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Vox Media is seeking an Experiential Design Lead to oversee the visual identity and creative direction of live events, activations, and editorial franchises. This role bridges spatial design and graphic design, translating brand identity and editorial voice into immersive physical environments.
You will lead creative direction across editorial tentpoles, recurring franchises, subscriber experiences, custom client activations, and B2B events. Responsibilities include developing cohesive spatial and graphic design systems from concept through execution, creating immersive environments that balance architecture, materials, typography, graphics, and storytelling. You'll partner closely with editorial, marketing, and production teams to extend brand identity into physical spaces while maintaining strong visual storytelling across every guest touchpoint.
Key duties include interpreting sponsor and partner brand identities to create integrated event experiences, developing creative concepts and mood boards through renderings and presentation materials, collaborating with producers and fabricators to ensure designs are buildable and on-budget, and overseeing fabrication, print production, and on-site installation. You will direct freelance designers, illustrators, fabricators, and production partners as needed across multiple concurrent projects, maintain and evolve experiential brand standards, and present creative concepts to internal stakeholders and clients.
Required qualifications include 6+ years in art direction, experiential design, environmental design, or related creative disciplines. You must demonstrate excellence across both spatial/environmental and graphic/print design with a strong portfolio of integrated brand experiences. Strong understanding of environmental graphics, signage, print production, typography, and branded physical experiences is essential. Experience with fabrication vendors, printers, and production partners is required, along with proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and Google Suite. You should have impeccable design taste, strong creative judgment, excellent communication skills, and familiarity with Vox Media's brands. Nice-to-have skills include experience with 3D visualization software and managing print production and environmental fabrication across multiple projects.
