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The Creative Director of Experiences is responsible for dreaming, strategizing, creating and communicating storylines, creative treatments, design concepts and more with our internal team, clients and partners for large scale physical spaces in partnership with some of the world’s most recognizable brands.

Key responsibilities include working alongside members of our creative and production teams to strategically define solutions to meet client projects’ scope, develop concepts and content treatments, and collaborate with production to bring those elements to life (on time and on budget) in 3 dimensions.

Reporting to the Executive Creative Director, this role will collaborate across our creative and production teams and interface with clients and project teams to ensure efforts are integrated with overall vision and execution of the project.

Moderate travel is projected for the role (25-30%).

What we’d like you to bring to Hyperquake:

• 7+ years’ experience designing products/brands/experiences from conception to completion (minimum of 6 years post-graduate design experience)
• Experience with journalism/storytelling and bringing stories to life in 3 dimensions a plus.
• Strong creative concept, development and writing skills.
• Demonstrated experience in new mediums of storytelling, including large scale immersive installations, etc.
• Excellent planning, time management, and follow-through skills.
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills.
• Experience leading graphic, architectural, and A/V designers, writers, videographers etc. in major project completion.
• Strong communication, persuasion and presentation skills.
• Priority setting and effectively managing multiple projects at one time.
• Thorough understanding of our clients, their industries, our competition and our markets.

We are searching for someone that is unique, inspiring and has amazing design skills—a Designer to join our growing team in Cincinnati. This position requires critical thinking skills, dedication, and the ability to execute creative designs and provide support to others in a variety of project types including production/development, brand identity, front end innovation, immersive installations and digital experiences. But we don’t just want a doer…we want someone who asks questions, has the desire to learn and pushes the limits of design while producing amazing work along side our team.

The new addition to our team should be fun, artistic, dedicated, hardworking and open to feedback. You must be willing to help out where needed and jump from one project to another. In addition to unique talent, innovation and enthusiasm, we’re also looking for designers with a strong sense of responsibility and solid communication skills.

What we’d like you to bring to Hyperquake:

• Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts or related degree in design preferred
• We want a motivated designer, someone who can take direction and go with it!
• A strong background, with 2-3 years of design/co op experience and extremely knowledgeable with the tools of the trade – Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and various tools for design optimization.
• Teamwork skills and desire to help and support – the ability to work with all departments and have the confidence and skills to communicate your ideas clearly.
• The ability to simplify complexity and inspire others
• Understand how to create a wide breadth of rough creative concepts early in the creative process
• Communicate consistently and clearly with project team members throughout project life cycle
• Excellent conceptual and design skills with an obvious passion for growing and learning
• Ability to operate both autonomously and in a team environment/leadership role
• Must have a sound understanding of design principles, technology, and consumer understanding

If you are able to help lead and oversee a Client Leadership team, while driving employee development and agency process, this role could be for you. As an Associate Director of Client Leadership you must assist in the planning and implementation of Hyperquake’s short and long-range goals. You will be responsible for overseeing client relationships; acting as primary contact for key/critical client relationships and projects.

Relying on extensive experience and judgment to trouble shoot issues as well as plan for and accomplish goals is critical to the position. The Associate Director of Client Leadership will partner with heads of Strategy and Design to ensure appropriate resource allocation and a high level client output (across all disciplines)is delivered with each project request.

What we’d like you to bring to Hyperquake:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field required
• 7 years post graduate, industry experience
• Strong knowledge and experience in marketing and/or advertising, with emphasis on brand building
• Ability to effectively manage project statuses, changes, and issues
• Formulate relationships with key stakeholders and or decision makers
• Drive the planning and business development process with key clients
• Oversee fiscal well-being of these engagements
• Look for opportunities to improve Client relationships and grow accounts through strategic account planning and strong sell-in opportunities
• Assist with hiring, training and professionally develop all of assigned direct reports
• Clearly communicates the direction of the Client Leadership team to the Director or VP of Client Leadership
• Provide creative input to the Design Team based on Client input, personal expertise; reviews deliverables prior to delivering to client(s
• Act as primary client team resource for new project exploration, researching opportunities, developing RFPs, SOWs, etc
• Assign client team resources (client managers/project managers) to new work as required

We are searching for a dedicated and talented Associate Creative Director to join our growing creative team in Cincinnati. The ACD will lead and execute great design solutions to support the entire team on each book of business that they are assigned. Experience with brand management, mentoring and guiding other designers while also being capable of executing work as needed is required. This role will be responsible for helping to lead Hyperquake’s creative output, related to many facets of design from graphic and digital/interactive projects to campaigns and conceptual design thinking, ensuring all creative outputs meet and/or exceeds both agency and client expectations.

As an Associate Creative Director, you would be responsible for turning strategic goals into actionable design solutions to guide any brand’s success while helping us lead successful projects and build meaningful relationships.

If you believe what we believe, we want to talk to you.

What we’d like you to bring to Hyperquake:

• A passion for designing amazing creative alongside our strategy team.
• 7+ years’ experience designing products/brands/experiences from conception to completion (minimum of 6 years post-graduate design experience)
• Experience in understanding strategy/consumer insights and how each impact design
• The ability to clearly articulate design decisions and rationale
• Experience in brand management is required
• Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts or related degree in design preferred
• Expert knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
• Demonstrative ability to think strategically about design, and experience in leading multiple project types from concept to completion, whether it be a product/package design, website or brand experience.
• Ability to present work to clients and some travel required

We are searching for a Project Leader to join our growing team in Cincinnati. Our ideal candidate will be able to manage all ongoing project details and communication on an assigned book of business, while supporting our Group Leader . We are looking for someone that is able to effectively collaborate with cross functional teams, help facilitate meetings and manage agendas while moving multiple projects forward. The project leader will be an internal voice of the client and a detail-oriented task master.

This candidate must be confident in their abilities to manage accurate timelines, budgets and calendars while providing day-to-day tactical support for project deliverables related to marketing campaigns, web design, branding and video. This role will be responsible for helping to make sure all project deliverables are meeting the expectations of our Senior Group Leader.

What we’d like you to bring to Hyperquake:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field required
• 3-5 years post graduate, industry experience
• Strong knowledge and experience in marketing and/or advertising, with emphasis on brand building
• Solid understanding of project management and capable of multi-tasking
• Able to effectively communicate project statuses, changes, and issues to appropriate team members
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to learn new systems/processes while working against tight timelines.
• Ability to keep detailed records pertaining to file organization, documents, project updates, etc.