JOB TITLE: Creative Director, Experiential
POSITION: Full-Time
Applicants for this role must have live event production experience in an agency setting, and be willing/able to work from our office in Santa Monica, CA on a hybrid schedule.
Summary of Position:
The Mirrored Media creative department operates as the agency’s lead for creative ideation, conceptual development, experience architecture, brand storytelling and design.
We are currently seeking a Creative Director to join our team to support creative development and management of new and existing clients and campaigns. The Creative Director will be responsible for spearheading the creative concepting and executional design of campaigns from start to finish. Candidates should have experience working hand-in-hand with producers and external vendors to ensure all ideas and campaign elements are feasible given client goals, timelines and budgets. The ideal candidate for this position will have experience crafting strategic campaigns, developing innovative and first to market ideas and overseeing all multi-platform design elements and teams.
Job Responsibilities:
- Serve as head of agency’s Creative Services department
- Own full creative campaign cycles from RFP to execution to post-mortem
- Develop creative strategies and ideas across all client projects, campaigns, and initiatives
- Accountable for render to reality design execution; working closely with the internal and external teams to ensure all concepts are feasible and executional within budget and timelines
- Generate and communicate ideas, updates, and deliverables across internal teams and clients
- Design and oversee client pitch and project decks; including maintaining agency deck templates
- Visualize brand experiences and guide creative execution across varied mediums
- Build creative teams, oversee creative workflows and drive forward all design deliverables across projects
- Manage and mentor creative department full time employees
- Oversee Creative Services resource planning, including cultivating and managing roster of freelance talent
- Develop and execute agency marketing materials across platforms (website, social, etc)
Requirements:
- Minimum of 6-10 years of creative and multi-platform design leadership experienceÂ
- Minimum of 4 years in an agency setting, managing junior designers and freelance creative roles
- Specified experience developing experiential and event marketing creative
- Strong technical experience with Adobe Creative Suite, 3D and CAD (or similar modeling) softwareÂ
- Deep knowledge and experience working with experiential designers, graphic designers, lighting designers, fabricators, set designers, and staging vendors
- Strong understanding of live event production and physical space, with knowledge of experiential design, scenic design, architecture, or similar
- Experience working on-site during fabrication and installation
- Strong attention to detail and an obsession with brand and cultural trends
- Ability to juggle multiple concurrent projects and tasks, completing work within tight timelines
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and ability to build and maintain relationships with external partners, colleagues, senior management and executives
- Excellent computer skills including Microsoft, Apple and Google applicationsÂ
- Ability to travel domestically and internationallyÂ
- Hybrid in-office (min. 3 days) and remote work schedule, based out of our Santa Monica office; candidate must be based in Los Angeles Metro AreaÂ
- Ability to travel within Southern California for shop visits and on-site install, as needed
- Must be able to work at a computer in an office setting, and remain in a stationary position 50% – 100% of the timeÂ
- Must be able to work nights and weekends occasionally, and travel domestically and internationally as work requires
- Must be able to work on projects onsite; often working outdoors, late hours, constantly walking up and down stairs, and often walking in excess of 20,000 steps per day
About the Company:
Mirrored Media is an award winning experiential & digital marketing firm with a focus on music and entertainment. We create high impact, enduring lifestyle campaigns that help brands connect to their target market through buzz worthy experiences.
Our board includes Steve McBeth, founding President of Disney Interactive; Steve Kofsky, of RCI Global LLC; Hans Zimmer, world renowned film composer. As an award-winning agency, Mirrored Media is consistently recognized as one of the most creative companies that caters to brands, media, influencers, and artists, creating custom tailored marketing solutions. By bridging the gap between music, technology, influencers, art, automotive, and fashion, Mirrored Media has curated some of the most successful and influential experiential activations and campaigns. Ultimately, every client experiences transformational results.
The company culture is light hearted but passionate. As a millennial founded company in a high stress industry, we pride ourselves on our team. You will benefit from a close working relationship and exposure to multiple areas of the business. We are always looking for growth within the company, and we invest in the personal and professional growth of our family.
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