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Associate Creative Director, Design

Creative Services

Chamblee, GA

Full Time

In-Office and Remote

In a world full of screens and distractions, PullSpark helps brands build valuable long-term memories. Guided by our _nstinct™ framework, our approach is part art and part science; part creativity, curiosity and I’ve-never-seen-that-before. PullSpark partners with visionary brands and leaders to craft events, experiences and campaigns that make brands easy to love and hard to forget.

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Associate Creative Director, Design

Associate Creative Director, Design

Creative Services

Chamblee, GA

Full Time

In-Office and Remote

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About PullSpark

About PullSpark In a world full of screens and distractions, PullSpark helps brands build valuable long-term memories. Guided by our _nstinct™ framework, our approach is part art and part science; part creativity, curiosity and I’ve-never-seen-that-before. PullSpark partners with visionary brands and leaders to craft events, experiences and campaigns that make brands easy to love and hard to forget.

Reports to Art Director

Position overview

Role Overview

The Associate Creative Director (ACD), Design, is a working creative leader at PullSpark 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, PullSpark’s _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, PullSpark 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 PullSpark’s standard of excellence across all formats.

AI Design Systems & Prompt Strategy

  • Develop and maintain AI-assisted design and motion workflows that help PullSpark 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.

What you'll bring

Qualifications

Core Competencies

  • Multidisciplinary creative thinking

  • Event and experiential storytelling

  • Hands-on graphic design, motion design, and visual communication

  • Typography, layout, color, and brand identity systems

  • Animation and motion graphics for screens and live environments

  • Film and content production understanding

  • Music and VO direction

  • Presentation and messaging development

  • Creative problem solving

  • Workflow and execution oversight

  • Cross-functional communication

  • Brand understanding

  • Live production awareness

  • Attention to detail and creative quality control

Attributes

  • Highly collaborative, driven, and strategic thinker

  • Able to move fluidly between creative ideation and execution

  • Understands both big-picture vision and tactical implementation

  • Resourceful under pressure

  • Organized thinker with strong follow-through

  • Strong aesthetic and storytelling instincts

  • Calm and solutions-oriented in fast-paced environments

  • High standards for creative excellence and craftsmanship

  • Strong communicator across creative and operational teams

  • Executive presence for pitch presentations

  • Curious about emerging AI and creative technologies

Suggested Experience Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in creative production, creative direction, experiential marketing, agency production, or integrated content creation

  • Strong hands-on graphic design and motion design skills (Adobe Creative Suite, After Effects or equivalent), plus experience across live events, video, and branded storytelling

  • Experience using AI tools to support design and motion development and workflow optimization

  • Experience working within fast-paced agency or production environments

  • Strong understanding of live event production workflows

  • Portfolio showcasing graphic design, motion design, and experiential work, plus execution leadership

  • Experience leading creative execution teams preferred

Compensation and benefits

The Details

  • Location: Atlanta Preferred for Remote/In Office (5080 Peachtree Blvd, Suite 200, Chamblee, GA 30341)

  • Onsite: Up to 20–30% travel

  • Office Hours: 9:00 AM–5:00 PM (weekends and/or nights required depending on events)

  • Salary Range: $75,000–$95,000

  • Growth path: Associate Creative Director → Creative Director

  • Reports to: Art Director

  • Benefits

    • Health benefits upon completion of 30 days of employment, coverage begins on the first day of the next month

    • Retirement benefits after 60 days

    • Counseling reimbursement available

    • Annual Sparky Health Challenge that promotes wellbeing

    • Paid Parental and Caregiver Leave

    • Continuing Education opportunities

    • Company-wide social events

    • Annual retreat for ongoing development

  • Paid Time Off

    • Vacation accrual begins on your first day of employment and accrues at a rate of 1.5 days per month worked (15 vacation days/12 months) in your first year of employment. Vacation allocation will reset January 1. 

    • 12 weeks of paid maternity leave / 4 weeks paid paternity leave offered

    • 15 vacation days accrued per year

    • 1 volunteer day1 day for employee’s birthday (floating holiday)

    • Up to 17 paid holidays honored in addition to vacation time (depending on calendar year)

  • New Year’s Day

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Day

  • President’s Day

  • Memorial Day

  • Juneteenth

  • Independence Day

  • Labor Day

  • Thanksgiving Day

  • Day after Thanksgiving

  • Christmas Eve (if falling on business day)

  • Christmas Day (if falling on business day)

  • New Years Eve/December 31 (if falling on business day)

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