Sr. Designer / Art Director (Experiential Agency)

Specialized event/trade show agency is looking for talented 2D visual designer with agency experience designing integrated 360 campaigns for environmental / experiential for well known brand clients.

In this dynamic long-term contract, you will be an integral part of the hands-on creative team working very closely with the creative leadership, clients and marketing team to ensure that the vision set forth is brought to life on all 2D Graphic Components in a unique and thought provoking way across all mediums (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 a good amount of environmental/large experiential experience and works well in a fast paced creative environment.

This position is a contract remote position but needs to be within the US/east coast preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in leading wayfinding, 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 experience with samples will cater towards the need to be able to juggle multiple high-level graphic components simultaneously.

Qualifications:

• 4+ years agency design and industry 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.