Associate Creative Director

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$130K/yr – $145K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 8 days ago

Job Summary

Own and lead creative development for brand activations and immersive experiences across diverse verticals, guiding concept, visual strategy, and client storytelling from concept to production.

  • Own creative vision across projects, collaborating with strategy and production.
  • Lead high-priority accounts, ensuring craft, feasibility, and cultural relevance.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead all creative development for brand activations, integrated campaigns, and immersive experiences across verticals (lifestyle, beauty, CPG, fashion, sports, etc.), concepting through rapid production.
  • Own creative vision across multiple projects—developing concept, messaging, and visual approach in collaboration with strategy and production.
  • Produce floor plans, renderings, technical documentation, and design presentations.
  • Craft and present client-facing decks that balance storytelling and strategic clarity.
  • Champion innovation and originality while maintaining feasibility and brand integrity.
  • Serve as primary creative lead on high-priority accounts or campaigns.
  • Stay close to the work, ensuring ideas are not only strong conceptually but executed with craft, clarity, and cultural relevance.
  • Collaborate closely with production teams and client service teams to ensure design feasibility and execution.
  • Participate in site visits, installs, and walkthroughs to maintain design integrity.
  • Maintain organized design files and documentation across projects.

Requirements

  • 8–10 years in creative roles within experiential, brand, or agency settings, with demonstrated leadership in cross-functional and client-facing work.
  • Bachelor’s degree in environment/exhibition design, architecture design, interior design, marketing, or related creative discipline.
  • Minimum of 2 years in a senior design role, which includes leading creative development, managing projects, and mentoring junior designers.
  • Mastery in concepting, storytelling, and translating strategy into compelling creative.
  • Strong presentation, storytelling, and communication skills, both visually and verbally.
  • Experience leading teams and managing client expectations.
  • Advanced proficiency with industry tools (Adobe Suite, Keynote, Google Slides) and creative processes from ideation to execution.
  • Strong proficiency with 3D programs and AI-powered creative tools to support ideation, concept development, mood boards, and visualization workflows.
  • A significant portfolio showcasing work for luxury, premium, or high-end lifestyle brands.

Benefits

  • A hybrid in-office/remote team requires three in-office days per week, two work-remotely days.
  • Additional benefits include employer contributions to medical, vision, dental, and life insurance, paid parental leave, vacation time, 14 holidays, a winter holiday closure, and Summer Fridays.
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Amplified Marketing

We create specialized marketing poised for mass adoption. We're about amplifying influence and leveraging the networks that create it. We've been Brand Manager, PR Associates, Distributor Reps, Event Producers, Field Managers, Content Creators, Bartenders (ahem Mixologists), Copy Writers, Retail Associates and Strategists to name a few.Our deep understanding and direct connections to the worlds of music, art, fashion and technology enable us to not just integrate brands, but define lifestyle segments.

Founded in 2015
New York, New York, USA
32 employees (9 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$130K/yr – $145K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
7 (22% of company)
Median Tenure
3.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.8%
Direct
41.8%
Referral
12.8%
Social
9.9%
Paid
1.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~32
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Associate Creative Director

Amplified Marketing · New York City, NY · Hybrid