Senior Experiential Designer / Creative Strategist

Exhibitus

Chicago, Illinois

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Architectural Design, Brand Marketing (Branding), Brand Strategy, Campaigns, Communication Skills, Environmental Design, Experiment Design, Industrial Design, Marketing, Mentoring, Product Design, Product Marketing, Request for Proposals (RFP), Retail, Storytelling, Trade Shows, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)
LOCATION
Chicago, Illinois
POSTED
5 days ago

Why you'll love Exhibitus: 

Exhibitus is a leading exhibit design and experiential marketing company with products and services that support live events, trade shows, branded interiors, engagements and virtual/digital environments. 

At Exhibitus, we believe the most powerful brand experiences don’t just look good — they create emotional connection, influence behavior, and make people remember who a brand is.  

We’re looking for a highly driven, strategically minded creative who lives at the intersection of brand, space, storytelling, and human experience. Someone who understands how environments communicate. Someone who obsesses over details, thinks in systems, sketches ideas constantly, and knows how to turn strategy into experiences people can physically walk through and emotionally connect with.  

This is not a production-only role.  
This is not a “make it pretty” role.  

We’re looking for an emerging creative leader — someone with design instincts, client presence, work ethic, and ambition to help shape the future of experiential design at Exhibit 

Position Summary and Responsibilities: 

Exhibitus is hiring a Senior Experiential Designer / Creative Strategist. As a Senior Experiential Designer/ Creative Strategist you’ll help lead the development of immersive brand environments across trade shows, experiential campaigns, branded environments, and strategic activations for some of the world’s most recognized brands 

Responsibilities 

  • Translate brand strategy into spatial storytelling and physical experiences  

  • Develop creative concepts from initial ideation through presentation and execution  

  • Design environments that communicate clearly to different audience types  

  • Collaborate with strategists, account teams, producers, fabricators, and clients  

  • Present ideas confidently and intelligently to clients and internal teams  

  • Build compelling narratives around design decisions  

  • Contribute to pitch work, RFP responses, and high-level creative strategy  

  • Help mentor younger creatives while continuing to sharpen your own craft  

  • Push the quality of thinking, not just the quality of renderings  

 

Requirements and skills 

  • 5–10 years of experience in experiential marketing, exhibit design, branded environments, retail experiences, or spatial design  

  • A background in Industrial Design, Product Design, Environmental Design, Architecture, Experiential Design, Marketing, or a related field  

  • A portfolio that demonstrates both conceptual thinking and executional excellence  

  • Strong instincts around brand communication and audience engagement  

  • Exceptional taste and a refined design point of view  

  • A personal passion for design beyond work  

  • Strong proficiency in some combination of:  

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About the Company

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Exhibitus

We’re a passionate group. We’re interpreters, collaborators, creative builders and listeners who develop best-in-class solutions to enhance our client’s overall marketing programs. Our award-winning exhibits can only be chalked up to the chemistry we share with our clients and each other – because your end product is only as good as the process it takes to create it, and the people you trust to make it happen. Let’s get to know each other.

Design, build, manage. Trade show, mobile, museum, corporate interiors, themed environments. Custom, rental. It’s a world that’s not on the printed page, it’s not on the big screen – it’s not on any screen. It’s 3-D, in your face, all around you, pick-you-up-and-sweep-you-away marketing that, if done right, has the power to link brands to audiences in ways no other media can. We’re show people. We’re interpreters, we’re builders, we’re movers (and shakers). Our award-winning partnerships can only be chalked up to the chemistry we share with our clients and each other – because your end product is only as good as the process it takes to create it, and the people you entrust to make it happen.

COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Manufacturing - Other
FOUNDED
1994
WEBSITE
https://exhibitus.com/