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Senior Creative Director - Art (Contract)

San Francisco, California, United States

Leave Coverage - October 1, 2025 to April 1, 2026 - Up to 30 hours/week for 5 days/week 

Senior Creative Director (Contract) - Experiential and Tech 

As a temporary Senior Creative Director at Jack, you are accountable for creating and developing original and innovative experiences for one of our premiere tech client portfolios. Serving as the temporary team creative lead, you will track all incoming projects and pitches for the account and maintain creative excellence across a range of programs, while also leading and managing select pitches and projects.

Your Book showcases event marketing and B2B conference experience for major tech clients and/or Fortune 100 brands – from keynotes and stage design, to summits and offsite, to exhibits and demos – we want to see a deep understanding and passion for creating smart, business-savvy experiences. B2C samples and experience is a plus.

Day to day, you will dig-in to the work and participate in the generation and unpacking of ideas, platforms, and campaigns to drive forward programs with excellence. As Senior Creative Director, you will oversee key creative talent and inspire them to deliver awesome work with a keen focus on concept, design, and craft.

What you’ll be doing…

Creative Leadership

  • Oversee and direct key creatives and freelancers on a project basis.
    • Conduct regular checkins with full-time and permalance talent to ensure key programs are on track. Elevate the creative work wherever possible.
    • Critique the work of other creatives to yield stronger, more valuable solutions that always meet the brief and suit the brand.
  • Get your hands dirty when it’s required. We’re all doers, not just directors.
    • Own key projects and pitches. Lead by example in delivering best-in-class creative work.
    • Help articulate the value of our work to our clients using the quality of your thinking, presentation skills, relationship-building abilities and passion for their brands/products.
  • Understand and support account leadership.
    • Collaborate with experts in account, production, strategy, and technical teams to understand the context of this account and ensure priorities are clear.
    • Have an understanding of agency processes. Contribute to creative resourcing, staffing, and onboarding on a weekly basis to ensure new programs are set up for success.
    • Learn the nuances of the client's brand and quickly become an expert on the tone, design preferences, and requirements across various projects.
  • Bring creative passion to the account and the team, consistently encouraging creative thinking and fruitful collaboration. Foster a culture that is conducive to creative development by making creative collaborations a “safe” place where all participants are heard and respected, resulting in superior creative solutions.

Creative Ideas

  • Work collaboratively with the strategy team to uncover fresh insights and define strategic approaches to solving our clients’ problems. Take those insights and strategic approaches and turn them into big ideas.
  • Guide a wider network of creative, design, technology, and production talent to bring ideas to life in the form of powerful creative expression and fresh, inventive experiences. Be comfortable and excited about bringing ideas to life across a diverse array of projects (from big budgets to small, and from traditional experiential to campaign or content based work).
  • Pitch our clients and win them over with business-driven innovative ideas that have measurable results.

Creative Execution & Production

  • Work closely with the creative and execution experts (account directors, producers, technologists, vendors, strategists, designers) to ensure your ideas remain as powerful as they were when pitched.
  • Remain involved in production as the project progresses to ensure creative integrity. Be an ongoing creative resource and problem solver for the team.
  • Own specific creative execution elements when and where appropriate (design elements, sourcing, etc).

What you will bring to Jack:

  • Experience and willingness to execute both concepting and hands on design 
  • 10+ years leading creative work in a project-based experiential agency of experience creating and executing events for brands.
  • Strong design background with understanding of 2d, 3d, and digital workflows and software typical to experiential design work.
  • Event marketing and B2B conference experience for major tech clients and/or Fortune 100 brands – from keynotes and stage design, to summits and offsite, to exhibits and demos – we want to see a deep understanding and passion for creating smart, business-savvy experiences. B2C samples and experience is a plus.
  • Proven success leading teams and fostering creative culture at an experiential agency.
  • Experience with pushing project management processes and tools that keep creative on track (timelines, asset grids, decks, etc).
  • Software proficiency required: Google Workspace, Slack, Adobe Creative Cloud. Experience in Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Office is a plus.
  • Familiarity with Jack Morton from prior work experience or collaborations is a plus. Interest in fostering a long term relationship with Jack Morton is ideal.

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