Senior Creative Director, Experiential Design & Brand Environments

New York City, NY (On-site)

$180K/yr – $190K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end experiential design programs across Hearst, translating brand priorities into large-scale installations and interactive experiences. Lead collaboration with external partners, manage budgets and schedules, and explore emerging technologies to enhance audience engagement.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop a deep understanding of Hearst’s businesses, corporate initiatives, communications priorities, and brand strategies.
  • Translate Hearst brands, businesses, content, and corporate priorities into compelling physical experiences that communicate key messages and create memorable audience interactions.
  • Work directly with Hearst’s outside experience design partner on the creation of the new multimedia space. Represent the Hearst brand for all creative executions.
  • Design and produce presentations, environmental graphics, video content, installation concepts, and experiential creative assets from concept through final execution.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders across Hearst divisions to develop experiences that support business and communications objectives.
  • Explore and implement emerging technologies including AI-driven experiences, interactive media, projection mapping, immersive storytelling platforms, digital installations, and innovative audience engagement tools.
  • Manage budgets, approvals, project forecasting, and financial reporting.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in experiential design, exhibition design, environmental graphics, branded environments, retail activations, event design, architecture, or related creative disciplines.
  • Quantifiable experience in the development and creation of large-scale installations, exhibitions, activations, pop-up environments, immersive experiences, or cultural programming.
  • Experience managing budgets, schedules, fabrication partners, agencies, consultants, and production teams.
  • Strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, top editing programs and AI tools.
  • Understanding of fabrication methods, materials, lighting systems, audiovisual technologies, installation logistics, and production best practices.

Preferred

  • AI fluency.

Benefits

  • medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, 401(k), paid holidays and paid time off, employee assistance programs, and more.
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As one of the nation’s largest global, diversified information, services and media companies, Hearst has been leading with purpose and integrity and innovating for more than a century. With a mission to inform audiences and improve lives, the company’s portfolio includes global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; Hearst Transportation, which includes CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing the maintenance of jets and helicopters; 35 television stations; 24 daily and 52 weekly newspapers; more than 200 magazine editions around the world and ownership in cable television networks A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN. Leading with purpose, Hearst is always moving forward. With a commitment to the highest quality in our products and services, we’re investing in healthcare solutions to help improve patient outcomes and technology that curbs emissions. Our brands are providing vital analysis, data and software to the global financial services industry; delivering important service and investigative journalism; and inspiring audiences with sports and entertainment programming. And we are dedicated to serving the communities it operates in, both civically and philanthropically.

Founded in 1981
New York, New York, USA
6.4K employees (1,993 in marketing)
65% recommend to a friend
78% CEO approval

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27.6%
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56.2%
Referral
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Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~5.6K

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1,455 (23% of company)
Median Career Experience
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