<p>Robert Half is recruiting for an Art Director on behalf of a leading global e-commerce apparel and lifestyle brand committed to providing customers with high-quality, stylish, and affordable essentials. This role plays a key part in defining and evolving the creative direction and visual identity for product imagery and digital presentation across multiple platforms. Reporting to the Creative Director, this role collaborates closely with cross-functional teams to develop imaging guidelines, elevate visual standards, and ensure brand consistency across all customer-facing content.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Location</strong>: Midtown Manhattan, NYC (onsite)</p><p><strong>Duration</strong>: 4-month contract</p><p><strong>Hours</strong>: 40 hours/week</p><p><strong>Pay Rate: </strong>$60-62/hour</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Lead the creation and implementation of comprehensive imaging guidelines, including mood, posing, hair/makeup, facial expressions, lighting, and composition to maintain brand consistency across multiple studio locations.</li><li>Establish and document formal standards for background colors, visual guardrails, and photography techniques to ensure cohesive visual identity.</li><li>Develop and facilitate training programs for studio teams and creative partners to drive seamless adoption of new guidelines.</li><li>Refresh and maintain Customer Experience (CX) documentation, collaborating with operations to ensure scalable processes for ongoing updates.</li><li>Create seasonal styling templates to ensure consistency across all collections and seasonal campaigns.</li><li>Partner with brand and creative teams to develop e-commerce brand guidelines that complement existing editorial standards and unify the visual language.</li><li>Conduct end-to-end customer journey reviews to identify gaps and opportunities for improving the brand experience.</li><li>Collaborate with studio, product, brand, and CX teams to maintain high creative standards and ensure brand alignment throughout the process.</li></ul>
<p><strong>Director of Employee Experience & Engagement</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for building culture, driving engagement, and making a lasting impact? Our client is seeking a <strong>highly visible leader</strong> to spearhead their employee experience and engagement strategy—someone who can <strong>build from the ground up</strong>, scale across an organization, and present confidently to senior leadership.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Design and lead</strong> a company-wide strategy for employee engagement and experience across all locations.</li><li><strong>Own and evolve</strong> Great Place to Work survey process—analyzing results, identifying trends, and delivering actionable insights to leadership.</li><li><strong>Create meaningful programs</strong> that celebrate a diverse workforce, including Employee Appreciation Days, team-building events, and CSR initiatives.</li><li><strong>Drive innovation</strong> in how they recognize and connect with their 1,500+ employees, fostering a strong, unified culture that can be scaled to affiliated companies.</li><li><strong>Lead CSR efforts</strong>, including quarterly reviews and the creation of annual impact report.</li><li><strong>Build partnerships</strong> with nonprofit and DEI organizations to enhance community impact and cultural initiatives.</li><li><strong>Deliver presentations</strong> to executive leadership. </li></ul><p><br></p>
<p>Our client, an international luxury goods retailer, is seeking a highly skilled Senior Intellectual Property Counsel to join their US Legal Department. This role is pivotal in creating and implementing strategies and objectives, managing trademark disputes and litigations, supporting trademark clearances and prosecution as well as managing the Legal Anti-Diversion team. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Intellectual Property:</strong></p><p>• Managing U.S. Intellectual Property disputes. This includes the following responsibilities: </p><p>o Draft and review cease and desist letters and other correspondence relating to IP infringements;</p><p>o Prepare opposition notices and cancellation petitions for USPTO; </p><p>o Negotiate, draft and revise settlement agreements; </p><p>o Manage international TM disputes and partner with US Head of Intellectual Property and global team to create universal strategy, implement the strategy in the US; and</p><p>o Manage relationships and case expectations with outside counsel handling TTAB proceedings and various intellectual property infringement matters. </p><p>• Create and implement IP strategies and objectives that align with global and regional priorities.</p><p>• Prosecute Trademark applications, including assisting in trademark clearance searches, advise Trademark Manager on responses to USPTO office actions and renewals.</p><p>• Advise key stakeholders on topics regarding copyright, patent, domain name and trade secret.</p><p>• Partner with the US Legal corporate team to prepare, draft and negotiate commercial contracts, as needed.</p><p>• People management: manage the senior paralegal including creating priorities and associated responsibilities for this role.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Anti-Diversion: </strong></p><p>• Develop, define, and implement strategies to achieve program objectives.</p><p>• Plan, organize, and direct the operations of the program.</p><p>• Align program objectives with company's long-term vision for the Brand.</p><p>• Set and review KPIs to meet program objectives.</p><p>• Develop and implement strategies to maximize commercial and legal actions.</p><p>• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to enforce policies, mitigate diversion, and protect company's authorized distribution.</p><p>• Partner with Global Anti-Diversion in the worldwide execution of the program.</p><p>• Develop and issue US reporting to Leadership and Senior Management.</p><p>• Develop and implement educational resources to increase program knowledge and efficiency.</p><p>• Manage the program budget to maximize cost effectiveness.</p><p>• Manage the Legal Anti-Diversion team.</p><p><br></p><p>Years of experience needed - at least 7 years in trademark and IP. Anti-diversion experience is *not* needed. </p><p>Salary is commensurable with experience - about $135K - $185K + 15% target annual bonus. </p>
