Creative Designer - Creative Group

Your Destination

This position is a REMOTE position.

Your Expedition (position overview)

The Creative Designer is responsible for creating immersive, personalized, and strategically aligned experiences that bring client objectives to life. This role translates business goals into compelling attendee journeys that engage all senses and foster meaningful connections. The Creative Designer leverages design thinking, storytelling, and emerging technologies to craft innovative solutions that differentiate Creative Group’s offerings and deliver measurable impact.

Working collaboratively with business development, sourcing, suppliers, and internal teams, the Creative Designer ensures that every program reflects the client’s “why” and brand purpose. This position plays a critical role in developing visual narratives, curating destinations and experiences, integrating AI and experiential technology, and aligning design with budget and client KPIs. The Creative Designer is a key contributor to proposal development and a champion of continuous improvement, staying ahead of industry trends to elevate Creative Group’s reputation for creativity, innovation, and customer-centricity.

Going the Extra Mile (Responsibilities)

Designing Immersive and Personalized Attendee Experiences

• Create compelling visual narratives (mood boards, PPT and other proposal technologies) to communicate event concepts and ensure design consistency.
• Develop holistic attendee journey maps (pre, onsite and post), implement multi-sensory engagement, and leverage data and technology for personalized experiences.
• Translate client goals into cohesive visual experiences.
• Help define KPIs related to event design, engagement, and emotional impact on attendees.
• Recommend trends, ideas, and concepts to improve performance in future experiences.

Strategic Destination & Experience Curation

• Design events with unique, culturally relevant, and emotionally resonant purpose tied to the clients “why”.
• Collaborate with partners (DMCs, Hotels, Fabricators, Decorators, and others) to create customized designs based on business brand, objectives and audience.
• Attend client pre-sale site inspections, FAMs and participate in program execution to gain firsthand destination and client experience.
• Develop innovative solutions to activate business brand and objectives.

Collaborating with Sales and Suppliers

• Partner with Business Development on design strategy including presenting concepts to client.
• Build and expand strategic partnerships to optimize innovative design.
• Effectively lead communication and ideation with partners to design, cost and deliver holistic client experiences.
• Act as budget advisor and fiduciary partner in collaboration with Sourcing Manager to develop a budget that maximizes spend while ensuring alignment with client objectives and incorporating opportunities to innovate.

Driving Continuous Improvement

• Conduct audience analysis, map emotional touchpoints, and use data to refine future event strategies and contribute to the i|Lab.
• Stay ahead of design, tech, travel, and experiential marketing trends, infusing them into concepts.
• Integrate technology (AI, AR, VR) into process and experiences to enhance engagement.

Contributing to Proposal Development

• Collaborate on proposal deck creation, including capabilities, value story and responding to RFPs requiring creative design.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Your Passport to Success (Qualifications)

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Event Design, Marketing, Communications, Hospitality, Fine Arts, or related field. Equivalent combination of education and relevant experience will be considered.
• Experience: 5–7 years of experience in event design, experiential marketing, creative strategy, or visual design and related roles with proven success designing attendee-centered experiences. Demonstrated expertise in creating attendee journey maps and multi-sensory engagement strategies.
• Creative Skills: Proficiency in developing visual narratives (