Creative Director - Event Branding

Job Description:
Role Summary
We are currently hiring for a Creative Director - Event Branding to lead a team of art directors and designers, in the development of creative concepts and ideas for our in-house events team. Our hallmark annual event, Workhuman Live® is one of the most exciting and innovative events in the world of HR, and this role plays a pivotal part in the vision and execution. Additionally, we host forums, digital events, and appear in different tradeshows - all of which will lean on your expertise and direction. This role reports to the Executive Creative Director, and up through the VP of Brand Marketing.
This role is reserved for a hands-on experiential design leader who has a track record of conceiving and creating great creative and visual storytelling, in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment. You will oversee a team of designers and art directors that is responsible for:
Creative Strategy: You'll work together with the event producers and brand storytellers to establish a vision for the various events we host or attend. Most notably, our keynote event: Workhuman Live. This is more than developing design, you are working with the teams to understand the goals of the different departments and establishing an innovative experiential creative strategy that delivers results.
Event Branding & Executional oversight: In this role, you'll be responsible for the establishing and maintaining the look and feel for all aspects of events, from promotions and post-coms to the full design experience. You'll work alongside our brand storytelling team to ensure that our core messaging is paid off by the creative execution. You and the team will roll out look books, templates, CC libraries, photography, and other fundamental assets that can be adopted by internal teams and agency partners. You'll be responsible for reviewing and approving work that is executed, and ensuring it is living up to standards.
Experiential: You'll build partnerships internally (sales, customer success, product, marketing etc.) to ensure that the visual storytelling and experiential activations are delivering on the goals of each. All while leaving our audience informed, inspired and excited to take the experience back to their teams.
Creative Culture: You are an empathetic leader who is candid, caring and kind while knowing how to push teams to deliver smart, beautiful work. And while you like to roll up your sleeves and jump into a concept, you also know when to step back and coach.
Role Requirements
As a designer, you take pride in the crafting experiences that surprise and delight your audiences. You love to travel and have a strong storytelling and design sensibility that you apply to every project. You are able to influence this work in others. Your passion for creative problem-solving helps you bring unique and innovative ideas to the table without sacrificing functionality or consistency. You're constantly seeking new, innovative ideas, best practices and trends that keep our event experiences exciting.
You have managed a design team for a minimum of 5 years, across several projects and initiatives, and demonstrated the ability to build relationships and trust. You have an extensive experiential design & production background and understand what it takes to create an experience that is unforgettable.
You are self-motivated and model the values and behaviors necessary to lead within our organization. Your work ethic as well as people leader skills are considered to one of your most valuable assets in this role.
Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (BA or BFA) in Graphic Design, Illustration or Communications
• 8-10 Years of experience and advancement in the creative industry, with 3-5 years in a principal role, developing and delivering event campaigns and experiences, and leading teams.
• Available for travel domestically and internationally for site visits and onsite oversight where necessary.
• A portfolio of work that highlights your multi-disciplinary creative and functional skills on unique/independent projects such as
• Creating/developing events & tradeshows look and feel/standards
• Promotional campaigns for events
• Onsite experiential design for events and tradeshows.

The Company:
Workhuman® is pioneering the human workplace through award-winning Social Recognition® and Continuous Performance Management solutions. Workhuman inspires more than six million humans across 180 countries to perform the best work of their lives. For the past 21 years, human resources and business leaders alike have used Workhuman Cloud® to gain the proactive insights necessary to transform and lead a more connected, human-centered workplace that accelerates engagement and productivity. To learn more about Workhuman's mission to make work more human for every person on the planet and how you can ensure great work is celebrated and amplified in your workplace, visit www.workhuman.com.
Did you know

• We have more than 6M employees worldwide, on the Workhuman Cloud
• Named The #1 Great Places to Work (GPTW) in Ireland in 2019, and was also named as one of the Best Workplaces for Women. 2020 marks the eighth consecutive year on the list; in 2020, moved to "large company" category and placed #4. Named Great Places to Work in Europe in 2020.
• Named a Boston Globe Top Place to Work in 2020 (mid-size company); 7th year featured on the list; Named a Great Place to Work Certified organization for the past 5 years
• In 2021: Best Workplaces in Tech in Ireland, Best Workplaces in Europe

At Workhuman, we love what we do because we're shaping the future of work through our people and our technology. Our human cloud-based applications are helping some of the world's leading global brands connect culture to shared purpose. The Workhuman Cloud empowers employees to thank, talk and celebrate each other, creating an environment that sparks gratitude and human connection while increasing employee engagement and productivity.
Workhuman is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees. We proudly provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions at Workhuman are based on solely on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Workhuman believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.