Responsibilities

• Creative Strategy: Own the brief. Initiate creative excellence by ensuring the brief is complete and sets the team up for success with clear objectives and a clear creative scope. Join early client calls, support Q+A sessions, ask for supporting documents or insights and flesh out the brief as needed to make sure the project starts from a solid foundation.
• Define the Lead the team in developing work that is on brief, on brand and fueled by intelligent insights. Collaborate expertly with strategists in this process.
• Prove Understand how measurement, data collection and analysis, and storytelling with data can positively impact the work. Integrate key stats into case studies, recaps, and award submissions, always telling the story with factual grounding and impressive impact stats.
• Ideation + Concepts: Seek to consistently and relentlessly elevate the work. Develop concepts that meet the brief, consider the audience, leverage the best elements of the brand, and add value by pushing the creative in a bold direction.
• Communicate Understand that design is communication and work with team members to bring ideas to life both visually and verbally.
• Work with all team members to push and refine creative ideas and design solutions (before sharing with creative leadership or clients).
• Presentation: Inspire and Deliver pitches and new ideas with both enthusiasm and grounding, winning over the hearts and minds of internal and external teams and giving momentum to the creative work.
• Expertly present ideas to teams and clients with compelling and strategic rationale, inventive design solutions, and a client-centric level of finesse. Be ready to field questions and defend creative choices (while also being understanding of the needs and the feedback).
• Execution: Create the work. Own your craft. Generate best-in-class design work that moves your projects forward and sets an example for the team.
• Understand project requirements (budget, timeline, etc) and help manage deliverables and quality control of all creative work to meet the overarching program goals.

Requirements

• Software: Microsoft Office + Google Workspace: Demonstrate high proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Teams, as well as Google Meet, Chat, Slides, Drive, Sheets, Docs and any other tools relevant to the work.
• Actively own and manage Google Slides templates and decks for all projects with a high level of polish.
• 2D (Adobe CC, etc): Demonstrate expert level proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, with an emphasis on expert graphic design for all print and digital needs
• Industry + Culture: Share industry and cultural trends with teams for inspiration
• Stay in-the-know about the experiential industry and adjacent industries in order to deepen subject matter expertise and foster exciting new solutions

Preferred

• Proficiency in After Effects or other motion graphics or video tools is a plus
• Proficiency in AI-based visuals tools (Midjouney, Gemini, Runway, etc) is a plus
• 3D (Sketchup, Rhino, 3DMax, Revit, AutoCAD, etc): Familiarity with modeling and rendering tools is a plus
• Advancement + Troubleshooting: Demonstrate an ability to problem-solve software needs and learn new software as needed.