Creative Director, Interactive Experiences
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Gigantic PlaygroundInteractive experiences
While we work with freelancers throughout the USA, we prioritize candidates based in the following locations: Austin, TX; Bentonville, AR; Chicago, IL; Cincinnati, OH; Dallas, TX; Los Angeles, CA; Minneapolis, MN; Orlando, FL; Seattle, WA; San Diego, CA., Time Zone - PacificContractDirector
Salary85 - 115 USD per hour
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years or more in a creative role focused on interactive, digital, or experience design, including several years directly managing a team
- Required Skills
- Figma
Requirements
- Bring 10+ years of experience in a creative role focused on interactive, digital, or experience design.
- Have several years of direct team-management experience.
- Provide a portfolio showing range across interaction design, visual design, and concept development.
- Have direct experience partnering with enterprise or consumer technology clients and navigating multiple stakeholders.
- Be willing to work hands-on with creative tools, including Figma files.
- Understand current hardware and software capabilities so concepts are ambitious but buildable.
- Have current experience using AI tools as part of your own creative process.
- Be comfortable working from early concept sketches through rapid prototyping to finished, fabricated, on-site experiences.
- Be familiar with AR, VR, projection, and sensor-driven installations.
- Preferred: Have a portfolio piece that demonstrably increased engagement time.
- Preferred: Have peer or industry press recognition for work you led.
- Preferred: Have experience in large-scale experiential production.
Responsibilities
- Define creative concepts for interactive projects based on client briefs and emerging technology.
- Stay involved through production to ensure finished work reflects the original creative direction.
- Set and maintain quality standards for design, motion, and interaction across studio projects.
- Manage and develop designers, creative technologists, and producers through direction and mentorship.
- Serve as the primary creative contact for client teams, balancing business goals with compelling experiences.
- Pitch ideas and present completed work to clients.
- Monitor new interactive formats, hardware, and platforms, and recommend opportunities to clients.
- Introduce AI-assisted tools into concepting, prototyping, or content production when useful.
- Oversee spatial and environmental design alongside interactive content.
- Work with production, fabrication, and technology partners to ensure concepts can be built, staffed, and maintained on-site.
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