About this opportunity
About Empire
Empire is a one of the world’s leading global, full-service, live media, experiential, and event production agencies. Based in New York City and Tokyo, we have over 33 years of experience producing a broad range of creative projects worldwide. We serve clients including corporations and brands, not-for-profits, governments and private individuals. We are proud to fuse the arts & sciences of creative event production to serve clients, create change and produce moments that matter.
As our team continues to grow, we’re seeking an experienced and highly creative Associate Creative Director based in New York to lead concept development, experiential design, and visual storytelling across a diverse portfolio of projects.
About the Role
Empire is seeking to hire a highly-motivated Associate Creative Director to develop overall design, graphics, and scenic elements for live events, virtual platforms, and installation projects across multiple client types and mediums.
In this creative position you will develop overall project creative direction, creating mood boards, concept renderings, designing event décor and collateral, supervising print & scenic fabrication and installation, drafting layouts as well as overseeing vendors onsite.
The ability to create original graphics and experiential designs in a wide range of styles and innovative thinking are critical, as well as experience in event production and video production.
Responsibilities
- Actively participates in and oversees the design, development, and production of environmental graphics
- Creates innovative, creative, and complete design concepts and presents them to clients
- Manages the budget, scope, and schedule for the environmental graphic design portion of projects
- Create and manage client-ready presentation decks featuring design/creative work: mood boards, floor plans, renderings, mockups, graphics, furniture/prop selects, and various other project-related items
- Inspiration/ Conceptual event design renderings: visual depictions of event themes, décor and production concepts
- Create original event signage and collateral including invitations, programs, signage and branded installations, screen graphics, and web design
- Collaborate with producers, other creative team members, as well as with executive leadership
- Manage creative line items in overall event budgets
- Develop set design from mockups and renders to full fabrication
- Collaborating with internal creative team, producers, technical directors and others as well as external creative resources and vendors to maintain creative consistency of vision from concept to execution
Required Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree and 5-7 years professional experience in a creative / experiential agency
- Strong portfolio of creative work featuring executed designs, set designs, and experiential projects
- Competency in scenic fabrication, video production, and understanding of technical production
- Outstanding organizational skills and attention to detail. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
- Ability to take initiative, multi-task, and work in a fast-paced environment
- Must be comfortable and able to excel in an open office workspace
- Should be at ease communicating with clients and senior-level stakeholders
- Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite and Google Workspace, with knowledge of SketchUp and Vectorworks a plus
Empire is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Healthcare stipend will be provided.
Salary range: $80,000-$110,000
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