Associate Creative Director

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.