Senior Design Manager, Events

Job Description

The Senior Design Manager, Events is a strategic creative leader responsible for envisioning and delivering bold, world-class event experiences across McDermott's portfolio.

Reporting into the Creative Director, this role owns the creative vision end-to-end, ensuring every touchpoint – from first invitation through on-site immersion and post-event moments – feels cohesive, elevated, and unmistakably McDermott.

This role calls for a confident creative lead who can articulate and defend strategic ideas with clarity, and balances conceptual ambition with operational rigor to turn complex, abstract ideas into bold, memorable experiences across digital, environmental, and physical channels.

Essential Functions And Responsibilities

• Partner closely with the Creative Director to push creative boundaries while ensuring consistency, clarity, and sophistication across all event executions.

• Help drive the creative vision for McDermott events, developing overarching concepts and narratives that unify digital, environmental, and experiential elements into a seamless attendee journey.

• Design immersive, ownable experiences that transform venues into branded environments aligned with McDermott’s brand standards, business priorities, and audience expectations.

• Translate high-level themes and messaging into scalable creative systems that work across event sizes, formats, and geographies.

• Oversee the design of digital event assets, including email campaigns, event registration websites, and social graphics, ensuring cohesion across all pre-event marketing channels.

• Lead the design and execution of on-site creative applications, including environmental branding, signage, stage graphics, wayfinding, experiential moments, and printed collateral.

• Own the creative workstream for assigned events, leading creative status calls, managing timelines and workflows, and serving as the primary creative point of contact for stakeholders.

• Brief, guide, and review work from internal designers and external vendors, providing clear direction and managing partners to ensure design intent is executed at the highest level, on time and on budget.

Job Specifications

• Bachelor’s degree

• At least ten (10) years of experience in event design, experiential marketing, brand environments, or integrated creative roles, with leadership responsibility

• Hands-on expertise in design tools (Adobe Creative Suite; Figma or similar preferred)

• Strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, spatial/environmental design, and integrated digital and physical executions

• Deep understanding of how creative strategy supports business objectives and audience engagement

• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to articulate ideas clearly and persuasively to senior stakeholders

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word)

Target Hiring Range

$145,000 – $194,000

Physical Demands And Work Environment

• Sit, use hands, reach with hands and arms, stoop, talk and hear
• Occasionally lift up to twenty (20) pounds
• Typical indoor office environment

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