Creative Director/ Senior Studio Head at CS Direkt

Role Overview:

The Studio Role - Experiential Design will be responsible for leading creative development, concept design, and visual storytelling for experiential projects including museums, exhibitions, heritage installations, immersive environments, and experience centres.

The role requires a professional with strong creative direction capabilities, experience managing multidisciplinary design teams, and hands-on expertise in AI-powered design tools and visualization technologies used in the experiential design industry.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead concept development and creative design for projects including museums, exhibitions, experience centres, projection mapping shows, and immersive installations.

- Translate project briefs into compelling visual narratives, spatial concepts, and storytelling frameworks.

- Guide teams in concept ideation, storyboarding, visual design, and spatial storytelling.

- Develop creative presentations, pitch decks, and concept documentation for project proposals and client presentations.

- Collaborate with architects, designers, project teams, and engineers to ensure seamless integration of creative concepts into project execution.

- Review and refine visual outputs including sketches, storyboards, illustrations, layouts, and digital visualizations.

- Ensure consistency in design language, visual storytelling, and experiential quality across all projects.

- Manage studio workflows, timelines, and design deliverables across multiple projects simultaneously.

- Mentor and guide studio team members including designers, illustrators, 3D artists, and visualization specialists.

- Coordinate with project and business development teams during concept development, pitches, and design presentations.

- Integrate immersive technologies such as projection mapping, interactive installations, AR/VR elements, and multimedia storytelling into design concepts.

- Leverage AI-based creative tools and digital visualization technologies to enhance concept development and design efficiency.

- Continuously research global trends in experiential design, museum storytelling, and immersive environments.

- Maintain high standards of creativity, innovation, and technical accuracy across studio deliverables.

Required Skills & Competencies:

- Min 6+ years of experience in visual storytelling, and concept development, creative design, experiential design, exhibition design, museum design, or immersive storytelling projects.

- Experience working on government or institutional experiential projects will be highly preferred with museums, exhibitions, immersive environments, themed spaces, or heritage interpretation projects

- Prior experience in design studios, experiential agencies, or exhibition design firms, film making is a strong advantage.

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in: Design, Fine Arts, Visual Communication, Architecture Exhibition Design or any related creative discipline

- Strong leadership and studio management capabilities with Strong problem-solving and creative thinking abilities.

- Ability to translate complex narratives into engaging spatial experiences.

- Strong presentation and communication skills for client pitches and internal coordination.

- Ability to manage multiple creative projects simultaneously while maintaining design quality and deadlines.

- Hands-on experience with AI-powered design tools and generative creative workflows.

Tools & Software (Preferred):

- Design & Visualization Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe After Effects, etc

- 3D & Visualization Tools: Blender, SketchUp, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Lumion / Unreal Engine (preferred), etc

- AI-Based Creative Tools: Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, Stable Diffusion, Runway AI, DALL-E, AI-assisted concept generation workflows, etc

- Presentation & Collaboration Tools: Figma, Miro, Notion / collaborative planning platforms, , etc