Creative Manager

Responsibilities

• Develop event themes aligned to destination, audience, and client objectives
• Design guest environments including layouts, lounges, table scapes, entry moments, and custom elements
• Translate client goals into cohesive, end-to-end guest experiences
• Ensure concepts are both inspiring and operationally feasible
• Lead creative ideation for proposals and client presentations
• Build clear narratives supported by mood boards, imagery, and diagrams
• Partner with Sales to create concepts that are compelling, confident, and easy to sell
• Source and recommend interactive activations and specialty experiences
• Curate entertainment aligned to audience, energy level, and event objectives
• Ensure all elements feel intentional and connected to the overall theme
• Design transportation strategies for programs ranging from 20 to 5,000+ guests
• Coordinate movement, arrival, and departure as part of the overall guest experience
• Price decor, entertainment, activations, and transportation with margin awareness
• Source and evaluate vendors, balancing creativity with budget and profitability
• Recommend solutions that maximize impact while remaining realistic
• Partner closely with Sales, Event Managers, and Creative teammates
• Present concepts with clarity and confidence
• Uphold the Access brand voice and creative standards across all work

• 3+ years in DMC, corporate events, hospitality, or experiential design
• Experience building event concepts before execution and presenting vision to clients
• Knowledge of decor, entertainment, activations, and transportation for live events
• Comfortable discussing budgets, pricing decisions, and creative trade-offs
• Highly organized, collaborative, and calm under pressure