Senior Manager, Event Design

Job Description

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

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) with the judgment to know when to design personally vs. delegate
• Ability to design large-scale, high-profile events as well as intimate, detail-driven experiences
• 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

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit, use hands, reach with hands and arms, stoop, talk and hear. Employee must occasionally lift up to twenty (20) pounds. Work environment typical indoor office environment.