Associate Creative Director

The Agency

Allied Global Marketing is a full-service integrated agency partnering with the world’s leading entertainment, consumer, and lifestyle brands. This role sits within our Brand Experience Team, where we specialize in creating experiential marketing and events that bring ideas to life. We make brands real in the moments that matter most - turning strategy into story, and story into something you can see, touch, and feel. Guided by insight and built with intention, our work fuses creativity with global expertise that turns big ideas into real outcomes.

Location  

We operate a hybrid working model where employees are office based a minimum of one day per week in our office in Dublin. Employees are welcome to use the office 5 days a week.

Where does this role fit within the overall business?
As our Associate Creative Director, Brand Experience, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and leading the creative thinking across our work. You will be responsible for driving strong, original concepts and ensuring those ideas translate seamlessly into compelling brand experiences.

You will work closely with the Creative Director and The Head of Art, helping to elevate the studio’s creative output and guide projects from early conceptual thinking through to live activation. The studio has recently been nominated for both ICAD and Shark Awards, and this role is central to continuing that creative momentum.

The Role
We are searching for a senior creative thinker who blends strategy, creativity and a commitment to excellence across every touchpoint.

We’re looking for a concept led creative who thinks beyond screens and campaigns, someone who sees the whole stage. You lead with ideas, using strategy and insight to shape experiences that connect emotionally and translate seamlessly into the real world. You understand how experiences should look, feel and behave over time, and you bring the design craft needed to ensure those ideas are executed with clarity, consistency and impact.

Here, you’ll shape brand experiences across every touchpoint from physical spaces and retail moments to social channels and immersive digital interactions. You know experience isn’t just seen or touched - it’s felt, remembered, and lived by today’s consumers. In exchange, you’ll get to say ‘I did that’ for some of the biggest brands in the world.

Key Responsibilities

• Help lead the conceptual development of brand experience and experiential projects from brief to activation.
• Originate bold, insight-driven ideas that translate brand and business objectives into compelling experiences.
• Partner closely with Creative Director and Client Leads to shape creative platforms and experiential strategies.
• Guide and inspire designers and specialist collaborators, ensuring ideas are executed with clarity and craft.
• Work collaboratively with production teams and external partners to ensure creative intent carries through to final delivery.
• Present concepts confidently to clients, clearly articulating creative rationale and experience vision.
• Ensure all work meets a high creative standard, balancing ambition with feasibility and production realities.
• Act as a senior creative voice within the studio, helping raise the bar across projects and pitches.
• Serve as a connector across disciplines, ensuring alignment, clarity and creative consistency throughout delivery.

Your Skills

• Experience of working in brand experience/experiential at a senior level.
• Fluent in the usual software such as Adobe CC, PowerPoint, Keynote
• You’re a do’er as well as a thinker, happy to put pen to paper when needed to shape ideas and set the creative standard.
• You enjoy the thrill of presenting to clients and colleagues.
• Proactive and enthusiastic, you’re at the forefront of design, cultural, and technology trends, bringing fresh inspiration and innovation into the studio.
• A team player who leaves ego at the door, happy to roll sleeves up.
• Passionate, agile and cool under pressure.
• You’re organised with a strong sense of responsibility and ownership.
• You believe you’re only as good as your next piece of work.