Senior Experiential Art Director

RESPONSIBILITIES:
A client with Kforce is seeking a Senior Experiential Art Director to join their team in Mountain View, CA.

Overview:
At the core of it all, you bring the client's brand to life in built space, whether that's an event, a pop-up experience, or workplace design. As a multidisciplinary designer, you bring a strong hand in both graphic design and experiential design to every project, translating brand systems into fully realized physical environments. You take high-level creative narratives and turn them into tangible, high-fidelity spaces, applying the same rigor to a floor plan that you'd apply to a brand guideline. You design the event's design system, apply it across the environment, and then conceptualize the interactive moments that immerse the audience in the strategy behind it.

Core Responsibilities:
* Vision Translation: Take abstract concepts and turn them into concrete design directions, mood boards, and spatial layouts
* Brand & Systems Application: Design the event's visual and design system, then apply it across physical touchpoints, from print and signage to full-scale environments, keeping consistency and craft intact at every scale
* Activation Concepting: Conceptualize immersive and interactive activations that bring the event strategy to life
* Environmental Design: Shape the look and feel of a space, aligning lighting, materiality, and spatial flow with the experiential story
* Collaborative Execution: Work cross-collaboratively with the broader design team, from creative to production, to make sure the vision comes through at every stage without losing creative integrity
* Sensory Detail: Own the granular details, material sourcing, color palettes, and environmental styling, that turn a space into a cohesive, immersive reality

REQUIREMENTS:
* Experience: 8-10 years in Art Direction, with a strong mix of graphic design/brand systems and experiential, event, and environmental design
* Design Systems: Hands-on craft applying brand and graphic design systems in physical space
* Environmental Design: Proven experience designing for events, spaces, or immersive environments, translating 2D brand elements into 3D experiences
* Sensory Design Knowledge: Understanding of how physical elements (lighting, materiality, spatial flow) shape how people experience a brand
* Storytelling Ability: A portfolio showing the ability to carry a concept across a complex, multi-day or multi-room experience
* Communication: Ability to clearly explain design choices to stakeholders and connect them to broader business goals

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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