Experience Designer, Meetings & Events

About Us:

At BCD Meetings & Events (BCD M&E), we provide more than meeting and event planning services: we create connections that inspire, motivate and change behavior for our customers. As the world’s most trusted and innovative meetings and events agency, BCD M&E cultivates a culture of people, passion and purpose to drive business forward. 

Headquartered in Chicago, with locations in 50+ countries across the world, BCD M&E’s team of 1,800+ people are committed to sustainability and driving success for our customers, our business and ourselves. Our values are at the heart of everything we do, and we look for people that want to be a part of something special, can rise to our standards and love to bring their unique perspective to the table.

While we can’t guarantee every day will be the best (who can?), we can promise a community of people who genuinely care and lead with empathy, a flexible workplace with awesome perks and challenging work that means something. 

See what life is about at BCD M&E at bcdme.com/careers

About the role:
We are looking for an Experience Designer - aka an XD - to join The Collective. You’ll bridge the worlds of destinations, strategy, and engagement, helping to craft unique experiences and events for our customers, and consulting with them to define their short- and long-term event strategies. You will collaborate across The Collective and within BCD M&E as we develop the account strategy, build innovative and creative service solutions for both new and existing customers, and you will apply a design lens to the process to ensure we’re making the most of their time together. We translate trends and tailor them to each audience and budget; incorporate best practices in sustainability and inclusivity to make events accessible and fun; recommend content and activations that enhance the event; and develop through-threads to connect destination, message and brand.

As an Experience Designer you will:
•    Strategy & Consultation: partner with customers to identify business goals, and develop/implement our solutions  – pre/during/post event.
•    Storytelling: bring destinations and experiences to life in creative proposals and presentations. You will develop, coordinate and manage content and coordinate solution deliverables across internal departments and suppliers.
•    Interdepartmental Collaboration: work closely with the project lead(s) and project team to ensure our solutions address customer needs, are within budget, and can be delivered successfully and on time.
•    Engagement: Develop strategies for …