Role: Creative Director (Experiential) Reports to: Managing Director

Location: Australia Salary: Fixed-Term Contract-

Date: Aug 2026 (6 months) ROLE SUMMARY The Creative Director is the link between world class creative work and the entire agency team. Working alongside Account Service and Production leads, your role is to oversee and elevate the creative output of the agency, ensuring every experiential project - from conception through to execution - meets a world-class, exceptionally polished standard. What you bring to the table visually and creatively shapes the look, feel, image and outcomes for Recent Moon’s experiential live work across Australia.

To succeed in this role, you will be responsible for overseeing the execution of multiple pieces of world class, award-winning, globally celebrated work throughout your contract. (We make it sound so simple, but we know it’s not!) SOME OF YOUR ‘SECRET SAUCE’ TALENTS INCLUDE : A world class aesthetic; you have an incredible eye, the lens through which you see the creative sphere and how that relates to the experiential arena of world-building for brands. A well-connected rolodex; you have additional creative contacts across the industry - 2D designers, 3D designers, art directors, fabricators and beyond - who you can call on to resource any brief. The ability to oversee the creative output of the entire agency, holding every project to a top-tier, world class standard of creative response - regardless of who on the team is leading it day-to-day.

A sound understanding of budgets and materiality, knowing how to shape ideation so that ambitious creative concepts stay commercially deliverable within a client's budget. Your eye for what’s new and what's next; identifying and integrating cultural insights into your creative practice, knowing the difference between an emerging, zeitgeist-soaked trend and the incoming swell of a true cultural shift, along with why and how both matter in experience-led creative work.

Being able to effectively express your ideas visually, both virtually with a deck and in the room with storyboarding and creative materials, knowing that your cultural currency is hinged on your ability to have things really land.

Extensive experience being in the room to pitch, present and sell creative work - both the individual components involved in creating a cohesive experience and the overarching concept, in a way that subscribes others to your vision. Intuitive understanding of the IRL guest journey from look and feel through to flow and form, confidence in your ability to ideate, conceptualise, plan and deliver the required creative assets.

A razor sharp attention to detail, picking up design details that others might miss so as to ensure unwavering consistency of vision and aesthetic across every project you oversee. This role is focused on ideating, conceiving, producing and delivering creative as it relates to experiential live work. Brand activations, launches, special events, pop-ups, festivals, dinners, shows - you name it - it’s all about being an integral part of producing exceptional, memorable and cultural legacy-building experiences for our clients and brand partners.





Your specific responsibilities as it relates to landing the work; Participation in new business briefings; interpreting the creative requirements within a brief or RFP and actively contributing to brainstorming and strategising what, how and who could bring it to life.

Work in collaboration with the Account Service, Strategy and Production teams to develop pitch decks.

Lead the ideation process when responding to new client briefs and pitch proposals for the Australian office - inclusive of building out a comprehensive deck, planning a clear and compelling guest journey and creating strong visuals to express the theme and design of the event.

Assist in the development of content capture briefs.

Your role in ideating and conceiving the work;

Generate ideas and creative treatments that genuinely excite clients and make them expand their perceptions of what New Moon can do to help them achieve their goals, drive tangible results and create cultural legacy-building experiences for their communities and audience.

Understand our clients’ business objectives and how those objectives relate to their target audience, while staying in tune to business issues and market considerations, particularly as it relates to the cultural arena that we are experts in, to assist in generating relevant creative ideas that truly move the needle in tangible, material ways. What you are accountable for when doing the work; Oversee and take accountability for the creative process of every project across the agency from concept through to execution, inclusive of (but not limited to); attending site visits, delegating effectively to appropriate 2D & 3D design resources, being nimble and responsive to changing client needs, budget considerations, production realities or logistic challenges, and overseeing the creative execution onsite at live events. Ensure ideation is always grounded in a clear understanding of budgets and materiality, so that ambitious creative concepts remain commercially deliverable within the client's budget.

Work hand in hand with our Producers and Client Services Director to proactively identify resourcing bottlenecks and ensure all jobs have the correct creative resources to ensure seamless delivery of creative to the client.

Maintain and continually expand a well-connected rolodex of freelance creative talent - including art directors, illustrators, 2D designers, 3D renderers, set designers, content editors, photographers, videographers etc.

- that can be called upon to resource any brief at short notice. Ensure all freelance creatives that are engaged are tracking hours and have confirmed rates to ensure best practice on managing costs tracking and margins on a project.

Taking ownership and full accountability of all creative aspects of a project from start to finish, including the quality and cadence of deliverables, management of resources, budget management and profit margins.

You will be expected to not just share your ideas in a client-facing context, but be completely confident in taking the lead in communicating and presenting your creative work, internally and externally. THE INHERENT QUALITIES WE’RE LOOKING FOR:





Radical collaboration; support a culture and environment that is conducive to collaboration, making sure all stakeholders are heard and respected, giving others the opportunity to participate and contribute in ways that inspire them.

Big leadership energy; knowing the difference between management and leadership, understanding how to lead by example.

An innovative spirit with willingness to try new approaches and ideas.

You are genuinely curious about, and committed to, learning, growth and expansion as a person - not just as it relates to your career track. You are dialled into culture and have fostered your own interests and knowledge in key areas of the cultural landscape. Demonstrating humanity, empathy, compassion and patience with clients, peers, stakeholders and collaborators. CRUCIAL EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS (THAT THERE’S NO WIGGLE ROOM ON)

8+ years experience working within a Creative Department, either agency and/or brand-side, including prior experience operating at Associate Creative Director or Creative Director level. This could be as a Senior Creative, Experiential Designer, Art Director or similar. 5+ years of experiential events experience, encompassing brand activations, launches, pop-ups, dinners, shows, festivals and the like. (Unfortunately, film, TV, content and digital don’t cut it- we’re talking about live events.

Experience working across the fashion, youth culture, luxury, aspirational luxury sector with market leading brands and clients, within the Australian and/or global market. REQUIRED EXPERTISE AND DOCUMENTED CAPABILITIES (SHOW YOUR WORK!) Have two or more of the following pre visualisation skills / creative capabilities: moodboarding, photoshop, sketches (for vendors and clients), mock ups, CAD, rendering, scale plans, styling and prop sourcing.

Ability to image reference, building clear and descriptive mood boards to articulate creative concepts.

A well-connected local rolodex of additional creative contacts - 2D designers (graphic), 3D designers (draftspeople, render talents, industrial designers), rental houses (furniture, smalls and props) and technology, scenic and fabrication partners across Australia - that you can call upon at short notice. THINGS THAT WOULD GIVE YOU AN EDGE ABOUT BUT AREN’T DEALBREAKERS Interior design and architectural design background.

Experience in content, digital, film & TV such as working in set design, content and styling. The ability to work across additional design platforms and programs including but not limited to: InDesign, Keynote, Photoshop, Sketch-up and Rhino.

Experience in identifying, engaging and briefing local content vendors: photographers, cinematographers, editors, stylists, art directors and composers.

Experience using task management software such as Monday.com and Harvest.

Understanding of creative strategy development, strategic ideation, influencer culture or content direction. KEY DETAILS

Location: Australia. This role does require face-time with team members, clients and stakeholders and as such is not a fully-remote or at-large position

Fixed-term contract, 4-6 months, in-house role Working: 3 days per week in the office (Tues-Thurs), with Mondays and Fridays WFH

Contract rate of a competitive contract rate, commensurate with experience Opportunity to make an immediate impact leading creative across the agency’s Australian projects and pitches

📌 Creative Director (Experiential) (Sydney)
🏢 New Moon
📍 Sydney