Senior Creative Director, INVNT Digital

Nth Degree•New York, NY

20h•$175,000 - $230,000•Hybrid

About The Position

INVNT is a global experiential marketing and brand storytelling agency specializing in live events, digital experiences, and integrated campaigns. The Senior Creative Director leads creative thinking for major programs and opportunities, from initial pitch through show day and post-event. The role develops the central idea and story, then guides how it comes to life across stage, screen, space, digital content, and the audience experience. The position leads flagship conferences, sales kickoffs, keynotes, general sessions, environments, activations, and other experiential work. It works closely with Producers, Account leads, Strategy, Design, Motion, Scenic, Technical Directors, Production, and Content teams. The Senior Creative Director also works directly with senior executives on presentation development and rehearsal coaching, leads major pitches and RFPs, and mentors Creative Directors, Writers, and emerging talent. This is a hybrid position requiring 2–3 days in the NYC office. The role reports directly to the Vice President of Creative. Salary is $175,000–$230,000.

Requirements

10+ years of creative experience in live events, experiential, or brand communications, including several years leading large-scale events or keynotes.
Proven ability to make complex B2B subjects human, clear, and creatively engaging.
Experience developing stage content with senior executives and coaching them for the keynote stage.
Excellent presentation skills and a track record of constructing and selling compelling creative pitches to senior clients.
Proven experience leading and developing creative teams, with the ability to contribute hands-on writing or art direction at a high level.
Fluency in video, motion, staging, and environmental design, and how they come together in a live show.
Comfort with ambiguity, competing priorities, travel, and onsite show work.
Curiosity about emerging creative tools and technologies, including AI, and judgment about when they meaningfully improve the work.
Proficiency in creating consistent, brand-relevant work across AI tools without degradation in quality.
Confidence in one's work, openness to feedback, and steady, positive energy under pressure.

Nice To Haves

Experience in categories such as technology, pharma and healthcare, automotive, financial services, or professional associations.

Responsibilities

Lead the creative vision for major programs from brief through show day and post-event, partnering with Producers and Account teams.
Translate client objectives, audience insight, and complex business messaging into a clear central idea and compelling story.
Carry the central idea across keynotes, video, environments, digital content, and the attendee experience, including arrivals, activations, transitions, and social moments.
Generate original ideas and guide teams toward strong creative solutions that challenge expectations.
Lead multiple high-profile projects and shape creative scopes and staffing plans that align ambition with budgets and deadlines.
Lead narrative, show flow, stage and screen design, and speaker messaging for keynotes and general sessions.
Concept and oversee high-end, polished, engaging, brand-relevant experiential creative concepts.
Develop stories and presentations with senior executives and coach them through rehearsals.
Partner with Technical Directors, Production, Scenic, and Content teams on sightlines, screen layouts, and run of show.
Lead creative work onsite through rehearsals and show, solving problems in real time.
Lead major pitches and RFPs by developing creative territories, event concepts, narratives, visual worlds, and audience experiences.
Build persuasive presentations that frame the challenge, reveal the idea, and sell the thinking.
Adapt to incomplete briefs, complex messages, and evolving client needs; lead, support, redirect, or defend work as appropriate.
Lead and mentor Creative Directors, Writers, and emerging talent through clear feedback and high standards.
Collaborate with Design, Motion, and Scenic teams and INVNT offices around the world.
Make decisions about when ideas need further development and when they are ready, protecting ambition while keeping work moving.
Understand how creative decisions affect staffing, production, and account services.
Use emerging creative tools and technologies, including AI, with judgment about when they meaningfully improve the work.
Within the first six months, lead at least one major keynote or flagship event and multiple new-business pitches, build trust with clients and Account teams, support creative team growth, and earn Producers' and Resourcing's trust in creative scopes and staffing plans.