Senior Manager, Event Design

Senior Manager, Event Design

Senior Manager, Event Design is a strategic creative leader responsible for envisioning and delivering bold, world‑class event experiences across McDermott’s portfolio — from intimate, high‑touch gatherings to large‑scale, multi‑day signature events with 2,000+ attendees.

• Partner closely with the Creative Director to push creative boundaries while ensuring consistency, clarity, and sophistication across all event executions.
• Help drive the creative vision for McDermott events, developing overarching concepts and narratives that unify digital, environmental, and experiential elements into a seamless attendee journey.
• Design immersive, ownable experiences that transform venues into branded environments aligned with McDermott’s brand standards, business priorities, and audience expectations.
• Translate high‑level themes and messaging into scalable creative systems that work across event sizes, formats, and geographies.
• Oversee the design of digital event assets, including email campaigns, event registration websites, and social graphics, ensuring cohesion across all pre‑event marketing channels.
• Lead the design and execution of on‑site creative applications, including environmental branding, signage, stage graphics, way finding, experiential moments, and printed collateral.
• Own the creative workstream for assigned events, leading creative status calls, managing timelines and workflows, and serving as the primary creative point of contact for stakeholders.
• Brief, guide, and review work from internal designers and external vendors, providing clear direction and managing partners to ensure design intent is executed at the highest level, on time and on budget.

• Bachelor’s degree.
• At least ten (10) years of experience in event design, experiential marketing, brand environments, or integrated creative roles, with leadership responsibility.
• Hands‑on expertise in design tools (Adobe Creative Suite; Figma or similar preferred) with the judgment to know when to design personally vs. delegate.
• Ability to design large scale, high‑profile events as well as intimate, detail‑driven experiences.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, spatial/environmental design, and integrated digital and physical executions.
• Deep understanding of how creative strategy supports business objectives and audience engagement.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to articulate ideas clearly and persuasively to senior stakeholders.
• Ability to manage vendors, production partners, and print processes with confidence and precision.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word).

Target Hiring Range: $145,000 - $194,000. Successful candidates will receive a competitive total rewards package with opportunities to earn performance‑based bonuses, a discretionary bonus for full‑time positions, and a comprehensive benefits package.

• Requires sitting, using hands, reaching with hands and arms, stooping, talking and hearing; employee must occasionally lift up to twenty (20) pounds.
• Typical indoor office environment.