Associate Resource Director, Creative

Job description

NVE is a brand experience and production agency dedicated to building ideas rooted in culture and guided by the principle that ‘The Right Moment Will Transform Someone Forever.’ NVE’s team of creatives, strategists and producers develop insight-driven ideas rooted in culture to convert consumer attention into commitment, action, and brand loyalty. Summary of Position: The Associate Director of Creative Resource Management is a senior, hands-on leader within NVE’s centralized resourcing team, responsible for overseeing strategy and execution exclusively for the Creative department. This role bridges high-level workforce planning with day-to-day staffing decisions, ensuring creative teams (including visual designers, spatial/environmental designers, copywriters, art directors, 3D visualizers, and creative directors) are thoughtfully cast, sustainably balanced, and aligned with both business goals and human needs. Reporting to the VP, Resource Director with a dotted line to Creative Leadership, this role partners closely with Creative Leadership, Accounts, Strategy, Production, and Finance to translate pipeline and forecasts into actionable staffing plans. This is a highly collaborative role for someone who deeply understands the nuances of the creative process in experiential marketing, operates confidently in ambiguity, and brings both rigor and empathy to resourcing decisions. Success in This Role Looks Like: Creative resourcing runs smoothly, consistently, and proactively across all agency creative projects Creative team members achieve target utilization, billability, and balanced workloads across experiential, branding, and strategic design initiatives Leadership has clear visibility into Creative capacity, utilization, skill set alignment, and upcoming bandwidth risks Creative team members feel supported, guided, intentionally cast, and aligned in how staffing decisions are made Resourcing is trusted as a strategic partner by Creative leadership, ensuring the right creative talent is matched to the right briefs based on expertise, passion, and availability. The ability to balance people-first decision-making with creative excellence and financial realities Role Priorities: Creative Resourcing Leadership & Strategy Own the resourcing strategy for the Creative department, translating agency-wide resourcing frameworks into department-specific execution Ser…