CREATIVE DIRECTOR EXPERIENTIAL EVENTS

Overview

RED VELVET is a boutique full-service experiential activations and events agency based in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2002, we specialize in creating award-winning experiences for brands and companies, ranging from immersive activations to conferences.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the agency's creative north star; generating bold, culture-creating concepts and driving them end-to-end on complex projects.
• Inspire, mentor, and elevate a multidisciplinary design team across 3D and graphic design disciplines, with clear accountability.
• Confidently articulate and pitch complex experiences in compelling formats so clients can easily see the vision.
• Fiercely protect and accurately represent the client's brand identity through every stage of execution.
• Partner with production to ensure creative ideas are fiscally responsible and respectful of client budgets.
• Guide the design team in developing clear, impactful 3D renderings and spatial designs that sell the vision.
• Act as a bridge-builder across Accounts, Production, and Operations, aligning design with logistics.
• Establish structured creative workflows that keep projects moving effectively without overcomplicating them.
• Direct the creative team onsite and support production leads to ensure the creative vision is flawlessly realized.

What We Need From You

• 15+ years directing high-impact, large-scale experiential work, with real creative leadership experience (not just senior design experience).
• Hands-on fluency in SketchUp, Rhino, or comparable 3D/spatial design tools.
• A strong point of view and the spine to hold it. You push the work (and the people around you) toward bolder and better.
• The range to move between big-picture vision and the precise detail that protects it, across multiple concurrent projects.
• A clear, confident, trusted, and commanding presence in high-stakes client rooms.
• A collaborative leadership style that builds bridges rather than working in a creative silo, with the ownership and follow-through to run with minimal oversight.
• Curious, proactive problem-solving: you ask the right questions, anticipate challenges, and thrive under pressure or ambiguity.
• Comfort with structured workflow tools (monday.com, Slack, Harvest, Google Workspace) without needing process to replace creative instinct.

Logistics

Austin-based role. Some travel will be required, dependent on client project locations.

Ready to Move Forward?

If you feel like you've got what it takes, please apply. Our interview process starts with an initial virtual screening, followed by interviews with key team members to discuss experience, creative philosophy, and fit. No phone calls regarding this posting, please.

Referral Bonus!

We know that the best hire is someone you enjoy working with and is a great culture fit for our fast-paced, entrepreneur-friendly, and creative environment. If you know someone who has previous experience in the agency/experiential marketing and/or meeting planning industry, we want to meet them.

Benefits

• Competitive health plan, with premiums for employees covered and premiums for family members subsidized by RED VELVET
• Monthly HSA Contribution
• Complimentary financial/retirement planning assistance
• 401(k) Plan with Matching Contribution
• Paid Membership to Industry Associations and Monthly Meetings
• Monthly Cell Phone and Fuel Stipends
• Flexible Vacation Policy and Paid Holidays

Red Velvet

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