VP, Experiential Design & Live Events

Citi

New York (NY)

Hybrid

USD 130,000 - 195,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision

401(k) Plan

Paid Time Off

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

Citi's Creative and Media Services team in New York is seeking a VP Experiential Designer to craft high-impact presentations, event visuals, and live content for investor days, leadership forums, and firmwide events.

The role partners with production and editorial teams to ensure visuals are brand-consistent, audience-ready, and performance-driven across on-screen and live contexts. A background in graphic design and leadership in fast-paced environments is essential.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Motion Design, Fine Arts, or a similar field.
Significant experience in presentation design, event visual production, or experiential design in a studio, agency, broadcast, or in-house creative environment.
Exceptional proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and/or Google Slides for executive-level presentation design; ability to build sophisticated, brand-compliant decks that communicate with clarity and visual authority.
Must be proficient in various multimedia and design technologies across the Adobe Creative Suite.
Demonstrated experience designing visual systems for live events, including stage graphics, environmental displays, and digital signage at scale.
Deep understanding of how design functions differently in a live, high-stakes context — including technical constraints, timing, and audience sight lines.
Experience working within established brand systems and applying global visual identity standards consistently across presentation and event formats.
Ability to manage multiple high-priority design projects simultaneously, with a calm and organized approach under deadline pressure.
Experience and an active interest in AI-assisted design tools and emerging presentation and event technology platforms.
Strong collaborative instincts and the ability to receive, integrate, and push back on creative direction in equal measure.
Excellent communicator with the ability to present design thinking clearly to senior stakeholders and non-creative partners.
Operates efficiently in a very fast-paced and deadline-driven environment.
Integrity, maturity, dependability, and a positive professional attitude.
Excellent organizational and project management skills.
Experience or demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team-based environment within a heavily matrixed organization.
Track record of success in delivering high-quality work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

Design and produce high-quality presentations for senior leadership, executive communications, investor events, client forums, and firmwide moments — translating complex information into clear, compelling visual narratives.
Develop event visuals and live experience content including stage graphics, motion elements, digital signage, environmental displays, and run-of-show supporting materials for key communications events.
Partner closely with the VP, Lead Designer, and SVP, Creative Lead to ensure visual design is fully integrated into the creative and production approach for each event or experience.
Collaborate with Communications colleagues across business lines and functions to understand event objectives, audience expectations, and key messages — and translate those into effective visual design solutions.
Maintain and evolve a suite of branded presentation templates, event graphic systems, and reusable visual assets that can be deployed efficiently across productions.
Ensure all experiential design deliverables meet Citi's brand guidelines, accessibility standards, and technical specifications for the relevant presentation or event platform.
Manage multiple concurrent design workstreams across live events, presentation projects, and event content development, communicating proactively with the Production Coordinator on timelines and priorities.
Advise on emerging tools, platforms, and design approaches for presentation and live event content — including AI-assisted design tools — that can improve quality, efficiency, or creative impact.
Support post-event asset adaptation, ensuring key visual elements are versioned and archived for future use across channels.
Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.