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About the Role
The Senior Design Director (Specialized Environments) will play a key leadership role within the Specialized Environments practice, helping lead the creative development, design direction, and execution of high-profile environments across broadcast, branded experiences, workplace, sports, entertainment, cultural, and permanent spatial experiences. This role requires a senior creative leader who can guide complex projects, build client confidence, mentor design teams, and help shape the future growth of the Specialized Environments group.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design vision for complex environmental and broadcast design projects from concept through design development.
- Create and guide strong design concepts that connect brand, storytelling, audience experience, and physical space.
- Bring a high level of taste, design judgment, and spatial thinking to the work.
- Push creative ideas beyond expected solutions while staying grounded in client goals, schedule, budget, and execution realities.
- Help establish and maintain the creative bar for the Specialized Environments practice.
- Lead design workstreams across multiple projects, from initial brief through presentation and production handoff.
- Partner with strategy, creative, account, project management, production, fabrication, technical, and vendor teams.
- Guide the development of mood boards, concept narratives, plans, sketches, elevations, material direction, renderings, presentations, and design documentation.
- Ensure design intent is clearly communicated and protected throughout the process.
- Identify challenges early and help drive solutions with the internal team and external partners.
- Present work clearly and confidently to clients and senior stakeholders.
- Translate complex design thinking into clear, compelling narratives.
- Build trust with clients through strong communication, creative confidence, and thoughtful problem-solving.
- Receive and respond to client feedback while maintaining the integrity of the design idea.
- Support new business opportunities, pitches, and capabilities presentations as needed.
- Mentor designers and help grow the creative capabilities of the team.
- Provide clear, constructive feedback that improves the work and supports individual growth.
- Help organize design reviews, internal critiques, and creative development sessions.
- Support a collaborative studio culture built around curiosity, accountability, craft, and shared learning.
- Serve as a senior creative partner to the Head of Specialized Environments and other design leaders.
- Help expand the Specialized Environments offering across broadcast, sports, entertainment, brand experience, workplace, cultural, retail, hospitality, and immersive environments.
- Bring fresh thinking, industry awareness, and a point of view on where the practice can grow.
- Contribute to thought leadership, case studies, capabilities decks, and internal initiatives.
- Help identify new creative opportunities with existing and future clients.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in environmental design, experiential design, architecture, interior design, scenic design, broadcast design, branded environments, or a related field.
- Experience leading complex spatial design projects from concept through execution.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating environmental storytelling, spatial design, materiality, lighting, graphics, and brand integration.
- Experience presenting to clients and senior stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring or leading designers.
- Ability to work across multiple project types and scales.
- Strong understanding of design process, production realities, fabrication, and buildability.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced, collaborative agency environment.
Skills
- Excellent spatial design ability.
- Strong presentation, storytelling, and client-facing skills.
- Experience leading both people and projects while guiding creative direction.
- Strong interest in helping build a growing practice.
- Strong collaboration across strategy, creative, account, production, and technical teams.
- Comfort with ambiguity and complex project dynamics.
- Strong communication, organization, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to explain the “why” behind the work.
- Curiosity across different types of environments.
- Ability to push creative ideas while understanding execution.
- Strong eye for detail, proportion, materiality, lighting, and finish.
- Ability to balance creative ambition with practical execution.
- Drafting in Vectorworks or AutoCAD.
- Rendering skills in Cinema 4D or 3D.
Location
- NYC strongly preferred
- ability to work hybrid in a Jack US office preferred
Work Type
- hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
- 10+ years
About the Company
- At Jack Morton, we design and build head-turning, smile-inducing, impact-driving brand experiences that redefine what experiential marketing can achieve.
- We help our clients unlock the full value of experiences by turning bold ideas into meaningful connections.
- That takes a team that's bold, curious, and acts as one.
- We build on each other's ideas, challenge conventions, and show up for one another every day.
- Here, you'll do your best work, grow quickly, and partner across clients, disciplines, and global teams to bring new ideas to life.
- This is a place where curiosity drives what’s next, boldness raises the bar, and every win is shared.
- Where ownership is expected, egos are left at the door, and the work reflects the passion and talent of the people behind it.
- Experience without limits—in your work, your growth, and your impact.
Equal Opportunity
- Jack Morton is an equal opportunity employer; we strongly value diversity at our companies.
- We do not discriminate on race, religion, color, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.