Motive is a dynamic agency and creative collective operating at the speed of culture. We’re a collective of deep thinkers, creative makers, cultural connoisseurs, and executional aces. We create meaningful engagements between brands and their audiences, cultivating relationships that drive tangible results for our clients. And we do it with sharp strategy and powerful creative executed across all the media and touch-points key to our targets’ lives.

As pioneers in content, digital engagement, and innovative experiential programs, Motive fosters a culture where individuals stretch their creative and executional muscles daily. If this sounds like a place you would thrive, let’s see if we can make something happen.

ACCOUNT DIRECTOR 

We are seeking an Account Director with deep expertise in experiential marketing and sponsorship activation to serve as the day-to-day account lead and driving force behind a high-profile hospitality and fan engagement program on behalf of a major sports property. You will guide sponsorship strategy, translate partnership assets into breakthrough experiences, and oversee the end-to-end execution of a large-scale experiential ecosystem.

This is a highly visible role requiring a leader who thrives in complex, fast-moving environments and can deliver world-class experiences on a global stage.

KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Client Leadership & Account Management

• Lead day-to-day client relationships with confidence, authority, and strategic perspective.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior client stakeholders, as well as key external partners (leagues, governing bodies, rights holders).
• Serve as a trusted advisor, translating business objectives into impactful experiential and sponsorship strategies.
• Represent Motive in a highly visible role on a marquee global program.

Sponsorship & Experiential Strategy

• Translate sponsorship rights, assets, and agreements into compelling, experience-led marketing platforms.
• Identify opportunities to maximize partnership value through innovative fan engagement and hospitality experiences.
• Collaborate with Strategy and Creative teams to ensure ideas are insight-driven, differentiated, and executable at scale.

Experiential Program Leadership

• Oversee the end-to-end execution of large-scale experiential activations, including complex builds, environments, and live event ecosystems.
• Partner closely with production, fabrication, and operations teams to deliver best-in-class experiences.
• Manage integrated work streams across experiential, content, digital, and social.
• Ensure all programs are delivered on time, on budget, and at the highest level of quality.

Onsite Leadership & Execution

• Serve as a senior leader onsite during key program moments, including events and installations.
• Manage clients and stakeholders in real time, troubleshoot issues, and ensure flawless delivery under pressure.
• Lead cross-functional teams through high-stakes, live environments.

Business Growth & Team Leadership

• Identify opportunities to grow the business within the account and broader sports/experiential space.
• Lead, mentor, and inspire internal teams across disciplines.
• Foster collaboration across internal and external partners to drive best-in-class work.

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

• 10+ years of integrated agency experience, with a strong focus on experiential marketing and live events.
• Proven experience leading large-scale experiential programs, including complex builds and live environments.
• Deep expertise in sports partnerships and sponsorship ecosystems, including rights holders, leagues, and governing bodies.
• Experience working on global sporting events such as Olympics or Paralymics strongly preferred.
• Strong background in hospitality and VIP experience management.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex programs with multiple stakeholders and moving parts.
• Experience scoping and managing large budgets; procurement experience a plus.
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing and mentoring teams.
• A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to thrive in high-pressure environments.
• Passion for culturally relevant, experience-driven marketing.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Willingness to travel and be onsite for key program milestones and events.
• Flexibility to work non-standard hours as required by live event schedules and global timelines.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Motive is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We offer an inspiring working environment and competitive benefits, including health, dental, vision, matching 401k, unlimited flex time off, and more.

The starting salary for this position is between $115,000 and $145,000 annually, based on experience.

Motive is a dynamic agency and creative collective operating at the speed of culture. We’re a collective of deep thinkers, creative makers, cultural connoisseurs, and executional aces. We create meaningful engagements between brands and their audiences, cultivating relationships that drive tangible results for our clients. And we do it with sharp strategy and powerful creative executed across all the media and touch-points key to our targets’ lives.

As pioneers in the area of content, digital engagement, and innovative experiential programs, and award winners for work in TV, event, digital and social, Motive has created a culture where every individual is given an opportunity to stretch and flex their creative and executional muscles daily. We are a team of hard-working, fast-moving, energetic, passionate, driven, straight-talking creative thinkers. We like being challenged and we love the collaboration necessary to overcome the challenges and succeed.

If this sounds like a place you would thrive, let’s see if we can make something happen.

DIRECTOR, MOBILE TOUR OPERATIONS + PRODUCTION

Location: Denver, Chicago or New York City

Motive is looking for a Director, Experiential Mobile Tour Operations & Production to lead and scale our national marketing and brand mobile and sampling tour practice. This is a senior role for someone who blends creative problem-solving, technical production expertise, and operational excellence—someone who can architect the vision, steer the logistics, and oversee the execution of high-impact touring programs across the country.

If you live at the intersection of strategy, engineering, fabrication, operations, and experiential storytelling, this is your playground.

What You’ll Do

Mobile Tour Strategy & Leadership

• Define and drive the long-term vision, growth strategy, and SOPs for Motive’s Experiential Mobile Tour department.
  
  
• Oversee the design, engineering, and fabrication of custom experiential mobile touring assets—from trailers and up-fitted vehicles to pop-up structures—ensuring compliance with all technical and regulatory standards.
  
  
• Build complex national routing plans that consider demographics, drive times, event calendars, permitting, and on-the-ground logistics.
  
  
• Manage specialized vendors and oversee maintenance, storage, and lifecycle planning for dedicated tour assets.
  
  

Production Management & Execution

• Lead on-site execution across mobile programs, including install, show flow, event operations, and strike.
  
  
• Plan and manage site services, power, safety considerations, and operational needs unique to mobile environments.
  
  
• Oversee staffing for tours—hiring, training, and managing Tour Managers, CDL Drivers, and field staff.
  
  

Cross-Team Collaboration

• Partner closely with Account, Creative, and Finance teams from kickoff through reconciliation.
  
  
• Work with Creative to scout locations, shape space plans, and value-engineer concepts without compromising vision.
  
  
• Lead scoping for mobile programs, translating strategic direction into tactical plans and detailed estimates.
  
  

Budgeting & Financial Stewardship

• Manage budget development, approvals, and day-to-day financial oversight for six- and seven-figure programs.
  
  
• Track expenditures in real time, forecast accurately, and ensure timely, precise reconciliation.
  
  
• Maintain profitability while advocating for smart solutions and high production value.
  
  

Team Leadership & Development

• Mentor production coordinators and associate producers, serving as a subject-matter authority in mobile tour best practices.
  
  
• Foster a collaborative, solutions-focused, high-standards culture within the Brand Experience team.
  
  
• Contribute to pitches, brainstorms, and broader agency initiatives.
  
  

What Success Looks Like

• You are the subject-matter expert that Account, Creative, Finance, and production peers turn to first.
  
  
• Your tours run smoothly, safely, and efficiently—from pre-production through reconciliation.
  
  
• You elevate experiential concepts by grounding them in technical feasibility and engineering excellence.
  
  
• You lead vendors confidently and manage high-stakes relationships with clarity and authority.
  
  
• Your mentorship strengthens the team and creates future leaders in the production discipline.
  
  

What You Bring

• 8+ years in experiential production, with deep experience producing national mobile tours and complex fabrication builds.
  
  
• Expertise in DOT regulations, commercial driving requirements, multi-market routing, and permitting.
  
  
• Proven success managing large-scale budgets, fast-moving timelines, and complex logistics.
  
  
• Ability to review and critique technical drawings, engineering plans, and electrical schematics.
  
  
• Strong communication and relationship management skills, with experience navigating senior clients and sophisticated vendors.
  
  
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, calm under pressure, and naturally solutions-focused.
  
  

Motive is an equal opportunity employer! We believe that a diverse team makes us stronger and smarter.

Motive recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. We offer an inspiring working environment and great benefits, including health, dental, vision, matching 401-k, unlimited flex time off, and more. The starting salary for this position is between $100,000 and $135,000 annually, based on experience.

Motive has a clear vision: to be a creative leader where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, to stay and do their best work. We know our company succeeds only through the hard work and dedication of our passionate and creative employees.

Motive is a dynamic agency and creative collective operating at the speed of culture. We’re a collective of deep thinkers, creative makers, cultural connoisseurs, and executional aces. We create meaningful engagements between brands and their audiences, cultivating relationships that drive tangible results for our clients. And we do it with sharp strategy and powerful creative executed across all the media and touch-points key to our targets’ lives.

As pioneers in the area of content, digital engagement, and innovative experiential programs, and award winners for work in TV, event, digital and social, Motive has created a culture where every individual is given an opportunity to stretch and flex their creative and executional muscles daily. We are a team of hard-working, fast-moving, energetic, passionate, driven, straight-talking creative thinkers. We like being challenged and we love the collaboration necessary to overcome the challenges and succeed.

If this sounds like a place you would thrive, let’s see if we can make something happen.

SR. ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

Location: Denver or Chicago

Motive is looking for a Senior Account Executive who is ready to take ownership of integrated campaigns, drive client success, and help guide internal teams toward exceptional creative execution. You’ll partner closely with clients and internal teams across traditional, digital, social, experiential, and promotional projects—ensuring work is delivered on time, on brief, and at the highest standard.

If you thrive on balancing strategy, process, and client relationships, and enjoy mentoring junior team members while keeping complex projects running smoothly, this is the role for you.

What You’ll Do (Key Responsibilities)

• Serve as a primary point of contact for day-to-day client needs, building trust and confidence through responsiveness and strategic thinking.

• Translate client objectives into clear, actionable creative briefs that inspire both strategy and execution.

• Collaborate with creative and strategy teams to ensure work aligns with business goals, participating in ideation sessions and pitch development.

• Lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from kick-off through delivery, managing timelines, scopes, budgets, and delegated tasks.

• Anticipate client and project needs, recommending improvements or pivots to keep campaigns on track.

• Own project-level Statements of Work (SOWs), ensuring alignment with deliverables and communicating adjustments as needed.

• Mentor and guide junior account team members, fostering a collaborative, proactive team environment.

• Contribute to internal process improvements, team alignment, and agency-wide best practices.

What You Bring (Candidate Requirements)

• 5+ years of integrated agency experience, ideally with CPG or consumer brands.

• Strong knowledge of traditional, digital, social, experiential, and promotional marketing tactics.

• Proven ability to manage multiple clients, campaigns, and timelines simultaneously.

• Experience managing budgets, scopes, and internal resources with accuracy and foresight.

• Confident presenting work and ideas to both clients and internal stakeholders.

• Familiarity with project management platforms such as Workamajig is a plus.

• Collaborative mindset, proactive problem-solving approach, and a drive to elevate work and team performance.

Who You Are

• A steady, trusted leader for both clients and internal teams.

• A proactive problem-solver who anticipates challenges before they escalate.

• A clear communicator who provides guidance, sets direction, and inspires confidence.

• Someone passionate about integrated marketing, delivering results, and mentoring others to grow their skills.

• A team player committed to creating high-quality work while raising the bar for yourself and those around you.

Motive is an equal opportunity employer! We believe that a diverse team makes us stronger and smarter.

Motive recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. The starting salary for this position is between $65k and $80k annually, based on experience and location. We offer an inspiring working environment and great benefits, including low-cost health, dental, and vision plans; unlimited paid time off, 401k with annual match, an employee stock ownership program and more. 

Motive has a clear vision: to be a creative leader where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, to stay and do their best work. We know our company succeeds only through the hard work and dedication of our passionate and creative employees.

Motive is a dynamic agency and creative collective operating at the speed of culture. We’re a collective of deep thinkers, creative makers, cultural connoisseurs, and executional aces. We create meaningful engagements between brands and their audiences, cultivating relationships that drive tangible results for our clients. And we do it with sharp strategy and powerful creative executed across all the media and touch-points key to our targets’ lives.As pioneers in the area of content, digital engagement, and innovative experiential programs, and award winners for work in TV, event, digital and social, Motive has created a culture where every individual is given an opportunity to stretch and flex their creative and executional muscles daily. We are a team of hard-working, fast-moving, energetic, passionate, driven, straight-talking creative thinkers. We like being challenged and we love the collaboration necessary to overcome the challenges and succeed.

If this sounds like a place you would thrive, let’s see if we can make something happen.

Account Executive

Location: Denver or Chicago

Motive is looking for an Account Executive who’s ready to jump into the heart of integrated marketing and push great work forward every single day. In this role, you’re the essential link between our clients and internal teams—helping drive projects from brief to delivery, supporting strategic thinking, and keeping timelines, budgets, and communication running smoothly.

If you love solving problems, organizing many moving parts, supporting big ideas, and being part of a collaborative, fast-moving team, you’ll thrive here.

What You’ll Do (Key Responsibilities)

Client Partnership

• Manage and support day-to-day client communication with clarity, professionalism, and responsiveness.

• Build strong, trust-based relationships with client partners.

• Translate client needs into clear internal next steps—balancing what’s right for the client and what’s right for the work.

Project & Process Ownership

• Support multiple workstreams across your team, with varying levels of ownership and responsibility.

• Own specific projects and workstreams from briefing through delivery.

• Manage timelines, deliverables, and budgets to keep everything on track.

• Proactively flag risks, anticipate challenges, and problem-solve with the broader team.

Financial Stewardship

• Support budget tracking, reporting, and overall project financial health.

• Process invoices, manage POs, and maintain accurate documentation.

• Begin SOW development training, learning how to build and manage project-level scopes.

• If applicable, begin using tools like Decideware confidently and effectively.

Creative Collaboration

• Work closely with creative, strategy, production, and other studios to bring ideas from concept to execution.

• Participate in brainstorms, concept reviews, and work sessions.

• Help ensure the final output delivers on the creative intention and client expectations.

Integrated Marketing Execution

• Support projects across a wide range of disciplines—advertising, digital, social, experiential, shopper, and promotional.

• Learn the nuances of each channel and how they come together to form integrated brand experiences.

Internal Team Contribution

• Keep teams aligned with organized documentation, status updates, and consistent communication.

• Coordinate cross-functional collaboration to ensure work moves efficiently.

• Stay current on your clients’ industries, competitors, and cultural context to bring valuable perspective to discussions.

Who You Are

• A dependable, solutions-first teammate who loves keeping things organized and moving forward.

• A clear communicator who asks smart questions, listens closely, and follows through.

• Someone who thrives in a collaborative environment and builds strong relationships—internally and externally.

• A curious learner eager to grow in client service, project management, and integrated marketing.

• A proactive problem-solver who looks ahead, anticipates needs, and brings positive energy to the process.

What You Bring (Experience & Skills)

• 3+ years of experience in an integrated agency environment.

• Familiarity with digital, social, experiential, and promotional marketing.

• Strong communication, organizational, and time-management skills.

• Ability to juggle multiple projects with accuracy and composure.

• A proactive, team-first mindset and a desire to continually expand your skill set.

Motive is an equal opportunity employer! We believe that a diverse team makes us stronger and smarter.

Motive recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. We offer an inspiring working environment and great benefits, including employer-paid health, dental, vision, unlimited flex time off, 401k with annual match and more. The starting salary for this position is between $55k and $70k annually, based on experience. 

Motive has a clear vision: to be a creative leader where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, to stay and do their best work. We know our company succeeds only through the hard work and dedication of our passionate and creative employees.