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Account Executive, Exhibits, Chicago

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This Chicago-based Account Executive role is built for someone who thrives on relationships, momentum, and meaningful wins. You’ll grow new business and expand existing partnerships for a full-service exhibit team known for sharp thinking, strong follow-through, and work that shows up beautifully on the floor. You’ll guide clients toward the right solution including custom builds, modular programs, rentals, and multi-show support with a consultative approach that earns trust and keeps business coming back. Why This Role This is a strong platform for an Account Executive who wants their effort to translate into lasting growth. You’ll represent a team with the capabilities, structure, and internal alignment to support high-quality work so you can sell with confidence and build relationships that stick. With the right mix of autonomy and support, you’ll have the runway to grow your book of business.

Account Executive, Exhibits, Orlando

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This is a relationship-driven Account Executive opportunity with a high-performing exhibit partner that blends creative strategy with disciplined execution. You’ll focus on building new business, expanding existing accounts, and guiding clients toward the right exhibit solution whether that is custom builds, modular programs, rentals, or multi-show support. If you sell with credibility, listen hard, and value long-term partnerships over quick wins, this seat is built for you. Why This Role This role is designed for an Account Executive who wants a stronger platform and a cleaner path to repeatable wins. You’ll collaborate with a capable internal team, sell solutions that are grounded in real-world delivery, and build a book of business through thoughtful discovery, sharp follow-through, and work brings clients back project after project.

Senior Account Executive, Exhibits, Las Vegas

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This is a high-impact Senior Account Executive role with a full-service exhibit + experiential organization known for design-forward thinking and execution that holds up under real show-floor pressure. You’ll drive new business, deepen key relationships, and sell solutions that span custom + modular exhibits, rentals, branded environments, and experiential activations backed by real production capability and a team that knows how to deliver.  Why This Role  This role is built for an Account Executive who wants more than transactions. You’ll be backed by real creative and operational depth, with the runway to build a book of business that lasts through consultative selling, long-term relationships, and solutions that perform from concept through show floor. The work is high visibility, the expectations are real, and the support behind you makes it possible to win the right accounts and keep them. 

Senior Account Executive, Exhibits, Phoenix

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Our client is a leader in face-to-face marketing delivering a full suite of exhibit, event, and environment solutions designed to amplify customer engagement. The team operates with a consultative, process-driven approach and is built for sellers who want real support behind them: strong delivery, strong operations, and solutions that win. They are actively seeking an experienced Senior Account Executive.  This is a seat where you can have smart conversations with decision-makers, sell solutions that genuinely move the needle, and build a book of business you’re proud of. As a Senior Account Executive, you’ll develop new client relationships, uncover objectives, present tailored solutions, close business, and grow long-term partnerships. You’ll generate your own leads while also working inbound/company-provided opportunities—then become a true partner in your clients’ success. Why This Role Sell a full portfolio. Exhibits, environments, and event solutions that solve real business objectives.  You’re leading strategy conversations, not quoting line items. Executive access + meaningful budgets. You’ll work directly with decision-makers who influence brand experience, customer engagement, and spend. A delivery engine that protects your reputation. Strong internal execution means what you sell gets delivered cleanly, so clients come back and referrals follow. Room to hunt and room to grow. Build your own pipeline, win new logos, and expand accounts with a clear path to bigger territory and bigger targets. High standards, high support. You’ll be surrounded by people who move fast, communicate clearly, and take pride in doing it right. Real upside. Uncapped commission + performance bonuses with the runway to build a high-earning book in a relationship-driven market.

Senior Account Executive, Exhibits, Remote

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Our client is a  full service exhibits, events, and environments partner with national reach.  They are known for a consultative approach, a defined delivery process, and an internal team built to execute. The solutions they offer are designed for brands that take in person engagement seriously and want results they can measure in experience, impact, and follow through. They are seeking a Senior Account Executive to open doors, earn trust quickly, and lead discovery with executives who control significant budgets. You’ll shape opportunities by uncovering what matters most, align the right solution, and close with confidence. This role is built for a high caliber sales professional who can combine business development instincts with strategic curiosity. Why This Role Solutions that open doors. A full suite of exhibits, events, and environments gives you multiple ways to create value and expand relationships over time. Strategic, consultative selling. You’ll lead discovery, align the right solution, and guide decisions with clarity. Strong execution behind the sale. A capable internal team supports delivery, client experience, and long-term account growth. Performance runway. Build a book of business with uncapped commission, bonuses. Autonomy with momentum. Remote flexibility paired with a team that moves quickly, communicates well, and operates with high standards.

Director of Operations, Exhibits, Midwest

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This client is a fast-growing, execution-first team built for high-quality exhibit and event work—where ownership, urgency, and pride in craft are lived daily. The operation moves with pace and precision, collaborates closely across departments, and invests in continuous improvement as the business scales. This Director of Operations seat is for a leader who can strengthen the full operational engine setting the standard, building the rhythm, and elevating performance through people, process, and discipline. The successful candidate will lead end-to-end delivery across scheduling, warehouse/staging flow, shipping/logistics, and install/dismantle execution. That means establishing operating cadence, developing leaders, and implementing scalable systems that make performance repeatable and measurable especially during high-volume cycles. You’ll partner across Sales, Project Management, Client Services, Design, and Finance to ensure projects land on time, on budget, and at a consistent standard while continuously improving throughput, accuracy, and team capability. Why This Role Own operations at the leadership level. You’re accountable for performance, systems, and the standard. Scale with intention. Build structure, cadence, and controls that support growth. Lead people and outcomes. Hire, develop, coach, and retain a team that executes with pride and consistency. Stay close to execution. Strategic leadership with practical presence when it matters most.

CAD Detailer, Exhibits, Midwest

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Our client is a full-service experiential partner that designs, builds, and installs trade show exhibits, showrooms, and other live brand environments. Their team is known for acting as combining strategy, creativity, craftsmanship, and hands-on support to deliver a smooth show program from concept through dismantle and storage. They support custom and rental programs, along with complementary capabilities that can include interiors, events, graphics, and integrated technologies. This is a hands-on detailing role for someone who loves turning big creative ideas into build-ready reality. As the CAD Detailer, you will translate approved concepts into precise, production-ready construction documents that fabrication teams can trust down to the last dimension and callout. You’ll collaborate closely with design, project management, and production to keep projects moving, reduce shop-floor friction, and ensure the finished product looks as good in real life as it did in the render. Why This Role Your work drives the build: you produce documentation the shop relies elevating quality. High collaboration, low silo: partner daily with Designers, Project Managers, and Production to resolve constructability questions early. Variety and momentum: support a mix of exhibits and environments with real pace and real deadlines. Trusted technical voice: you’ll own drawings, revisions, and standards bringing calm, clarity, and precision to the build process.  

Exhibit + Experiential Designer, Exhibits, Mid-Atlantic

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Our client is a design forward exhibit design and fabrication firm that helps brands show up with intention on the trade show floor, in permanent environments, and at live activations. Strategy, storytelling, and spatial design sit under one roof, supported by in-house production. They’re looking for a Senior Experiential / Exhibit Designer who can own the creative arc of a project from the first sketch through final design intent, collaborating with account, strategy, and production teams along the way. Why This Role You’ll lead the visual and spatial language for key programs, present directly to clients, and help shape how global and national brands connect with people face-to-face. If you’re the designer who thinks in big-picture narrative and obsessively sweats the details, this environment will give you the complexity, visibility, and momentum you’ve been seeking.

Senior Account Executive, Exhibits, Northeast (Remote)

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We’re partnering with a global systems manufacturer serving the trade show, exhibit, and live events industry to add a Senior Account Executive based in the Northeastern United States. This organization designs and produces engineered modular structures, SEG and lightbox frames, and LED-ready solutions that power trade show booths, branded environments, and event builds around the world. Their systems are trusted by exhibit houses, rental providers, fabrication shops, and production companies who need flexibility, durability, and a premium look on the show floor. This role is ideal for a high-energy salesperson who loves building new relationships in the trade show and experiential marketing space and enjoys selling a technical, design-forward product. Why This Role This role gives you a clear lane to do what you do best: create new opportunities and grow meaningful revenue in the trade show and live events space. You’ll be in front of exhibit houses, event partners, and brand teams having real conversations, uncovering needs, and shaping solutions that support their programs over time. It’s a strong fit if you’re a proven hunter who wants ownership, visibility, and a direct connection to your target audience.

Account Executive, Exhibits, West Coast (Remote)

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We’re partnering with a highly respected engineered exhibit systems provider. They are actively seeking West Coast Account Executive to join their team. This company helps exhibit houses, live event producers, and brand teams bring environments ranging from trade shows and conferences to branded spaces and touring experiences to life. Think polished structures, clean lines, and technology-forward elements that make it easier for clients to design, update, and refresh their presence show after show. Why This Role This role is built for a true hunter. Your focus is net-new business, opening doors, and turning prospects into long-term customers. You’ll sell modular exhibit and event systems that sit at the heart of trade show programs, rentals, touring activations, and branded environments, giving you multiple ways into a client’s budget. The solutions you represent help clients streamline installs, reduce waste, repurpose components, and elevate the visual impact of their exhibits. Your wins will show up as real-world results on the show floor that drive visibility and revenue. This role is a strong fit for a top-performing Sales Executive.

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