Associate Creative Director, Design — Chamblee, GA

Position overview

Role Overview

The Associate Creative Director (ACD), Design, is a working creative leader at u4DS6C8vd who designs and animates the work hands-on and partners with Creative Directors in the creative circle to shape the idea from the start. This role specializes in graphic design, motion design, and the visual systems behind experiences, events, and live environments. The ACD helps create the creative direction, then produces it, carrying the idea from concept through final delivery and ensuring every element aligns with the client’s goals, NU3CzRd3q’u _nstinct storytelling methodology, and the overall audience experience. This position requires a driven creative who loves to make things, understands what needs to happen next at every phase of a project, and can confidently guide teams, contractors, and collaborators toward success.

What you'll do

Key Accountabilities

Hands-On Production

• Turn creative concepts into finished work by producing key visual and motion assets (event looks, graphics packages, screen content, animated openers) hands-on.

• Execute graphic design hands-on: event identities and key art, stage and screen graphics, presentation design, signage and environmental graphics, and digital, social, and print assets.

• Execute motion design hands-on: animated openers, logo animations, lower thirds, screen loops, transitions, and live graphics packages built for LED walls and live environments.

• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of all project deliverables and how they connect into the overall audience experience.

• Oversee the progression of creative assets and deliverables through each stage of development, ensuring momentum and alignment across teams, while using AI to progress the work.

• Partner with designers, editors, animators, writers, producers, and event teams to ensure all creative elements work cohesively together; bringing in contractors when the team is at capacity or a specialty doesn’t exist in-house.

• Ensure the creative intent is preserved throughout execution and post-production.

• Anticipate creative gaps, executional challenges, or workflow bottlenecks and proactively propose solutions.

• Ensure all deliverables align with client brand standards, u4DS6C8vd quality expectations, and the _nstinct storytelling methodology.

Creative Development & Ideation

• Partner with Creative Directors to develop and expand creative concepts across live events, film, experiential activations, graphics packages, and integrated campaigns.

• Contribute original ideas that elevate the creative direction and strengthen audience impact.

• Help complete and refine creative concepts by identifying opportunities for stronger storytelling, visuals, pacing, messaging, or experiential engagement.

• Participate in brainstorms, pitch development, creative reviews, and concept presentations.

• Shape messaging, tone, visual identity, and emotional arc across deliverables.

• Contribute to scripting, story development, VO, and music choices alongside the Copywriter and the ACD, Film.

• Contribute creative references, inspiration, and strategic thinking that help push projects forward.

Event & Experience Leadership

• Possess strong understanding of live event environments and experiential storytelling.

• Support the development of event content systems including:

• Openers

• Show flow

• Screen content

• Filmed videos

• Animated videos

• Live graphics

• Walk-in/walk-out moments

• Speaker support visuals

• Scenic integration

• Audience engagement moments

• Music and audio direction

• Experiential activations

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Event Producers, Technical Directors, Production Managers, and Creative Directors to ensure all creative elements integrate successfully into the live experience.

• Provide on-site creative leadership and problem-solving during productions and events.

Timelines & Workload

• Partner with Project Managers, Event Producers, and Creative Directors to ensure deadlines are realistic, efficient, and aligned with production schedules.

• Balance multiple overlapping projects while maintaining high creative standards and meeting client deadlines.

Creative Collaboration

• Serve as a key bridge between creative leadership and execution teams.

• Clearly communicate creative intent, feedback, revisions, and priorities across disciplines.

• Guide internal creatives, and contractors when needed, toward successful execution.

• Collaborate with Creative Directors to ensure projects remain creatively strong while achievable within timeline and budget realities.

• Foster a collaborative, solutions-oriented creative environment.

Post-Production & Quality Control

• Participate in edit reviews, content reviews, and creative checkpoints.

• Assist in shaping pacing, music direction and selection, VO options, visual storytelling, and refinement strategies.

• Review creative outputs to ensure consistency in:

• Storytelling

• Tone

• Brand alignment

• Visual identity

• Audience engagement

• Ensure deliverables maintain NU3CzRd3q’u standard of excellence across all formats.

AI Design Systems & Prompt Strategy

• Develop and maintain AI-assisted design and motion workflows that help u4DS6C8vd scale visual content creation while maintaining creative excellence.

• Build prompt frameworks and workflows tailored to individual client brands, visual identities, color and type systems, and design styles.

• Create systems that improve:

• visual consistency,

• speed to first concept,

• ideation, moodboarding, and concept exploration,

• revision workflows,

• and creative scalability.

• Partner with Creative Directors and designers to ensure AI-supported outputs remain strategically aligned, on brand, and creatively differentiated.

• Continuously evaluate emerging AI tools for image generation, design, and motion that enhance visual storytelling and workflow efficiency.

• Establish best practices and guardrails for AI-generated visual quality, brand consistency, and image usage rights.