What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Creative position at Squint Opera?
Summary
We're looking for a seasoned, multidisciplinary creative with a passion for shaping big ideas and a flair for narrative-driven storytelling and cutting-edge design. You'll work closely with the Creative Director and Producers, interpreting and translating briefs into creative visions and contributing to delivering high-impact experiences across digital and physical formats for exhibition projects in the cultural and brand sectors. Whether it's 2D, 3D, print, or interactive media, your work will influence audience experiences.
Main Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with the Creative Director, Producers, and cross-disciplinary teams to transform ideas into high-quality, deliverable content that doesn't just look good but tells a story, creates an experience, and leaves an impression.
- Provide hands-on art direction to junior creatives and contractors for various projects, including film (live action, CG, VFX, animation), interactive media, and experiential design.
- Attend client meetings, interpret briefs, and build strong narratives and achievable creative visions for a wide range of deliverables, including (but not limited to) creative treatments, storyboards, spatial design, script writing, creating brief decks, and style frames.
- Be comfortable leading visual direction from conception through execution, ensuring the creative vision aligns with client objectives and our studio's high standards.
- Work with Producers to manage timelines and project reviews.
- Create presentation materials for existing projects and new business.
Character Traits
Qualification / Experience
Required]
Desirable]
Outcomes
Candidates must be eligible to work in the US without work authorization. Qualified candidates should submit their resume and portfolio with their application. Unfortunately, applications without portfolios will not be considered.
Salary Pay Range
85,000-$100,000 USD
Hours
This is a full-time position.
Our working hours are 9 : 30am - 6 : 00pm [Monday through Friday, with one hour for lunch]
We currently have a hybrid approach to working with a mixture of in-house and remote days.
Benefits
This is just a snapshot of some of the perks you can expect at Squint.
About Squint / Opera
Squint / Opera is a leading creative studio which bridges the worlds of architecture, design, media, and technology to create compelling, narrative-driven experiences. As experts in blending digital media with physical reality, we help our clients craft digital content to immerse their audiences and communicate big ideas.
Squint was founded in London in 2001, by four young friends who wanted to help visionary thinkers and institutions make the radical a reality. For more than 20 years, we have delivered projects in every corner of the globe and for a wide range of clients across architecture, government, real estate, museums, and attractions.
Squint / Opera is now part of Journey, a leading innovation and design agency who specialise in crafting compelling experiences across the physical and digital realms. Together, Squint / Opera and Journey create the first agency with proven expertise blending the physical and virtual worlds at a global scale.
Our Values
We seek employees who inherently represent our values :
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We want to create a positive impact on a global scale. And to do that, we know that the people at Squint / Opera have to reflect all global lives and identities. No matter your background, identity, or even if your experience doesn't exactly match but you think you could still be successful in this role - we'd love to hear from you!
We work flexible hours, we support remote working, and if that doesn't quite work, we will definitely listen to what will. We're striving to create a place where all feel valued and welcome - and would love to hear how we could do that for you.
LI-Hybrid
Salary : $85,000 - $100,000
