What are the responsibilities and job description for the Creative Producer position at Sparks?
About Us
Sparks is a leading global brand experience agency, specializing in the design and execution of award-winning experiences that forge deep connections between brands and audiences. Recognized by Adweek as Experiential Agency of the Year, we bring a unique blend of strategic insight and execution excellence to every brand activation, corporate event, trade show exhibit, and immersive experience. Our commitment to creativity, innovation, and flawless execution drives us to craft impactful experiential marketing solutions that deepen relationships, inspire action, and build trust—all around the world.
Summary
Creative Operations is a dedicated team within Sparks charged with executing outstanding design within experiential environments and campaigns. The Creative Producer will drive creative deliverables and provide creative project management support to both internal and external teams through every phase of our process. This includes: project development, including concept development, experience design, design development, fabrication, quality assurance, installation, and project completion. A Creative Producer plays an integral part of the overall Creative Team. Their role is to help bridge the gap between account and creative teams eliminating roadblocks and ensuring projects stay on-track. This role is eligible to work a hybrid schedule based out of any of the following locations:
Travel up to 25%
What We Offer
The Freeman Company provides benefits that aim to empower our people and their families to thrive mentally, physically, and financially. These are a handful of the types of programs and benefits our full-time people may be eligible for. There may be some variances in specific benefits across regions.
At The Freeman Company, our commitment to diversity and inclusion is helping us to create not only a great place to work, but also an environment where our employees, our customers and our communities around the world can reach their goals and connect with each other. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status and other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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Sparks is a leading global brand experience agency, specializing in the design and execution of award-winning experiences that forge deep connections between brands and audiences. Recognized by Adweek as Experiential Agency of the Year, we bring a unique blend of strategic insight and execution excellence to every brand activation, corporate event, trade show exhibit, and immersive experience. Our commitment to creativity, innovation, and flawless execution drives us to craft impactful experiential marketing solutions that deepen relationships, inspire action, and build trust—all around the world.
Summary
Creative Operations is a dedicated team within Sparks charged with executing outstanding design within experiential environments and campaigns. The Creative Producer will drive creative deliverables and provide creative project management support to both internal and external teams through every phase of our process. This includes: project development, including concept development, experience design, design development, fabrication, quality assurance, installation, and project completion. A Creative Producer plays an integral part of the overall Creative Team. Their role is to help bridge the gap between account and creative teams eliminating roadblocks and ensuring projects stay on-track. This role is eligible to work a hybrid schedule based out of any of the following locations:
- Philadelphia, PA
- Detroit, MI
- Dallas, TX
- Ft Wayne, IN
- Responsible for creative project management on select programs and accounts.
- Manages project workflow on a day-to-day basis - prioritize tasks, identify / anticipate challenges, and drive completion of deadlines.
- Works with and directs creative teams, both internal and outsourced, to translate established brand experience objectives into real-life experiences.
- Collaborates with account leads to determine the scope of work for the Creative team, estimated number of hours per resource and high-level budgeting.
- Eliminates roadblocks and helps to drive all design elements of the project forward.
- Ensures organization of the overall design process.
- Organizes internal meeting cadences for the design team.
- Organizes and facilitates inter-departmental project team kickoffs.
- Serves as a primary point of contact for the creative team on internal and external project communications.
- Helps to guide the creative discussions with clients focusing on the overall strategy of the project.
- Communicates Creative team project status updates to the rest of the team.
- Identifies and improves upon internal workflows and processes, documenting established processes along the way.
- Works with Creative Resourcing to ensure efficient use of design resources.
- Bachelor’s degree plus 5 years of experience in a creative agency setting (agency experience managing cross-functional teams is a plus).
- Solid knowledge of design based technologies and trends.
- Experience working with small to medium-sized teams.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills - you will bridge communications between the design, accounts, and production teams.
- Superb organizational skills and a meticulous attention to detail - you never let anything slip through the cracks.
- Ability to work under tight time constraints on multiple projects in a high growth environment.
- Ability to cultivate trust and collaboration with clients and team members.
- Ability to be patient and focused under tight deadlines.
- Ability to guide teams to create great work.
- Design, event, or technical production background a plus.
- Proficient in Google Drive, Slack and/or Microsoft 365
- Ability to operate within a fast-paced environment
- Understanding of Digital, 3d and 2d creative process and experience with activations is a bonus
Travel up to 25%
What We Offer
The Freeman Company provides benefits that aim to empower our people and their families to thrive mentally, physically, and financially. These are a handful of the types of programs and benefits our full-time people may be eligible for. There may be some variances in specific benefits across regions.
- Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Parental Leave
- Life, Accident and Disability
- Retirement with Company Match
- Paid Time Off
At The Freeman Company, our commitment to diversity and inclusion is helping us to create not only a great place to work, but also an environment where our employees, our customers and our communities around the world can reach their goals and connect with each other. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status and other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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