Senior Art Director – Creative Experiential Agency / High Profile Automotive
Job Type: Full-Time
Salary Type: Annual Salary
Salary: $180,000-$220,000/year, commensurate with experience
Work Location: Remote, United States
Travel: Occasional project and event travel required
Overview
We’re working with an established creative agency who are looking for a Senior Art Director to lead the development of immersive brand experiences, campaigns and activations for a high-profile automotive brand.
The agency brings together strategy, creative, design and production to create thoughtful, culturally relevant experiences for leading global brands. Their work spans live events, experiential campaigns, sponsorship activations and integrated physical and digital environments, with a strong emphasis on storytelling, design craft and audience engagement.
This is a conceptual and design-forward role for someone who can generate bold ideas, establish a clear creative vision and translate that thinking into beautifully executed visual narratives. You’ll be equally comfortable leading early-stage ideation, shaping the visual language of a project and getting hands-on with presentations, layouts and design development.
You’ll work closely with creative, strategy, production, design and account teams, helping connect disciplines and ensure ideas remain cohesive from the initial concept through to final delivery. You’ll also play an important client-facing role, presenting work, articulating creative thinking and building confidence in the direction being proposed.
The right person will combine elevated visual taste with practical experiential understanding. You’ll know how to create ideas that feel exciting and original while remaining grounded in the realities of physical environments, live production and brand objectives.
What You’ll Do
- Lead creative ideation and concept development for immersive brand experiences, campaigns, events and activations.
- Develop bold creative territories that respond to the brief, audience, cultural context and wider brand strategy.
- Translate early-stage ideas into cohesive visual narratives across concept decks, pitches and experiential environments.
- Establish mood boards, visual languages and design principles that guide projects from concept through execution.
- Own the design, structure and visual polish of creative presentations, ensuring ideas are communicated clearly and persuasively.
- Remain hands-on throughout the creative process, contributing directly to layouts, design development and presentation materials.
- Work closely with copywriters, strategists, producers, spatial designers and account teams to develop integrated creative solutions.
- Present creative work confidently to senior clients, clearly explaining the thinking behind ideas and responding constructively to feedback.
- Provide creative direction and thoughtful feedback to designers, freelancers and more junior members of the team.
- Oversee the creative quality of projects from initial brief through to final delivery, maintaining consistency across every touchpoint.
- Balance ambitious creative thinking with commercial objectives, timelines, production requirements and real-world feasibility.
- Help foster a supportive, collaborative and inclusive creative culture within the wider team.
What You’ll Bring
- Approximately 6-8+ years of experience within an experiential, advertising, branding or integrated creative agency environment.
- A portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual thinking, elevated visual design and the ability to build compelling creative narratives.
- Experience developing creative work for live events, activations, physical environments or integrated brand experiences.
- A strong understanding of how ideas translate from presentations into real-world spaces and audience experiences.
- Proven experience creating and presenting polished concept decks to internal stakeholders and clients.
- Excellent design craft, with strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite and presentation design tools.
- The ability to establish a high-level creative vision while remaining comfortable working directly within the design.
- Confidence presenting ideas, explaining creative decisions and building trusted relationships with clients.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across creative, strategy, production and account disciplines.
- Experience directing and mentoring designers or freelance creative teams.
- The ability to thrive within a fast-moving, deadline-driven agency environment while maintaining a consistently high standard of work.
- An enthusiastic, collaborative and considerate approach, with a genuine interest in contributing to a positive team culture.
We are passionate about promoting diversity, inclusion and equality, and are committed to working with clients who share our outlook. We offer equal opportunities to all candidates regardless of background, identity, sexuality or disability. We strive to create inclusive cultures where diversity is recognised as genuine value, and where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic self at work.
