# Senior Lead, Art Direction

**Company**: Salesforce
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $143,400 - $216,900 annually
**Category**: Marketing
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Salesforce is looking for a Senior Lead, Art Direction to bring creative leadership and hands-on craft to our events portfolio.

The Global Brand & Creative team within Marketing is responsible for our brand and marketing creative. The Events & Experiences Creative function is responsible for how Salesforce shows up in physical spaces , from flagship events and trade shows to brand partnerships, activations, and executive experiences.

**Responsibilities**

- Set and own the art direction vision for assigned events, ensuring every touchpoint , environmental graphics, signage, stage design, activations , reflects a cohesive, on-brand story

- Design event footprints and map user journeys, choreographing how attendees move through and experience a space from arrival to departure

- Translate strategy into experience , turning a marketing or brand strategy into a tangible, well-paced physical narrative

- Direct copy across environmental and wayfinding touchpoints to ensure the event narrative holds together from entrance to exit

- Lead and mentor a team of designers and art directors, providing hands-on creative direction and a consistent bar for craft

- Partner with brand design, copy, producers, and strategists to translate concepts into production-ready creative

- Maintain strict quality control across all design deliverables, catching inconsistencies and detail issues before they reach production

- Travel to events to oversee on-site design execution and setup, making real-time creative and production calls

- Present creative direction and rationale to senior stakeholders, building alignment across cross-functional partners

- Manage multiple concurrent event programs, balancing creative ambition against production timelines and budgets

**Requirements**

- 8+ years of design/art direction experience, with a portfolio spanning event design and brand design

- Demonstrated experience designing event footprints and user journeys for large-scale activations

- Proven experience leading and mentoring designers or art directors

- Deep fluency in environmental and spatial design , stage design, signage, wayfinding, large-format production

- Strong brand design background, with an eye for how identity systems translate into physical space

- Experience directing copy or working closely with copywriters to shape a cohesive event narrative

- A track record of translating strategy into experience , turning briefs into tangible, on-brand spaces

- Meticulous attention to detail and a track record of maintaining quality under tight deadlines

- Confident presenter, comfortable pitching and aligning senior stakeholders

- Willingness and ability to travel extensively to oversee on-site event design and setup

- Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma; familiarity with 3D/rendering tools is a plus

- B2B and/or tech experience is a strong plus

**Benefits**

- Time off programs

- Medical, dental, vision

- Mental health support

- Paid parental leave

- Life and disability insurance

- 401(k)

- Employee stock purchasing program

## Skills

### Required
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Figma
- event design
- brand design
- spatial design
- environmental graphics
- signage
- wayfinding
- large-format production

### Nice to have
- 3D/rendering tools
- B2B
- tech experience

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