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Associate Creative Director (Experiential Agency)

Place Staffing · Chicago, IL, USA · Remote ·

Job type:
Contract

Specialized event/trade show agency is looking for strategic senior visual creative with event agency experience designing integrated 360 campaigns for experiential / events for well known tech/b2b brand clients.

Ensure all your application information is up to date and in order before applying for this opportunity.

In this dynamic long-term contract , you will be an integral part of the hands-on creative team working very closely with the client, creative leadership, and 3D team to ensure that the vision set forth is brought to life on all Components in a unique and thought provoking way across all mediums (motion graphics, traditional large scale graphics/print, illustration, environmental/experiential).

The ideal individual is someone who appreciates and thrives on the design process from concept through completion, has considerable environmental/large experiential experience and works well in a fast paced creative environment.

This position is a long term contract remote position but needs to be within the US.

Responsibilities:

Assist in leading wayfinding, motion graphics, brand / digital graphics, customer stories

Assist with design/layout of all 2D key creative elements (signage attendee flow, illustration, motion, and traditional design)

Assist in generating creative ideas and help direct how those ideas/events come to life

Present ideas to clients and brand team

Partner closely with event producers to vet ideas

Coordinate design projects with creative project managers and digital producers

Concepts aligned to briefs with words, found images and sketches

Client facing role helping establishing look and feel for key event-wide work streams

Assist designers with design, animate the creative elements of each project

Coming in with agency and event/experiential experience with samples will cater towards the need to be able to juggle multiple high-level design components simultaneously. xxzpjkt

Qualifications:

4+ years agency design and industry experience

2+ years experiential / agency design experience

Degree in Graphic Design or a related creative discipline

Portfolio, showing a strong sense of print, typography, brand design in 360 campaigns with events/environmental/trade show

Storyboarding experience

Poise and focus under pressure

Advanced in the Adobe Creative Suite; InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator

High level sense of design, layout, and typography combined with strong conceptual skills reflected in portfolio

Strong creative, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills

Strong interpersonal skills; a team player who is positive and collaborative

Passion (the ability to view the work as fun!)

If interested, please submit a resume and portfolio showing relevant creative experience to be considered.