Senior Design, Experiential Events

Senior Designer, Events

Long Beach, CA

True Anomaly seeks those with the talent and ambition to build the technology that secures space as a warfighting domain.

True Anomaly delivers decisive capabilities for space superiority. We build autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors — enabling the U.S. and its Allies to secure the space environment and counter threats from the ultimate high ground.

True Anomaly's Values

• Be the Offset. We create asymmetric advantages with creativity and ingenuity.
• What Would It Take? We challenge assumptions to deliver ambitious results.
• It's The People. Our team is our competitive advantage and we are better together.

Your Mission

The Senior Designer, Experiential owns the creative development and direction of True Anomaly's events experiences.

You develop experiential concepts and creative direction that make complex technology tangible and create a clear, memorable experience of the company. Working from creative and business strategy, you define how True Anomaly shows up physically at events; the spatial form, narrative journey, and environmental expression. For assigned work, you define the concept, narrative, user journey, visual language and environmental expression, then maintain that creative direction through install and event launch. Our Principal, Experiential & Environmental Design owns the broader vision and standards for True Anomaly's physical expression. You work closely with them and apply and extend that overarching direction within events, partnering with Creative Strategy and Business Development on where and why the company should show up, and with production teams that own the operational planning and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Event Strategy and Creative Partnership
• Event Concepting & Creative Development
• Design Development, Spaces, and Systems
• Production Partnership

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 8-11 years of experience developing creative concepts and directing brand events, experiential activations, conferences, demonstrations, executive gatherings, or other live experiences; or Master's degree and 6 years of relevant experience.
• Portfolio demonstrating strong experiential concepting, creative direction, narrative thinking, and final executed work.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business, audience, and brand strategy into distinctive physical experiences.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary creative teams and directing agencies, designers, fabricators, content partners, and production specialists.
• Strong understanding of spatial experience, user journey, graphics, materials, objects, content, technology, and live moments.
• Comfort working hands-on across concepting, design development, vendor creative direction, and on-site execution. This is a player-coach role: you'll both direct external partners and execute design work yourself as the project demands.
• Deep knowledge of event production, fabrication, AV, logistics, installation, and venue constraints sufficient to make responsible creative decisions.
• Ability to develop creative work within defined budgets and schedules and to make sound tradeoffs without losing the central idea.
• Excellent presentation, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills, with calm judgment when conditions change.
• Willingness to travel and work outside conventional hours when required by an installation or live
• Experience in technology, aerospace, defense, automotive, industrial design, or another technically complex category is helpful but not required.
• Genuine interest in aerospace, defense, or national security is a meaningful signal. Domain expertise is not required; intellectual seriousness about the mission is.

Compensation

• Base Salary: $130,000 - $235,000
• Equity + Benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, HRA/HSA options, PTO and paid holidays, 401K, Parental Leave

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, location, and experience.

Additional Requirements

• Work Location —Successful candidates will be located near Long Beach, CA. While we observe a hybrid work environment, some work must be done on site.