Associate Creative Director, Partnerships and Experiences

Aquent (United States); San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Aquent Studios in San Diego seeks an Associate Creative Director with partnership experience to lead ideas, experiences, and fan moments for global sports partnerships. Working with the Creative Director, agency partners, and cross-functional teams, you will push ideas to be more relevant and culturally fluent.

The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking with hands-on creation, turning partnerships like Manchester United and Mercedes‑AMG PETRONAS into compelling fan experiences.

Qualifications

• Experience in advertising, experiential marketing, brand experience, partnerships, or integrated campaigns.
• A strong conceptual thinker with a portfolio full of original ideas and standout creative work.
• Experience taking ideas from concept through production, partnering across creative and production teams.
• Ability to bring ideas to life through storytelling, experience design, presentations, creative development, and visual thinking.
• Comfort moving between big‑picture thinking and hands‑on creative problem solving.
• Strong collaboration skills, with experience working alongside strategists, marketers, agencies, designers, producers, and partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead creative development and ideation for sports partnerships and experiences.
• Develop experiences, events, content programs, hospitality concepts, and social extensions.
• Create compelling presentations, concept boards, and materials to communicate ideas.
• Stay connected to sports, entertainment, culture, technology, and trends to inspire new ideas.
• Collaborate with Creative Director, strategists, marketers, agencies, designers, and partners throughout the process.

Skills

Advertising experience

Experiential marketing

Brand experience

Partnerships

Conceptual thinking

Job description

Aquent Studios in San Diego seeks an Associate Creative Director with partnership experience to lead ideas, experiences, and fan moments for global sports partnerships. Working with the Creative Director, agency partners, and cross-functional teams, you will push ideas to be more relevant and culturally fluent.

The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking with hands-on creation, turning partnerships like Manchester United and Mercedes‑AMG PETRONAS into compelling fan experiences.