Bizzabo is looking for a Senior Director of Brand and Creative Design who will serve as our brand design strategist to help grow, evolve, and protect the Bizzabo brand as well as build and lead an innovative creative design team. This is an opportunity to take a successful brand to the next level and build the foundation for a creative function for the leading event success platform. Reporting directly into the SVP of Experience, your role will be to lead creative projects as well as inspire and manage a team of designers. We're looking for a creative problem solver who can think strategically but also loves getting into the details that take design from good to great. Working in a fast-paced environment on our growing team, this person is responsible for designing insights-led strategies to increase awareness of Bizzabo and drive deeper affinity for our brand and products.

Bizzabo powers immersive in-person, virtual, and hybrid experiences. The Bizzabo Event Experience OS is a data-rich open platform that allows Event Experience Leaders to manage events, engage audiences, activate communities, and deliver powerful business outcomes — all while keeping attendee data private and secure. Bizzabo powers events for world-leading brands, from Fortune 100 enterprise organizations and financial institutions to creative agencies and scaling tech companies. Bizzabo was founded by Boaz Katz, Alon Alroy, and Eran Ben-Shushan, and has more than 300 employees in its New York, Tel-Aviv, Kyiv, Montreal, and London offices, as well as 15+ remote locations around the world.

*Must submit portfolio for consideration*

Community Details and Perks:

The Bizzabo Community 

At Bizzabo we believe that culture is more than just happy hour and a ping pong table (though we do love a good ping pong tournament), we believe that culture is everything we do and how we do it. Our values are what help to guide us in our interactions with each other, our customers, and anyone who crosses paths with Bizzabo. Bizzabo fosters an environment of communication and trust. We don’t just offer the opportunity to share ideas, we encourage you to own your ideas and bring them to fruition.

Our core values as a community have carried over to the virtual workspace as we’ve transitioned to remote work in light of COVID-19.

Perks

• We offer a comprehensive insurance package at no out of pocket cost to the employee, 401k, Pre-tax commuter benefits, and a generous vacation policy.
• We are a dog friendly in-person and virtual office!
• For new employees joining us during this remote work period, we offer a comprehensive virtual onboarding experience with a stipend to get your remote office set up. 
• We have frequent Bizzabonding activities including bi-weekly sponsored lunches, bi-weekly happy hours, virtual cooking classes, yoga classes, fitness classes, and other virtual bonding activities to keep our Bizzaboers engaged and connected. We welcome all new ideas and encourage each Bizzaboer to participate or lead their own virtual event!
• Our office is located on 27th and Broadway south of Madison Square Garden. This vibrant neighborhood includes great lunch spots, train accessibility, and views of the Empire State Building.

What you’ll be doing:

• Drive and own day-to-day creative direction and oversight for a team of Creative and Video Designers.
• Design and create unique, high-impact brand experiences and marketing oriented material 
• Build scalable and effective brand design strategies including positioning, content and messaging for Bizzabo’s brand 
• Become an expert on Bizzabo’s brand, products, target customer, and clients
• Partner with the UX Research Team to ensure insights are leveraged for key strategy projects and to validate elements of the brand strategy with clients and consumers
• Partner with the Product Marketing team, Content team, and UX team to translate strategy into tactical plans for implementation
• Design and deliver creative briefs, collaborating with and supporting creative teams internally and/or agency partners externally as they translate strategy into client-facing assets
• Deliver clear and compelling presentations of strategies and ideas grounded in data to senior stakeholders
• Partnering with our Marketing teams to provide visual, creative, and conceptual videos, email, social media, advertising, swag, and more
• Help shape the strategic vision and goals for the Brand/Creative Design team
• Inspire, create and sustain a culture of excellence by mentoring designers in best practices, design process, and ideation

Who you are:

• 6-8+ years of hands-on on-line, motion and creative design, alongside with brand strategy experience at a leading consultancy, brand strategy agency, or in-house brand team at a product / startup company
• A VP or Director level, who has experience in a creative leadership role overseeing conception and design of cross-channel customer experiences
• At least 3 years of direct management experience of creative teams, working simultaneously on different projects with different timelines
• Experience working with and presenting to executive level
• Experience developing purpose-led brand positioning
• Experience positioning new products/services and translating that positioning into actionable implications across the customer experience
• Experience designing and developing effective, measurable brand-building strategies
• Experience managing multiple high-profile, cross-functional projects simultaneously
• Experience managing external agencies 
• Appetite for problem solving and a love for fast-paced, constantly-changing environments
• Ability to create and direct high quality campaigns