Freelance Associate Creative Director, Design Keynotes & Events (Contract)

The role

This person will lead creative concepting, visual styling, and design for technical keynote presentations and event collateral. You will work directly with clients to provide design direction, PowerPoint design, and animation.

What you will do

• Provides creative expertise in client pitches, work shares, and brainstorms
• Designs creative output inclusive of data visualizations, technical diagrams, and conceptual, informational slides
• Delegates to project teams and manages creative processes from conception through final delivery
• Enforces and improves standards for audience-first visual storytelling
• Designs storyboards for animated sequences
• Workshops ideas in direct collaboration with client stakeholders
• Escalates project risks and concerns to senior leadership

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of design experience
• At least 3 years in an Associate Creative Director or senior creative leadership role
• A portfolio that specifically showcases keynote and large-scale event presentations
• Experience leading creative execution in live event environments
• Expert-level PowerPoint and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator) proficiency
• Working knowledge of Keynote, Google Slides, and Figma
• Demonstrated experience managing and mentoring designers, motion designers and other creatives
• Cross-functional collaboration experience partnering with strategy and account leads

Nice to have

• Knowledge of After Effects and Media Encoder
• Knowledge of AI tools such as Midjourney, Firefly, Runway, Claude, and Gemini

About the company

Article Group is a strategic advisory and creative studio. They work with product marketers at tech companies and startups to provide strategic and creative capabilities.