Creative Director, Spatial

Overview

About Elevate Elevate is a full-service consulting firm that inspires high-performing organizations to find their limits and push past them. With expertise in brand consulting, sales strategy, data-driven insights, and talent optimization, Elevate gives its clients a competitive edge in the fight for people’s precious time and attention. Established in 2018, Elevate set out to help sports teams and leagues spark innovation and drive performance.

Elevate supports some of the world’s most ambitious businesses across media, entertainment, and consumer brands. Elevate’s proprietary technology, data sources, and software products, combined with thoughtful insights and a people-centric approach, give clients a 360-degree view of their customers, underpinning intelligent decision-making on marketing spend and growth strategy.

Elevate Creative is the creative arm of Elevate—we are a best-in-class sports and entertainment firm that partners with the world’s most recognizable teams, brands, and properties. We forge unforgettable moments of connection by uniting storytelling and emotive design to create dynamic experiences and spaces that amplify brands and drive revenue.

Rooted in core truths and lived experience, boundless creativity creates transformative experiences for fans, translates a brand to three dimensions, and brings a space to life. We love building brands, experiences, stories, relationships, and moments that demand to be re-lived. At Elevate, creativity never stops.

The Experiential Creative Director, Spatial role translates brand narratives into three-dimensional environments — from concept to final execution. You will lead the creative team in developing spatial and environmental design solutions for physical, built environments such as branded interiors, installations, pop-ups, preview centers, or permanent spaces. This is not purely visual or digital design; proven spatial design experience is essential. Ideal candidates understand how people interact with physical space, including materiality, circulation, scale, and atmosphere.

You should be fluent in spatial planning and environmental storytelling and capable of guiding the creation of 2D and 3D design documentation for fabrication, installation, and implementation.

As Creative Director, you will be accountable for the quality of creative work across projects and responsible for maintaining strong client relationships. You will lead the creative vision for major engagements, ensuring work is strategically aligned with client goals and Elevate’s creative standards. You’ll inspire multidisciplinary teams, mentor emerging leaders, and drive innovation across disciplines. You are a systems thinker and an expert storyteller who can bridge brand, space, technology, and user experience into cohesive, emotionally resonant journeys.

You thrive in ambiguity, lead with empathy and clarity, and bring an entrepreneurial mindset to growing both teams and ideas.

We welcome applicants from diverse design backgrounds—Environmental Design, Architecture, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Scenic Design, or similar. You must show professional work that demonstrates spatial thinking and execution in physical environments, including completed physical projects, design leadership in real-world installations, environmental graphics integrated into space, or other tangible, spatially-driven work. A portfolio that showcases experiential work, strategic thinking, strong storytelling, and experience working with iconic brands is required.

Demonstrate a history of growing talent, shaping culture, and driving success in fast-paced, competitive environments.

ABOUT YOU:

• 12+ years of professional experience in experiential, architectural, immersive brand, and/or spatial design.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale, cross-functional creative projects with significant business impact.
• Portfolio showcasing industry-leading experiential storytelling and holistic journey design.
• History of shaping creative direction for multiple teams or practice areas.
• Proven success in growing client relationships…