Senior Creative Director

INVNT is a global experiential marketing and brand storytelling agency that specializes in live events, digital experiences, and integrated campaigns that drive audience engagement and brand growth. Our team of creative strategists, producers, and innovators helps Fortune 500 companies, cultural icons, and purpose-driven organizations bring their brand stories to life. From immersive brand activations and product launches to virtual summits and content-rich campaigns, we create meaningful experiences that resonate across every channel.

With a proven track record in innovation, strategy, and execution, INVNT blends creativity with results to help brands break through noise, connect with audiences, and leave lasting impressions worldwide.

As a Senior Creative Director at INVNT, you'll lead the creative thinking behind some of our largest programs and biggest opportunities, from the first pitch through show day. You'll find the central idea, build the story around it and guide how it comes to life across stage, screen, space and the audience experience.

You'll lead flagship conferences, sales kickoffs and the keynotes at their center, shaping what executives say and show on stage. You'll bring the same creative ambition to environments, activations and the moments that connect the entire experience.

Whether your background is in writing or art direction, you're at home in keynotes, large-room general sessions, and high-end experiential activations. You are a hands-on creative thinker. You partner closely with Producers, Account leads and Strategy, mentor Creative Directors and Writers, and lead major pitches from the initial brief through presentation.

You will report directly to the Vice President of Creative. Position is a hybrid role and does require 2-3 days in the NYC office.

Salary is $175,000-$230,000

What you'll do:

Creative Leadership

• Lead the creative vision on major programs from brief through show day and post-event, partnering closely with Producers and Account teams
• Turn client objectives, audience insight and complex business messaging into a clear central idea and compelling story
• Carry that idea across keynotes, video, environments, digital content and the attendee experience, including arrivals, activations, transitions and social moments
• Generate original ideas yourself while guiding teams toward the strongest creative solution. Bring proactive thinking that challenges expectations
• Lead multiple high-profile projects, shaping creative scopes and staffing plans that align ambition with budgets and deadlines

Keynote / General Session & Experiential Creative

• Lead narrative, show flow, stage and screen design, and speaker messaging for keynotes and general sessions.
• Concept and oversee the design and build of high-end, polished, engaging, brand-relevant experiental creative concepts
• Work directly with senior executives on story and presentation development, and coach them through rehearsals
• Partner with Technical Directors, Production, Scenic and Content teams on sightlines, screen layouts and run of show
• Lead creative onsite through rehearsals and show, solving problems in real time

New Business and Pitch Development

• Lead major pitches and RFPs, 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
  • Be an all-star presenter! Command a room (or a Zoom! Or a recording of a Zoom!!!)
• Find creative direction when briefs are incomplete, messages are complex or client needs are still taking shape
• Read the room: lead, support another presenter, redirect a conversation or defend the work

Team and Craft

• Lead and mentor Creative Directors, Writers and emerging talent with clear feedback and high standards
• Collaborate with Design, Motion and Scenic teams and INVNT offices around the world
• Know when an idea needs another round and when it is ready. Make decisions that protect the ambition and keep work moving
• Understand how creative decisions affect staffing, production and account services

Who You Are:

• 10+ years of creative experience in live events, experiential or brand communications, including several years leading large-scale events or keynotes.
• A proven ability to make complex B2B subjects human, clear and creatively engaging, with experience in categories such as technology, pharma and healthcare, automotive, financial services or professional associations.
• 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.
  • Proficient in creating consistency and brand-relevant work across AI tools without a degradation in quality (no slop cannons!)
• Confidence in your work, openness to feedback and steady, positive energy under pressure.

What Success Looks Like:

Within your first six months:

• Clients and Account teams trust you to lead their biggest programs.
• You've led at least one major keynote or flagship event and multiple new-business pitch
• Creative Directors and Writers on your projects are growing under your direction
• Producers and Resourcing trust your creative scopes and staffing plans

INVNT is an equal opportunity employer committed to equal consideration for all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.