Group Creative Director, Experiential Design

CNC Agency; United States; On-site; USD 210,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

CNC Agency is seeking a Group Creative Director to lead the creative vision for a client portfolio. This hands-on leadership role requires shaping concepts, mentoring teams, presenting to clients, and ensuring delivery reflects quality and craft.

You will guide multidisciplinary teams from strategic concept through final installation, balancing creative ambition with timelines and budgets, and partnering with Strategy, Production, Account, and Creative Leadership to deliver memorable experiences.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of creative leadership experience within an experiential marketing, brand experience, environmental design, retail, or integrated agency environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creative vision across a portfolio of 4-10 concurrent experiential programs, ensuring every project delivers exceptional creative quality, strategic thinking, and design excellence.
• Develop breakthrough experiential concepts, creative territories, experience platforms, and strategic narratives that connect brands with audiences in meaningful ways.
• Translate business objectives, audience insights, and cultural trends into innovative experiential opportunities.
• Partner closely with Strategy, Creative Directors, and Design Directors during the earliest stages of development to shape concepts, define creative direction, and establish strong strategic foundations before execution begins.
• Lead ideation sessions, workshops, and creative reviews that inspire multidisciplinary teams and elevate the quality of the work.
• Maintain continuous creative oversight throughout every phase of development, ensuring concepts evolve without losing their original vision or creative integrity.
• Review creative work daily across presentations, environments, campaigns, content, copy, design systems, motion, and experiential executions, providing clear, actionable feedback that strengthens both the work and the team.
• Champion excellence across every aspect of the experience, ensuring every creative decision from the overarching concept to the smallest executional detail contributes to a cohesive, memorable, and beautifully crafted final product.
• Exercise exceptional creative judgment and taste, refining work at both the conceptual and executional level, including typography, layout, color, copy, storytelling, visual hierarchy, pacing, and overall design quality.
• Build compelling creative presentations and confidently present ideas, creative rationale, and strategic thinking to senior clients and stakeholders, serving as the senior creative voice across the account.
• Establish and maintain a consistent creative standard across multidisciplinary teams, including full-time and freelance Creative Directors, Design Directors, Art Directors, Designers, and Copywriters.
• Direct the day-to-day creative output of the team by providing consistent mentorship, feedback, creative problem-solving, and hands-on guidance throughout every project.
• Jump into projects whenever additional creative leadership is needed, helping unblock teams, strengthen ideas, refine execution, and elevate work regardless of project stage.
• Serve as a trusted creative partner to clients, helping shape future opportunities through strategic thinking, creative leadership, and collaborative problem-solving.
• Partner closely with Strategy, Production, and Account teams to balance creative ambition with business objectives, timelines, budgets, and technical feasibility.
• Identify creative opportunities, risks, and solutions throughout every phase of development.
• Remain actively engaged through production, fabrication, installation, and launch to ensure the final experience reflects the intended creative vision.
• Participate in post-project reviews to capture learnings and continuously elevate the agency's creative standards.
• Foster a collaborative culture built on curiosity, craftsmanship, experimentation, and continuous creative growth.
• Help shape the agency's creative culture, processes, talent development, and standards of creative excellence.

Skills

Creative leadership

Multidisciplinary teams

Executive presentations

Mentoring talent

Brand experience

Job description

CNC Agency is seeking a Group Creative Director to lead the creative vision for a client portfolio. This hands-on leadership role requires shaping concepts, mentoring teams, presenting to clients, and ensuring delivery reflects quality and craft.

You will guide multidisciplinary teams from strategic concept through final installation, balancing creative ambition with timelines and budgets, and partnering with Strategy, Production, Account, and Creative Leadership to deliver memorable experiences.