Careers at VIVA Creative
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We design and produce events, content, and brand experiences for audiences around the world, from our studios outside Washington DC.
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VIVA Creative designs and produces experiences and content that inspire, engage, and transform. From product launches and festivals to corporate events, exhibitions, activations, digital experiences, and original television production, our work intersects business, entertainment, politics, and technology, touching audiences across the globe. Please explore VIVA Creative career opportunities here.
Social Media Manager & Brand Storyteller
Rockville, Maryland · Full-time · In person
You are a creative, strategic, self-starting video storyteller who loves to capture, edit, and share the moments that matter, and you’re looking for a fun, creative company with a great story to tell.
ABOUT THE ROLE
VIVA Creative is hiring a social media manager who is, above all, a strong video storyteller. You’d own our channels and their content, showing off the work we make for clients, the in-office culture behind it, and the people who make it happen. You’d also be an in-house video maker, producing brand assets we use well beyond social.
WHAT YOU’D DO
Own our social channels: strategy, calendar, publishing, community, and reporting. Concept, shoot, and edit multiple reels a week at a high standard. This is the heart of the job. Turn finished events and productions into compelling short-form stories. Document our fun in-office culture. Capture behind-the-scenes content in our studios. Produce internal and external brand video: sizzles, case studies, short films, whatever the moment calls for. Stay on top of platform trends and know which ones are worth our time.
WHAT YOU BRING
Strong video craft: you shoot well, light well, and edit with polish and pace. You’re as comfortable with a camera in your hands as in an edit timeline. You work at both ends of the spectrum, fast phone content one day and scripted brand film the next. You think strategically about audience and story, not just output. Experience running social for a brand, agency, or established channel, with work you can show. Recent grads with this experience are encouraged to apply.
WHO YOU ARE
Creative and self-starting: you see a moment worth capturing, dream up clever, catchy, inventive ways to film and share it, and make it happen at agency speed. Organized enough to keep a content calendar and stick to it. Solid business acumen, and a love of analytics to understand what moves the needle. Fast-moving and unfazed by a live event’s chaos. And eager to learn everything you can about the many experiential art forms we create.
WHY WE’RE IN PERSON
This role is fully in person in our Rockville studios, not remote or hybrid. We’re a tech-forward agency that uses AI every day in transformational and innovative ways, but ours is a human business. Ideas come from people in a room together: the half-formed thought said out loud, the sketch on the back of a page, the question that turns into the answer. We like raw brainstorming, critical thinking, discourse, prototyping, and iteration of ideas. That’s why every piece of our work carries a human signature.
COMPENSATION
Salary commensurate with experience, plus benefits.
TO APPLY
Send your résumé, reel, and links to accounts you’ve run to careers@vivacreative.com with “Social Media Manager” in the subject line.
ABOUT VIVA CREATIVE
VIVA Creative is a worldwide leader in experiential marketing, event production, and content creation. We are a creative group of thinkers, doers, and believers in the power of bringing people together for good. Headquartered near Washington, D.C., with our own cutting-edge content studios, we have produced events, content, and experiences across the globe and earned hundreds of industry awards. Come feel the heart, soul, and enthusiasm of creative people doing what they love in pursuit of the highest standard, smiles and high-fives included.
VIVA Creative is an equal opportunity employer.
Proposal and Business Development Associate
Rockville, Maryland · Full-time · In person
You are a curious, strategic, sharp-writing idea person who loves to dream up concepts, craft stories, and build pitches that win new business. You’re looking for a company that will mentor you, stretch you, and put your business acumen in front of clients.
ABOUT THE ROLE
At VIVA Creative, we focus on extraordinary client service. New client relationships matter, so our proposals are highly personalized, creative, and strategic: they start by listening to a client, understanding their needs, and answering with a concept no one else would bring, one that measurably improves their organization. You’ll help shape that work from the first read of a brief to the finished pitch, built in Keynote, InDesign, HTML, new AI tools, or whatever format serves the idea best.
WHAT YOU’D DO
Dig into each client’s objectives, then help develop the strategy and big creative idea that answers them. Shape the storyline and write persuasive, well-crafted copy. Design presentations and contribute to art direction and visual concepting. Research clients, audiences, and competitors, pulling many kinds of information into one sharp point of view. Manage timelines, versions, and every moving piece so nothing falls through the cracks.
WHAT YOU BRING
A desire to be part of a vibrant, in-office creative culture. A degree in marketing, communications, design, business, or something adjacent, and relevant experience. Strong writing, structural thinking, and a good eye. Solid knowledge of AI tools, plus eagerness to learn more and innovate. Experience in events or experiential marketing, and prior proposal or pitch work.
WHO YOU ARE
More than a creative: you’re a strategic consultant who loves solving business problems and finding opportunities. You bring abundant ideas and the insight to know which ones will help clients succeed. A great listener who gets to the heart of what a client needs. Poised, dependable, and detail-oriented, with a strong work ethic and a can-do attitude.
WHY WE’RE IN PERSON
This role is fully in person in our Rockville studios, not remote or hybrid. We’re a tech-forward agency that uses AI every day in transformational and innovative ways, but ours is a human business. Ideas come from people in a room together: the half-formed thought said out loud, the sketch on the back of a page, the question that turns into the answer. We like raw brainstorming, critical thinking, discourse, prototyping, and iteration of ideas. That’s why every piece of our work carries a human signature.
COMPENSATION
Salary commensurate with experience, plus benefits.
TO APPLY
Send your résumé and one piece of work you’re proud of (a deck, concept, or writing sample) to careers@vivacreative.com with “Proposal Associate” in the subject line.
ABOUT VIVA CREATIVE
VIVA Creative is a worldwide leader in experiential marketing, event production, and content creation. We are a creative group of thinkers, doers, and believers in the power of bringing people together for good. Headquartered near Washington, D.C., with our own cutting-edge content studios, we have produced events, content, and experiences across the globe and earned hundreds of industry awards. Come feel the heart, soul, and enthusiasm of creative people doing what they love in pursuit of the highest standard, smiles and high-fives included.
VIVA Creative is an equal opportunity employer.
Senior Event Producer
Rockville, Maryland · Full-time · In person
You are a seasoned, unflappable, detail-obsessed producer who loves to take on the impossible, build the plan, and make it happen with your own hands, and you’re looking for a company that does big, ambitious work across events, content, digital, and immersive. This role is perfect for you.
ABOUT THE ROLE
You’d work side by side with senior executives as a dedicated producer on some of our most ambitious and demanding productions. This is a hands-on seat at the center of the work. You take an ambitious idea and figure out exactly how it gets built, funded, staffed, scheduled, and delivered. When something has never been done before, you work out how.
WHAT YOU’D DO
Produce across every discipline we touch: live events, content, digital, and immersive. Own budgets, schedules, vendors, crews, and logistics end to end. Translate creative ambition into a production plan with numbers behind it. Solve problems in real time, on site and under pressure. Serve as a senior executive’s right hand, anticipating what’s needed before it’s asked for. Track every detail while keeping the whole picture in view.
WHO YOU ARE
You’re conversant across event production, content production, digital, and immersive, with substantive experience to back it up. You’re relentlessly detail-oriented. Where others find a million reasons something can’t be done, you find a million ways it can, and show exactly how. You love a challenge and you love digging in. You may have reached the level where some people stop touching the work and only direct it. That’s not you. You get satisfaction from being in it, watching something come to life because you made it happen.
EXPERIENCE
Seven or more years producing across live events, content, digital, or immersive work, with depth in at least one area and fluency across the rest. You’ve owned substantial budgets and can defend every line. You’ve led crews, managed vendors, and been on site when things went sideways and sorted them out. Travel and irregular hours during production periods are familiar territory. You’re comfortable with AI and production technology as part of how the work gets done.
WHY WE’RE IN PERSON
This role is fully in person in our Rockville studios. It is not remote and not hybrid. We’re a tech-forward agency and we use AI every day, but ours is a human business. Ideas come from people in a room together: the half-formed thought said out loud, the sketch on the back of a page, the argument that turns into the answer. AI is a tool. The judgment and the taste are ours, and every piece of work carries a human signature.
COMPENSATION
Salary commensurate with experience, plus benefits.
TO APPLY
Send your résumé and a short list of productions you owned, with your role and the budget range, to careers@vivacreative.com with “Senior Producer” in the subject line.
ABOUT VIVA CREATIVE
VIVA Creative is a worldwide leader in experiential marketing, event production, and content creation. We are a creative group of thinkers, doers, and believers in the power of bringing people together for good. Headquartered near Washington, D.C., with our own cutting-edge content studios, we have produced events, content, and experiences across the globe and earned hundreds of industry awards. Come feel the heart, soul, and enthusiasm of creative people doing what they love in pursuit of the highest standard, smiles and high-fives included.
VIVA Creative is an equal opportunity employer.
Senior Designer / Art Director
Rockville, Maryland · Full-time · In person
You are a versatile, fast, craft-driven designer who loves to make everything from logos to hundred-foot screens, and you’re looking for a company that hands you a new creative challenge every week. This role is perfect for you.
ABOUT THE ROLE
VIVA Creative is hiring a senior designer who can design anything. A single project might need a logo, a hundred-foot screen graphic, floor decals, a flower wall, a stage design, printed collateral, and a run of swag. We need someone who can move across all of it without losing quality or a sense of humor.
WHAT YOU’D DESIGN
Event branding and identity systems, including logos and their full expression across an experience. Large-format screen graphics, from single screens to massive multi-screen environments. Stage and scenic graphics, and high-resolution prints built for scale. Environmental graphics: signage, wayfinding, floor decals, wall treatments, photo moments, installations. Printed collateral, invitations, and programs. Swag, merchandise, and premiums. Digital and social assets. And VIVA’s own materials: proposals, pitch decks, and brand work where our credibility is on the line.
WHAT YOU BRING
Senior-level experience with a portfolio that shows range, not one aesthetic repeated. Deep craft in the Adobe suite, plus fluency with presentation tools like Keynote. Technical understanding of production: resolutions, bleeds, color, substrates, pixel maps, and what a file has to be so the thing gets built right. Experience with large-format and environmental work specifically, because how a design behaves at fifty feet is not how it behaves on a screen. A strong typographic eye and serious identity-design chops.
WHO YOU ARE
Versatile by temperament: you like the variety rather than tolerating it. You can art direct a concept and also sit down and make the thing yourself. You’re fast without being sloppy, organized with your files and your time, and calm when a client changes direction two days before load-in. You take feedback well and hold a point of view when it matters.
ON AI
We want you actively using and learning everything the AI graphics tools offer. Explore them, push them, bring us what you find. But this job is not about making something pretty in an AI app. It’s about knowing how a large-scale banner actually gets printed, how a mural reads on a hundred-foot facade, what a file has to be, and how the thing survives contact with the real world. That’s hands-on design knowledge, and there is no faking it. You have to be a true designer and artist first, fluent in many physical modalities and rooted in craft. AI makes a great designer faster and more expansive. It does not make someone a designer. If you can’t create something amazing without it, you won’t create something amazing with it.
WHY WE’RE IN PERSON
This role is fully in person in our Rockville studios. It is not remote and not hybrid. We’re a tech-forward agency and we use AI every day, but ours is a human business. Ideas come from people in a room together: the half-formed thought said out loud, the sketch on the back of a page, the argument that turns into the answer. AI is a tool. The judgment and the taste are ours, and every piece of work carries a human signature.
COMPENSATION
Salary commensurate with experience, plus benefits.
TO APPLY
Send your résumé and portfolio, with at least one large-format or environmental project, to careers@vivacreative.com with “Senior Designer” in the subject line.
ABOUT VIVA CREATIVE
VIVA Creative is a worldwide leader in experiential marketing, event production, and content creation. We are a creative group of thinkers, doers, and believers in the power of bringing people together for good. Headquartered near Washington, D.C., with our own cutting-edge content studios, we have produced events, content, and experiences across the globe and earned hundreds of industry awards. Come feel the heart, soul, and enthusiasm of creative people doing what they love in pursuit of the highest standard, smiles and high-fives included.
VIVA Creative is an equal opportunity employer.
Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Rockville, Maryland · Full-time · In person
You are a fast, resourceful, people-first builder who loves to solve problems, ship tools people use immediately, and teach others along the way. You’re looking for an innovative, fast-moving company that puts AI to work inside a creative, human business.
ABOUT THE ROLE
This is not a back-office tech job. You’d be embedded with our creative, production, and business teams, building the AI tools they need while the work is happening. When a team hits a problem, you’re in the room solving it, not taking a ticket and coming back in three weeks. Your job is to make sure every team gets the most out of the tools we’ve invested in… today.
WHAT YOU’D DO
Map the problem before you build: run discovery with a team, understand their workflow, and define what success looks like. Build project-specific and team-specific AI tools that fit how each group actually works. Extend our enterprise context layer, capturing company knowledge, meetings, and decisions so they’re usable across everything we do, integrated with our AI environment and the rest of our stack so nothing lives in a silo. Prototype fast, then move to production. We don’t want a graveyard of impressive demos, we want tools that impact our business daily. Train and coach our people with hands-on sessions and real examples, so every deployment makes the next one smarter.
WHO YOU ARE
You have meaningful hands-on experience building with AI. The field is young, and we care far more about what you’ve built than about a number on a résumé. You’re comfortable with APIs, automation, integrations, and scripting. You explain technical things to non-technical people with clarity, and you enjoy teaching. You’re resourceful and fast, and you’d rather build a working v1 today than a perfect thing next month. You’re energized by being close to creative work and its pace, and you love the buzz of an energetic office.
ON LEVELS AND TEAMS
We’re hiring at multiple levels. Whether you’re earlier in your career but clearly capable, or further along and ready to lead this function, tell us where you think you fit and we’ll figure it out together. We’re also open to hiring more than one person. If you already work as a small AI team of two or three who’ve built together, we’ll talk about bringing all of you on, with each person evaluated independently.
WHY WE’RE IN PERSON
This role is fully in person in our Rockville studios. We use AI every day, but ours is a human business. Ideas come from people in a room together: a half-formed thought said out loud, a sketch on the back of a page, a question that turns into the answer.
COMPENSATION
Salary commensurate with experience, plus benefits.
TO APPLY
Send your résumé and real examples of what you’ve built to careers@vivacreative.com with “AI Engineer” in the subject line.
ABOUT VIVA CREATIVE
VIVA Creative is a worldwide leader in experiential marketing, event production, and content creation. We are a creative group of thinkers, doers, and believers in the power of bringing people together for good. Headquartered near Washington, D.C., with our own cutting-edge content studios, we have produced events, content, and experiences across the globe and earned hundreds of industry awards. Come feel the heart, soul, and enthusiasm of creative people doing what they love in pursuit of the highest standard, smiles and high-fives included.
VIVA Creative is an equal opportunity employer.
Business Development & Creative Intern
Rockville, Maryland · Part-time · Paid · For-credit eligible · In person
You are a curious, creative student or recent grad who loves to research, write, and design, and wants to see how big ideas win new business. You’re looking for a company where you’ll be mentored, learn, and grow.
ABOUT THE ROLE
At VIVA Creative, we focus on extraordinary client service, and every new client relationship starts with a great proposal. Our interns work alongside our business development team: researching, building decks, drafting concepts, and preparing personalized, strategic proposals.
WHAT YOU’D DO
You’ll support our business development team wherever the work needs you, with real responsibility on client-facing projects. One day that means pulling research insights and data. The next, it’s building mood boards, brainstorming ideas, or drafting copy for a pitch. You’ll see from the inside how an agency wins work. Along the way, you’ll learn how AI tools help a creative team work faster and smarter, and you’ll innovate alongside VIVA colleagues.
WHAT YOU BRING
A desire to be part of a vibrant, in-office creative culture. Current enrollment in, or recent graduation from, a program in marketing, business, communications, design, or a related field. Exceptional writing, business acumen, and a great design eye. Comfort with Keynote, InDesign, and AI-generated graphics and slides.
WHO YOU ARE
A great listener and a fast learner. Reliable, organized, detail-oriented, and very resourceful, with a strong work ethic and a can-do attitude.
WHY WE’RE IN PERSON
This role is fully in person in our Rockville studios, not remote or hybrid. We’re a tech-forward agency that uses AI every day in transformational and innovative ways, but ours is a human business. Ideas come from people in a room together: the half-formed thought said out loud, the sketch on the back of a page, the question that turns into the answer. We like raw brainstorming, critical thinking, discourse, prototyping, and iteration of ideas. That’s why every piece of our work carries a human signature.
COMPENSATION
Entry-level compensation. Academic credit is also available.
TO APPLY
Send your résumé and a short note on why this internship interests you to careers@vivacreative.com with “VIVA Intern” in the subject line.
ABOUT VIVA CREATIVE
VIVA Creative is a worldwide leader in experiential marketing, event production, and content creation. We are a creative group of thinkers, doers, and believers in the power of bringing people together for good. Headquartered near Washington, D.C., with our own cutting-edge content studios, we have produced events, content, and experiences across the globe and earned hundreds of industry awards. Come feel the heart, soul, and enthusiasm of creative people doing what they love in pursuit of the highest standard, smiles and high-fives included.
VIVA Creative is an equal opportunity employer.