Art Directors, task by task.

The work this job is made of, grouped and scored on how much of its output software can produce today, then linked to what addresses it. What is left over is the job. The full activity list is underneath.

Also filed here23
  • art manager
  • art director
  • art supervisor
  • design manager
  • art coordinator
  • design director
  • creative manager
  • artistic director
  • magazine designer
  • digital art director
  • group art supervisor
  • creative art director
  • presentation director
  • brand creative director
  • and 9 more
SOC code
27-1011.00
Activities scored
6
In O*NET
18 activities
Activities an agent can take on
4
Grounded in
O*NET 30.3
The tasks · Art DirectorsSOC 27-1011.00
88% · agentMostly automatable
85% · agentMostly automatable
82% · agentMostly automatable
78% · agentMostly automatable
48% · you keepPartly automatable
22% · you keepBarely automatable
The team4 agents · 4 need no setup
Layout & Design Agent
Adobe Illustrator · Adobe InDesign · Figma
● No integration needed
Illustration & Storyboard Agent
Adobe Photoshop · Adobe Illustrator · Adobe After Effects
● No integration needed
Design Research Agent
Web · Search · Docs
● No integration needed
Design Review Agent
Adobe Acrobat · Adobe Creative Cloud software · Docs
● No integration needed
You keep this
Present final work to clients and secure approvalOwn client relationships and negotiate service agreementsMake final creative direction decisions and approve deliverablesHire, train, and lead creative staff

Automatability scores estimate how much of a task an agent can reliably do today, grounded in O*NET task data. They are not predictions of job loss.

Start with these three

The most automatable work in this job, and the one tool we would use for each. Every task has a page of its own with the reasoning and every occupation that does it.

Design layouts, graphics, and visual materials88% · drafting and content production · mostly automatable
Create illustrations, storyboards, and technical graphics85% · drafting and content production · mostly automatable
Research design trends and new technologies82% · research and retrieval work · mostly automatable

The full activity list

All 18 detailed work activities O*NET records for Art Directors, grouped by how much of each one software can take on. Every row has its own page.