Creative Strategist
viva creativeSilver Spring (MD)
Creative Strategist
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viva creativeSilver Spring (MD)
SENIORITY
Senior
About the role
Do What You Love at VIVA Creative We're an award-winning experiential agency looking for multi-talented, passionate people. Every team member at VIVA is a thinker, a dreamer, a storyteller, and a "get-it-done-whatever-it-takes" doer. We're seeking stellar Creative Strategists to support our team, working directly with VIVA executives to win new business and retain existing clients. This is a high-profile chance to flex your skills in research, strategy, storytelling, leadership, and creativity to produce industry-leading proposals, pitch concepts, and contribute to marketing initiatives and client projects. This is an in-office role based in the Washington, D.C. metro area, 4-5 days per week. Local candidates or actively involved in relocating only, please. Your days move between digging into what's new in events, content, and immersive experiences, reading between the lines of industry research, RFPs, and budgets to surface the insights and ideas that win. You'll do it through creative lookbooks, smart questions, and in-person working sessions with creatives, designers, producers, directors, technical innovators, account managers, executives, and clients. You'll write everything from concept briefs and speaker remarks to guest journey narratives and full-length proposals. AI is an essential part of your toolkit, but writing is one of your top human skills, and you take pride in your voice. You're collaborative. You want the work to be great, take feedback openly, and don't get too attached to your own ideas. You understand how to scope projects so your ideas, mood boards, and words land within fiscal and venue-based reality. You're flexible enough to change direction and resourceful enough to make the next version stronger. If you're looking for a 9-to-5 and that's it, this job is not for you. We're a project-based, deadline-driven agency, and when deadlines hit, our team digs in together. Sometimes that includes late nights and weekends.
What We're Looking For:
- Hands-on experience producing or strategizing for live events
- A degree in Marketing, Communications, Media, or a related field, plus the superpowers you picked up along the way 6+ years as a creative, marketer, or strategist. Agency experience is a major plus but not a deal-breaker. Different but relevant path? Tell us why
- Active, practiced fluency in AI tools as part of your daily creative and strategic workflow
- A portfolio of exceptional samples showing your critical thinking and creative range
- Strategic instincts to plan, organize, and prioritize across multiple deadlines
- Demonstrated experience leading live brainstorms, then going heads-down solo to deliver a polished draft under pressure
- A track record of translating complex business information into clear messages for colleagues, leadership, and clients
- Consider this your brief. Show us what you've got.
- ABOUT VIVA CREATIVEVIVA Creative is a worldwide leader in experiential marketing, event production, and content creation, celebrating 25 years of connecting people through events, content, and experiences.
- We are a creative group of thinkers, doers, and believers in the power of human connection. Our work brings people together and inspires audiences to think, feel, act, and share.
- Headquartered near Washington, D.C., with our own cutting-edge content studios, we have produced events, content, and experiences in all 50 states and on five continents, earned more than 200 industry awards, and are a certified woman- and minority-owned business.
- Come feel the heart, soul, and enthusiasm of creative people doing what they love and pursuing the highest standard. Smiles and high-fives included.
- VIVA Creative is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.
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