Associate Creative Director, Design Keynotes & Events

Hi. We're Article Group, a strategic advisory and creative studio. That means we often work with product marketers at some of the most well-known tech companies (think: Google, Meta, Amazon, Salesforce etc.). It also means we're a great partner for startups and early-stage companies looking to leverage our strategic and creative capabilities. Our rapidly growing keynote business focuses on synthesizing visual storytelling with expert customer service. We craft bold presentations for some of the top industry leaders at brands like Amazon Web Services, AIG, and Crowdstrike. We strive to make every slide and animation clear, beautiful, surprising, and useful. We want all of our speakers to be able to present with confidence, and aim to reduce friction in the keynote development process through the clarity that comes from a strong point of view. Role description The Associate Creative Director, Design at Article Group leads creative concepting, visual styling, design, and client workshares on assigned design projects, including keynote programs. You will be accountable for creative problem-solving, creative leadership, and managing project teams of designers, animators, and other cross-disciplinary creatives while contributing to client-facing deliverables in a "hands-on" manner. You will drive creative excellence across design-centric workflows and deliverables, with a heavy focus in our keynote business. In close collaboration with cross-functional disciplines within AG, you will represent Article Group to clients and own accountability for creative decisions. You will demonstrate consultative listening to grasp client objectives, persuasive presentation of creative concepts, and adaptive problem-solving when incorporating feedback. As a design leader, you will be a trusted resource for designers around the agency, helping them with challenges around ideation, raising their craft, applying fit and finish, and bringing great work with coherent reasoning back to their teams. As a craftsperson, you will bring your design skills to making and elevating work for clients and the AG brand. Your background skews towards keynote and presentation design, art direction, and visual storytelling. You are capable of direct partnership with strategy and engagement leads to identify client problems and plan project-level processes. You can lead the creative effort by example as both a doer and delegator of tasks while giving concise, actionable feedback to team members of all levels. Ultimately, you are responsible for crafting and advocating for the integrity of the core creative vision with team members and clients. You will work in a remote environment. Travel for on-site events will be required. Key responsibilities:

• Provides creative expertise in client pitches, work shares, and brainstorms, to establish and reinforce client confidence in Article Group's creative capabilities.
• Moves ideas past the obvious and brings teams and clients along with them.
• Manages a full slate of project work, which could include hands-on design execution and oversight on simultaneous projects at a given time.
• Leads project teams and manages creative processes and deliverables from conception through final delivery.
• Enforce and improve AG standards and processes for audience-first visual storytelling in slide and motion design.
• Improves internal efficiency and effectiveness by designing or refining workflows and guiding colleagues through process changes.
• Delegates or takes on design work directly as required.
• Supports junior team members via training, feedback, and coaching for craft, communication, collaboration, and process. You will teach through delegation and critique.
• Partners regularly with senior Article Group leadership colleagues to understand client business and audience and ensure creative work fulfills strategic intent.
• Expert in Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Creative Suite (specifically Photoshop and Illustrator). Working knowledge of Keynote, Google Slides, Figma is expected. Knowledge of After Effects and Media Encoder is nice to have.
• Knowledge of AI tools such as Midjourney, Firefly, Runway, Claude, and Gemini is a bonus.

Minimum requirements:

• 6+ years of design experience with at least 3 years in an Associate Creative Director or senior creative leadership role
• A portfolio that specifically showcases keynote and large-scale event presentations
• Experience working onsite at live events in a creative leadership capacity, with the ability to own the room when things go sideways during production
• Expert-level PowerPoint and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator) proficiency, with working knowledge of Keynote, Google Slides, and Figma
• Demonstrated experience managing and mentoring designers, motion designers and other creatives across levels, including giving direct, actionable feedback that actually improves the work
• Cross-functional collaboration experience, specifically partnering with strategy and account leads

We're committed to building a transparent and equitable hiring process. The salary range for this role is $115,000–$160,000, determined by experience, expertise, and location. Beyond compensation, you'll receive a comprehensive benefits package and a meaningful opportunity to help shape the direction of a key part of our business. We take a thoughtful approach to compensation, ensuring alignment with both market benchmarks and the value each candidate brings to the role. Article Group is committed to providing equal employment opportunities without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. COVID-19 considerations: We started as a distributed team, and have barely skipped a beat in shifting to 100% remote. When it's abundantly safe to work in and commute to our offices, we will re-open – but will remain flexible to remote collaboration. Remote Skills: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Alliance/Partner Management, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Animation, Art Direction, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Growth, Coaching, Cross-Functional, Customer Relations, Customer Support/Service, Design Services, Identify Issues, Leadership, Mentoring, Microsoft PowerPoint, Multitasking, Persuasion Skills, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Process Management, Product Marketing, Project Design, Project Planning, Project Tracking, Project/Program Management, Safety/Work Safety, Salesforce.com, Startup, Storytelling, Team Lead/Manager, Training/Teaching About the Company: Article Group Apply To This Job