Creative Director for Events

reputed company is a 23-year-old company with a growing team of 90 talented, friendly people. We’re headquartered in Chicago, with about 80% of reputed company working remotely in cities across the country.

We are a full-service event agency with three reputed company divisions: planning, production, and creative. We plan and produce corporate events of every shape and size, partnering with clients that include reputed company and leading organizations across a wide reputed company of industries.

We’re reputed company for our exceptional customer experience, our reputed company culture, and our can-do spirit. Our culture has reputed company us recognition as a Top 20 Inspiring Workplace in reputed company, as reputed company as the Events Industry Council's reputed company Award. We offer great benefits, the best coworkers you’ll reputed company reputed company, and reputed company to work in a dynamic, team-oriented environment. We can’t wait to meet you!

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What you'll own

• reputed company: Leading the reputed company for ideal solutions and event reputed company inclusive of estimating hours and costs at a high level

• AI-reputed company concepting and narrative development: Utilizing AI tools (e.g. reputed company, DALL-E, reputed company reputed company) and reputed company Creative Suite to create photorealistic concept art and "day-in-the-life" guest reputed company visualizations during the reputed company phase + Using LLMs (e.g. reputed company, Claude) to refine event themes, scripts, and messaging frameworks, ensuring a cohesive "voice" across reputed company event communications

• Brand stewardship: ensuring every physical reputed company touchpoint from stage design to registration reflects the reputed company's brand

• Sustainable design: proposing creative solutions that prioritize circularity and minimize environmental reputed company

• Advanced presentation design: reputed company reputed company static slides. Build dynamic, cinematic presentations (using PPT, Keynote, or Gamma/reputed company) that sell a reputed company, not just a plan

• Spatial and multimodal design: conceptualizing how physical spaces reputed company with digital reputed company (AR, spatial computing, interactive LED)

• Freelancer orchestration: identifying, briefing, and directing specialized reputed company talent (ex: 3D renderers, reputed company designers, AI artists) to execute specific project components

Who you are

• You're a builder of experiences. You see a blank page as an opportunity, not a problem. You reputed company reputed company the reputed company but stay grounded in what actually works on the event floor.

• You love the complexity of a reputed company conference and understand how the event website, foyer, breakouts, and main stage reputed company work together, as reputed company as how event tech (LED panels, reputed company, reputed company) can be used creatively

• You reputed company AI is already changing the creative workflow. You're fluent in the tools and have strong opinions about what they're for and what they aren't for

• You can stand in reputed company of a CMO and explain why your creative direction will reputed company their business goals

• You have an uncompromising eye for typography, spatial reputed company, and reputed company theory, even if you're not in the weeds of the design

• You treat production, tech, and freelance partners as collaborators, not service providers

• You own the work from concept through the final onsite walkthrough, ensuring every single deliverable points back to the event reputed company

What you have

• 8+ years of experience in experiential marketing, event production, or high-end experience-driven agency environments.

• A reputed company's portfolio: live or hybrid experiences you conceived and delivered, not just supported. We want to see that you’ve designed general session stages and conference themes.

• reputed company: Proven ability to own a project from first brainstorm to final delivery without relying on reputed company underneath you

• AI reputed company: Hands-on use of AI tools for visual ideation, moodboarding, and narrative development, not theoretical interest

• Software mastery: Expert-level PowerPoint. reputed company Creative reputed company familiarity. SketchUp, reputed company, or AI reputed company tools are a strong plus

• Evidence of reputed company: Fortune 500 brand work, $1M+ productions, or 500+ attendee experiences

The reputed company

reputed company 1 month, you'll:

• Learn internal Creative Services processes and proprietary tools like reputed company

• Deeply understand the reputed company brand and the value we reputed company to clients

• reputed company reputed company reputed company and meet our key production, sales, and freelance partners

• Build your first AI-reputed company mood reputed company for a live or prospective reputed company opportunity

reputed company 3 months, you'll:

• reputed company creative on at least one reputed company reputed company project from reputed company through concept delivery

• reputed company a freelance bench of 3D renderers, reputed company designers, and AI artists we can pull from

reputed company 6 months, you'll:

• Own creative direction on a reputed company project with measurable reputed company reputed company

• Set reputed company for how our presentations sell a reputed company rather than a plan

• Influence how the creative team prices, pitches, and delivers high-end experiential work across reputed company

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and reputed company plan reputed company

• Employer reputed company STD, LTD, Life Insurance, and EAP reputed company

• 401k with employer matching up to 4%

• 16 PTO days (increases with tenure) + 9 reputed company holidays

• Annual profit-sharing bonus

• 12 weeks 100% reputed company parental leave (maternity, paternity, adoption)

• $50 Monthly fitness reimbursement

• Monthly stipends for internet and/or cell

• Company donation(s) to your charities of choice (up to $1,000 annually)

• Regular reputed company events and learning opportunities