Creative Director, Interactive Experiences

Gigantic Playground, a CourtAvenue company, is a fast-growing creative technology agency that creates immersive and interactive experiences that connect people, places, and products in extraordinary ways. Our unique experience + technology approach blends creativity, immersive storytelling, and product innovation to create dynamic experiences that captivate, engage, and delight.

 

Interactive work only earns its keep when someone actually stops, engages, and remembers it. That's the standard we hold ourselves to, and it's what this role exists to protect. As Creative Director, Interactive Experiences, you'll be the creative owner of everything we build that people touch, tap, walk into, or play with, from event installations to product launch apps to connected retail moments.

You're equally comfortable pitching the big idea in a client boardroom and sitting with a design team debugging why an interaction feels one beat too slow. We're looking for someone who can hold both altitudes at once: setting a creative bar for the whole studio while staying hands-on enough to shape the details that make an experience feel effortless. Your toolkit spans spatial storytelling, sensory and environmental design, and interactive technology, and you know how to weave all three into experiences that hold up whether someone spends five seconds or five minutes with them.

This is a leadership role with real creative stakes. You'll guide a team of designers and technologists, sit at the table with client leadership, and help define what "interactive" means for our studio as the tools and platforms we design for (AR, VR, connected hardware, generative AI, and whatever comes after) keep shifting.

• 10+ years or more in a creative role focused on interactive, digital, or experience design, including several years directly managing a team

• Strong personal taste backed by a portfolio that shows range across interaction design, visual design, and concept development

• Direct experience partnering with enterprise or consumer technology clients, and comfort navigating the layers of stakeholders that come with that kind of account

• Willingness to get into the tools yourself. This isn't a role where you only review other people's Figma files

• A working understanding of what's actually possible on today's hardware and software, so your ideas are ambitious but buildable

• Real, current experience using AI tools as part of your own creative process, not just an interest in the idea of them

• Comfort working across the full arc of a project, from early concept sketches through rapid prototyping to a finished, fabricated, on-site experience

• Familiarity with the broader interactive and immersive landscape (AR, VR, projection, sensor-driven installations) even if your day-to-day tools are mostly digital

• A portfolio piece that clearly moved the needle on how long people engaged with an experience

• Recognition from peers or industry press for work you led

• Clients who ask for you by name when something new and difficult comes up

• Background in large-scale experiential production

• Located in Seattle or San Diego 

Gigantic Playground is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Gigantic Playground recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran, or genetic information.

Gigantic Playground participates in the E-Verify program. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form (I-9) upon hire.