Executive Creative Director

Position Overview:

The Executive Creative Director adeptly manages and inspires team members, direct reports, and clients by demonstrating the capacity to offer, identify, and cultivate strategically creative solutions to meet client needs. The Executive Creative Director leverages both internal and external teams, taking full ownership in crafting and developing budget-conscious strategies that align seamlessly with the high expectations of demanding clients.

Responsibilities:

• Provide unique, creative solutions and big ideas across multiple channels, including environmental designs, for our clients
• Understand each client’s point of view by monitoring business issues, cultural events and trends that affect their audiences/customers
• Develop design visuals including concept, sketching, floor plan/space development, presentation layouts and control drawings
• Develop and mentor design staff
• Understand budgetary restraints and provide recommendations; contribute to the P&L
• Ensure consistency across internal contributors, production teams, graphics, etc.
• Ability to present to and work closely with demanding clients
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in one of the following: architecture, environmental design, retail design, interior design, industrial design, exhibit design or experiential design
• 15 years of experience in event marketing, environmental design, and/or architecture
• Experience in 2D & 3D environments
• Familiarity with Adobe Suite software, 3D Studio Max, V-Ray, ACad or similar CAD software
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Skills:

• Proficient in Google Drive and Microsoft Office
• Strong attention to detail, a positive attitude, and a team player
• Ability to operate within a fast-paced environment

Company Overview:

Sparks is a live digital brand experience agency. We specialize in creating connection–-real human connection–-onsite, online or anywhere. Through a mix of sound strategy, breakthrough creative and flawless execution, we create memorable trade show exhibits, live and virtual events, brand activations, retail stores, corporate environments and other immersive experiences that deepen relationships, inspire action, and build trust-and we do it all over the world.

We operate an open and inclusive culture where all recognize, respect, appreciate and encourage individuality regardless of race, gender, age, religion, culture, ideology, economic status, disability or sexual orientation. We believe that everyone at all levels of our organization is accountable for building this culture and we are challenging ourselves daily to seek and build diversity and equality in any way that we can–and we welcome your ideas to do so.

Think you’ve got what it takes to hang with us?

We’ve built our reputation on creating awesome experiences for our clients, but equally important is the experience we create for our people. Yes, we work hard. But we also make it a point to have fun. And we find our people work that much harder when work doesn’t feel so much like, well, work. If you share our mindset, we should chat.

We’ve always got our eyes peeled for smart, hungry people who think that what we do isn’t so much a job as it is a way of life. And while any company can supply stuff like benefits (and, of course we do too!) our greatest benefit comes from the amazing people you’ll interact with daily, who will challenge and push you to think harder, be more creative and love what you do.

Sparks provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.