Responsibilities

• - Brand Activation Projects
• - Support the Sr. Manager of Activation Design Strategy across assigned sponsorship, partnership, and premium event activations, helping manage day-to-day design needs and project deliverables.
• - Collaborate with internal American Express teams and external experiential agencies to optimize brand experiences, leveraging design to bring the American Express brand to life in memorable and contextually relevant ways.
• - Support the creative briefing and development process by helping translate brand strategy, design principles, creative territories, and brand mandatories into actionable guidance for agency partners.
• - Participate in creative and design reviews throughout project development, evaluating concepts, layouts, renderings, materials, signage, graphics, furniture, lighting, and other experiential elements through a brand lens.
• - Consolidate, organize, and communicate design feedback to internal and external partners, helping ensure direction is clear, actionable, and responsive to project timelines and production realities.
• - Review agency creative and production deliverables with an understanding of how design decisions translate into materials, fabrication, installation, and the final in-person experience.
• - Support evaluation of brand presence and asset usage across experiences through “brand mapping” and other design review exercises.
• - Maintain organized project documentation, including creative reviews, design feedback and decisions, key milestones, specifications, and final deliverables.
• - Participate in project status meetings, design reviews, and agency working sessions, proactively tracking design-related open items and supporting timely follow-through.

Requirements

• - 3+ years of experience in experiential design, production design, branded environments, brand design, or a similar discipline, with experiential agency and/or brand-side experience preferred.
• - Strong understanding of experiential design and how brand identity translates into physical, three-dimensional consumer environments.
• - Experience working with experiential agencies and familiarity with the creative development process from initial concept through production and execution.
• - Working knowledge of fabrication and production processes, including materials, construction methods, technical documentation, installation timelines, and production terminology.
• - Ability to evaluate creative concepts from both a brand and executional perspective, understanding how design direction translates into real-world fabrication and physical experiences.
• - Strong foundation in brand design and visual identity systems, including typography, color, materials, graphics, signage, and other environmental brand expressions.
• - Ability to clearly communicate design feedback and direction, both verbally and visually, to internal and external partners.
• - Ability to work effectively within compressed project and production timelines, adapting to evolving project needs and priorities.
• - Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple projects, deliverables, and rounds of creative development simultaneously.
• - Comfortable working within compressed project and production timelines and adapting as project needs evolve.

Benefits

• - Competitive base salaries
• - Bonus incentives
• - 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
• - Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
• - Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
• - Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• - 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
• - Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• - Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
• - Career development and training opportunities