[Hiring] Associate Creative Director, Design Keynotes & Events @Article Group

Role Description

The Associate Creative Director, Design at Article Group leads creative concepting, visual styling, design, and client workshares on assigned design projects, including keynote programs. You will be accountable for:

• Creative problem-solving
• Creative leadership
• Managing project teams of designers, animators, and other cross-disciplinary creatives
• Contributing to client-facing deliverables in a “hands-on” manner

You will drive creative excellence across design-centric workflows and deliverables, with a heavy focus in our keynote business. In close collaboration with cross-functional disciplines within AG, you will:

• Represent Article Group to clients
• Own accountability for creative decisions
• Demonstrate consultative listening to grasp client objectives
• Persuasively present creative concepts
• Adaptively solve problems when incorporating feedback

As a design leader, you will be a trusted resource for designers around the agency, helping them with:

• Challenges around ideation
• Raising their craft
• Applying fit and finish
• Bringing great work with coherent reasoning back to their teams

As a craftsperson, you will:

• Bring your design skills to making and elevating work for clients and the AG brand
• Have a background skewing towards keynote and presentation design, art direction, and visual storytelling
• Directly partner with strategy and engagement leads to identify client problems and plan project-level processes
• Lead the creative effort by example as both a doer and delegator of tasks
• Give concise, actionable feedback to team members of all levels

Ultimately, you are responsible for:

• Crafting and advocating for the integrity of the core creative vision with team members and clients

You will work in a remote environment. Travel for on-site events will be required.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of design experience with at least 3 years in an Associate Creative Director or senior creative leadership role
• A portfolio that specifically showcases keynote and large-scale event presentations
• Experience working onsite at live events in a creative leadership capacity
• Expert-level PowerPoint and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator) proficiency
• Working knowledge of Keynote, Google Slides, and Figma
• Demonstrated experience managing and mentoring designers, motion designers, and other creatives
• Cross-functional collaboration experience, specifically partnering with strategy and account leads

Requirements

• Expert in Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Creative Suite (specifically Photoshop and Illustrator)
• Working knowledge of Keynote, Google Slides, Figma is expected
• Knowledge of After Effects and Media Encoder is nice to have
• Knowledge of AI tools such as Midjourney, Firefly, Runway, Claude, and Gemini is a bonus

Benefits

• Salary range: $115,000–$160,000, determined by experience, expertise, and location
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Meaningful opportunity to help shape the direction of a key part of our business

Company Description

Article Group is committed to providing equal employment opportunities without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.

COVID-19 considerations: We started as a distributed team, and have barely skipped a beat in shifting to 100% remote. When it’s abundantly safe to work in and commute to our offices, we will re-open – but will remain flexible to remote collaboration.