[Remote] Creative Director, Concept

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CNC Agency is an experiential marketing agency focused on creating meaningful connections through innovative experiences. They are seeking a Creative Director, Concept to lead the development of culturally relevant experiential concepts that align brand objectives with audience behavior. The role requires a blend of strategic thinking and creativity to translate insights into compelling narratives and experiences.

Responsibilities

• Partner with your Creative Director counterpart to lead a shared team across multiple concurrent programs, ensuring creative continuity, strategic alignment, and operational consistency across a large-scale account
• Lead the development of experiential concepts, creative territories, strategic narratives, and experience frameworks across a portfolio of brand initiatives
• Translate business objectives, audience insights, cultural shifts, and emerging behaviors into compelling creative opportunities
• Develop experience platforms that connect brand purpose, consumer behavior, and real-world activation
• Shape creative briefs, workshop outputs, and early-stage ideation into actionable concepts and programs
• Build compelling presentations and creative narratives that inspire both clients and internal teams
• Facilitate ideation sessions, creative workshops, and collaborative working sessions
• Ensure concepts remain strategically sound while pushing creative ambition
• Maintain a deep understanding of culture, consumer behavior, emerging communities, and shifts in how people engage with brands
• Translate cultural insights into meaningful experiences rather than trend-driven activations
• Partner with Strategy, Account, and Creative teams to identify opportunities that strengthen brand relevance and differentiation
• Evaluate work through both a strategic and creative lens, ensuring ideas are innovative, relevant, and executable
• Champion audience-centered thinking throughout the creative process
• Serve as a senior creative voice in client meetings, workshops, and presentations
• Present concepts, narratives, and creative rationale with confidence and clarity
• Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders through thoughtful creative partnership
• Facilitate conversations that help clients move from ambiguity to alignment and decision-making
• Defend creative recommendations while remaining collaborative and solutions-oriented
• Partner closely with your Creative Director to ensure conceptual thinking translates into exceptional execution
• Collaborate with designers, art directors, strategists, producers, writers, fabricators, and external partners throughout the creative process
• Provide thoughtful feedback that elevates both ideas and execution
• Remain actively involved through development and production phases to ensure original creative intent is preserved
• Help identify creative risks, gaps, and opportunities throughout project lifecycles
• Support activations, installations, and launches as needed to ensure experiences are delivered as intended

Skills

• 8+ years of experience in experiential marketing, brand experience, creative strategy, integrated creative, innovation, or related disciplines
• 3+ years of experience in a Creative Director or equivalent leadership role
• Demonstrated experience developing experiential concepts, creative platforms, and brand narratives for major consumer brands
• Strong experience translating strategy, insights, and cultural understanding into creative ideas
• Proven ability to lead client-facing creative discussions, workshops, and presentations
• Experience collaborating across design, strategy, production, and account disciplines
• Exceptional storytelling, communication, and presentation skills
• Experience working with global consumer, technology, mobility, entertainment, lifestyle, or hospitality brands
• Background spanning multiple disciplines including experiential marketing, creative strategy, innovation, integrated creative, design, or brand consulting
• Experience leading workshops, vision sessions, and collaborative ideation exercises
• Understanding of spatial storytelling, environmental design, live experiences, and experiential production

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