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American Institute of Architects

Experiential Creative Director

American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles, California, United States, 90079

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Untitled Future is seeking a highly-skilled creative director to join our team. As an ideal candidate, you have a vision for capturing an idea and translating it into a reality. You’ve developed inspiring creative concepts, immersive story-driven experiences, and helped a creative team flourish by instilling confidence in designers, artists and producers at each step of a process. At the same time, you have content and experience production expertise and a deep bench of creative resources to bring your work to life with quality and excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Develop experiential concepts and establish creative vision for all projects from story to execution

Leverage key insights, audience portraits and other research in creative brief and approach development

Express creative concepts with exacting detail, bringing textures, colors, materials to them

Facilitate development of technical build drawings for all build elements; manage fabrication process

Draft meticulous site layouts and floor plans detailing flow and purpose with space

Design decor layouts and source items, artisans and purveyors to procure elements

Manage resources and project timelines, establish deliverables, proactively address roadblocks

Establish visual language and lead design of program decks to communicate concepts and visual narrative

Oversee onsite creative execution; managing and directing installation, onsite styling/set dressing

Build, lead, and manage creative team as agency continues to expand its creative bench

Continuously pitch creative work and advocate for the work of your team in client, internal and pitch meetings

Manage resources and project timelines, establish deliverables, proactively address roadblocks

Establish strong relationships with clients and partners as leading voice within the agency

Proactively seek opportunities to elevate experiences and deepen client and community value

Role Requirements

Deep understanding of experiential, brand and content creative concept and design

Experience in architecture, industrial design and immersive experiences (or related fields)

3D design experience; SketchUp, AutoCAD, Rhino, Adobe Suite (and others)

Robust portfolio that showcases work, process and strategy implementation

Strong presentation and communication skills both written and verbal

Confidence and experience leading creative production from conception to end result

Budget, timeline, resource, scheduling, deliverable management skills

Desire to work in a collaborative, cross-functional agency

Superior leadership skills, with a focus on employee coaching and development

Strong proficiency with Google Workspace/Office 365/Adobe Suite

Extremely well-read in a wide variety of topics (both for pleasure and work)

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