Creative Director, Spatial

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.

In the years since, the world of sports has transformed, today standing at the convergence of media, entertainment, and consumer brands, with Elevate supporting some of the world’s most ambitious businesses across these sectors. Elevate’s proprietary technology, data sources, and software products combined with our thoughtful insights, and people-centric approach give clients a 360-degree view of their customers, underpinning intelligent decision-making on marketing spend, growth strategy, and more.

Our team of 400+ employees spans the globe with in 20 locations worldwide. We value recruiting diverse individuals to our team to bring new perspectives to our company and look forward to learning more about you in the recruitment process. To learn more and see what we’ve been up to, follow Elevate on X, Linked In, and Instagram.

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. Together, we forge unforgettable moments of connection, 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. While most people look at something head-on, we tilt our heads to change perspective. 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 will play a key role in translating brand narratives into three-dimensional environments
—from initial 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 a purely visual or digital design role—
proven spatial design experience is essential. Ideal candidates bring a deep understanding of 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. However, you must be able to show professional work that demonstrates spatial thinking and execution in physical environments. This could include completed physical projects, design leadership in real‑world installations, environmental graphics integrated into space, or other tangible, spatially-driven work.

Candidates should have a portfolio that showcases experiential work, strategic thinking, strong…