About the Role
Partner with Sales and Creative teams to develop strategic, experience-driven proposals and client presentations. Shape the creative vision for corporate events, translating client goals into compelling and executable environments, moments, and experiences in a deadline-driven environment.
Responsibilities
- Develop event themes aligned to destination, audience, and client objectives.
- Design guest environments including layouts, lounges, table scapes, entry moments, and custom elements.
- Translate client goals into cohesive, end-to-end guest experiences.
- Ensure concepts are both inspiring and operationally feasible.
- Lead creative ideation for proposals and client presentations.
- Build clear narratives supported by mood boards, imagery, and diagrams.
- Partner with Sales to create concepts that are compelling, confident, and easy to sell.
- Source and recommend interactive activations and specialty experiences.
- Curate entertainment aligned to audience, energy level, and event objectives.
- Ensure all elements feel intentional and connected to the overall theme.
- Design transportation strategies for programs ranging from 20 to 5,000+ guests.
- Coordinate movement, arrival, and departure as part of the overall guest experience.
- Price decor, entertainment, activations, and transportation with margin awareness.
- Source and evaluate vendors, balancing creativity with budget and profitability.
- Recommend solutions that maximize impact while remaining realistic.
- Partner closely with Sales, Event Managers, and Creative teammates.
- Present concepts with clarity and confidence.
- Uphold the Access brand voice and creative standards across all work.
Requirements
- 3+ years in DMC, corporate events, hospitality, or experiential design.
- Experience building event concepts before execution and presenting vision to clients.
- Knowledge of decor, entertainment, activations, and transportation for live events.
- Comfortable discussing budgets, pricing decisions, and creative trade-offs.
- Highly organized, collaborative, and calm under pressure.
Skills
- Event Design
- Concept Development
- Proposal Strategy
- Storytelling
- Activations
- Entertainment Curation
- Transportation Strategy
- Budgeting
- Vendor Strategy
- Collaboration
- Brand Stewardship
Location
- Austin/San Antonio area
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Salary/Compensations
- Highly competitive total compensation, including strong base salary and quarterly bonuses
- Very strong performance-based quarterly commission plans
Benefits
- 401k with company match (eligible after 1 year – up to 4% of salary matched, vested immediately)
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Flexible schedule opportunities
- Generous PTO
- Sick days
- 9 full holidays
- 5 half days off prior to holidays to unplug early
- 2 floating holidays off to be used on holidays of your choice
- ½ day Fridays in July & August (based on achievement of goals)
- Extensive menu of health plans to choose from
- Paid parental leave
- Pet insurance program
- Employee Assistance Plan (EAP)
- Mentorship program
- “Masterclasses” in industry/department-specific topics
- State-of-the-art technology platforms and tools – including training
- Annual and monthly meeting content that focuses on professional development
About the Company
- Access is a destination management company that designs shared experiences for some of the world’s most recognizable brands.
- From intimate incentive trips to large-scale meetings, trainings, and sales-driven events, we bring people together through thoughtful design, smart sourcing, and seamless execution.
- Our work blends imagination with intention.
- We dream big, then we build it right.
- Certified as a Great Place to Work – 3 years in a row and counting!
- 55+ years in the industry!
- Women-owned and women-led
- Fun, creative, and supportive culture
- Focus on recognition and employee value – including annual and quarterly awards
- Paid day off to serve your local community
- Annual all-company retreat to connect, learn, and have fun together
- Annual qualifier-based incentive trip for top performers (certain departments eligible)
- Regional team outings
- Monthly companywide meetings to connect, learn, and celebrate wins
Equal Opportunity
- Access is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.
- We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, or genetic information.
- We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process.
- If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at careers@accessdmc.com.
