes get dissected for lessons at NexGen Systems, never weaponized in your next review.

  Beyond $121,000 - $185,000, NexGen Systems invests in your growth, assigns you a mentor, and lets you flex hours across Ames, IA as you need.

  This opening was refreshed recently and remains an active priority for the team.

  Don't just bookmark this Art Director posting in Ames, act on it and apply today.

• Required skills

  • A/B Testing
  • Visual Design
  • Responsive Design
  • Design Systems
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Atomic Design
  • Accessibility (WCAG)
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Service Design
  • Heuristic Evaluation
  • Collaboration
  • Presentation Skills
  • Delegation
  • Attention Management

• Benefits & perks

  • Relocation assistance
  • Patent and innovation bonuses
  • Home Office Setup
  • Payroll advance options
  • Domestic partner benefits
  • Happy Hours
  • Annual company offsite
  • Prescription drug coverage

• Apply before 2026-08-06

  Submit your application for this Temporary creative position.