Associate Creative Director, Partnerships & Fan Experiences

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

Job summary

Aquent Studios is seeking an Associate Creative Director with Partnership experience to lead ideas, experiences, and fan moments that bring global sports partnerships to life. You’ll work with the Creative Director, agency partners, and cross-functional teams to turn partnerships into culturally resonant work that fans care about.

The ideal candidate is a highly creative, conceptual thinker who can push ideas further, across storytelling, experience design, and presentation, driving innovative

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

• Create and develop ideas that bring Snapdragon's sports partnerships to life in memorable and unexpected ways
• Bring fresh creative thinking and cultural awareness to every stage of development
• Push work beyond the expected, challenging teams to explore new directions and stronger creative solutions
• Find new ways to make ideas bigger, more relevant, and more exciting for fans
• Help develop experiences, events, content programs, hospitality concepts, and social extensions that extend partnership platforms beyond traditional sponsorship
• Collaborate with agencies, rights holders, internal teams, and experience partners to build fan experiences, brand moments, and activation programs
• Build compelling presentations, concept boards, and creative materials that help ideas come to life for internal and external audiences
• Bring ideas to life through storytelling, experience design, and visual thinking
• Stay connected to sports, entertainment, culture, technology, and emerging trends to inspire new ideas and opportunities
• Bring an authentic, culturally fluent point of view to how Snapdragon shows up in partnership moments
• Partner closely with the Creative Director on creative direction and partnership strategy
• Collaborate with strategists, marketers, agencies, designers, producers, and partners throughout the creative process
• Take ideas from concept through production, partnering across creative and production teams to deliver high-quality final work

Skills

Advertising

Conceptual thinking

End-to-end production

Storytelling

Big-picture thinking

Collaboration

Job description

Aquent Studios is seeking an Associate Creative Director with Partnership experience to lead ideas, experiences, and fan moments that bring global sports partnerships to life. You’ll work with the Creative Director, agency partners, and cross-functional teams to turn partnerships into culturally resonant work that fans care about.

The ideal candidate is a highly creative, conceptual thinker who can push ideas further, across storytelling, experience design, and presentation, driving innovative