Senior Designer, Sports - Brand Consulting

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Medical insurance coverage

Paid vacation and holidays

Paid sick time

Parental leave

Job summary

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in Los Angeles seeks a senior brand designer to lead concepting and execution of visual identities across sports, entertainment, and culture. You will craft brand systems, logos and dynamic compositions, collaborating with directors, strategists and producers to deliver world-class branding across campaigns and events.

The role requires 5–8+ years in top-tier studios, expert Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign, and strong storytelling through typography and motion.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years in brand design within media, broadcast, entertainment or cultural brands at high-level design and branding studios.
• Ability to design multiple high-impact concepts across diverse visual styles.
• 2D design proficiency in Illustrator, InDesign and Figma for brand systems, identity design and typography.
• Compositing proficiency in Photoshop, including high-end comping, lighting, dimensional effects, colour correction and finishing.
• Presentation proficiency in PowerPoint, Keynote, Figma and InDesign.
• Expert level in Photoshop, Illustrator and other creative tools.
• Strong grasp of dynamic composition, grid systems, navigation principles, and the ability to storyboard sequences.
• Deep understanding of brand identity systems, typography, motion and narrative design.

Responsibilities

• Lead the concepting and execution of visual identities and marketing systems across the sports, entertainment and cultural brand portfolio.
• Create elevated design executions with a strong foundation in logo design, information systems, dynamic composition and visual compositing (comping).
• Champion craft by ensuring all visual output, from motion graphics to 3D renders, meets world-class standards of aesthetic and strategic intent.
• Partner closely with creative directors, strategists, producers and account leads to bring holistic brand storytelling to life.
• Present ideas with clarity and conviction to clients, leadership and collaborators.
• Mentor and elevate junior designers by modelling best practice.
• Interrogate briefs to identify the creative opportunity and develop ownable concepts.
• Build ideas that scale across brand identities, campaigns, network and broadcast packages, live-event rebrands, sports presentation and immersive environments.

Skills

Brand design

Logo design

Typography

3D design

Compositing

Concept development

Presentation

Leadership

Brand storytelling

Color and texture

Tools

Illustrator

InDesign

Figma

Photoshop

PowerPoint

Keynote

Cinema 4D

Blender

Job description

About the Role

This role sits within CAA Brand Consulting, a strategy-led, full-service marketing agency with expertise in Cultural and Consumer Insights, Data and Analytics, Talent/Influencer and Property Partnership Advisory, Experiential, Social Impact, Creative Services, and Content and Digital Strategy. The position conceptualises and designs for brand clients, interrogating a brief to find the creative opportunity, developing an ownable concept and transforming it into a world-class visual system. It is a hands-on making role requiring exceptional 2D and 3D design skills, with ideas that scale across brand identities, campaigns, network and broadcast packages, live-event rebrands, sports presentation and immersive environments. The successful candidate brings creative authorship, range, exceptional taste, technical mastery and an obsession with craft, taking an idea from a blank page to a fully realised brand world across sports, entertainment, media and culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the concepting and execution of visual identities and marketing systems across the sports, entertainment and cultural brand portfolio.
• Create elevated design executions with a strong foundation in logo design, information systems, dynamic composition and visual compositing (comping).
• Champion craft by ensuring all visual output, from motion graphics to 3D renders, meets world-class standards of aesthetic and strategic intent.
• Partner closely with creative directors, strategists, producers and account leads to bring holistic brand storytelling to life.
• Present ideas with clarity and conviction to clients, leadership and collaborators.
• Mentor and elevate junior designers by modelling best practice.
• Interrogate briefs to identify the creative opportunity and develop ownable concepts.
• Build ideas that scale across brand identities, campaigns, network and broadcast packages, live-event rebrands, sports presentation and immersive environments.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 5–8+ years in brand design within media, broadcast, entertainment or cultural brands at high-level design and branding studios.
• Ability to design multiple high-impact concepts across diverse visual styles.
• 2D design proficiency in Illustrator, InDesign and Figma for brand systems, identity design and typography.
• Compositing proficiency in Photoshop, including high-end comping, lighting, dimensional effects, colour correction and finishing.
• Presentation proficiency in PowerPoint, Keynote, Figma and InDesign.
• Expert level in Photoshop, Illustrator and other creative tools.
• Skilled in creating dimensional compositions, logo and typography treatments, and design elements that combine light, texture and depth into cinematic frames.
• Deep understanding of brand identity systems, typography, motion and narrative design.
• Strong grasp of dynamic composition, grid systems, navigation principles, and the ability to storyboard sequences.
• Exceptional attention to colour, texture, lighting and composition.
• Advanced Photoshop compositing, photo retouching and image finishing.

Preferred Skills

• Motion and editorial skills in After Effects and Premiere (bonus).
• 3D design skills in Cinema 4D or Blender (bonus), including spatial design, lighting, materials and rendering.
• Cinema 4D or similar 3D software is a plus.
• A knockout portfolio that proves the ability to design at a world-class level.
• Deep understanding of visual storytelling, motion theory and brand identity.
• Ability to balance speed, scale and craft across multiple projects without loss in quality.
• Passion for sports, entertainment and culture, with the ability to translate the zeitgeist visually.
• Proven leadership and team-inspiration skills.

Workplace

• A minimum of three days per week on-site in the Los Angeles office.
• The Brand Consulting department offers a flexible work schedule alongside the on-site requirement.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive compensation and benefits package for all regular full‑time employees.
• The company pays 80%–100% of the cost of several benefits, including medical insurance, basic life and AD&D insurance, and telemedicine.
• Employee assistance and mental health counselling in person, virtually or through text.
• Paid vacation and holidays.
• Paid sick time.
• Paid parental leave and other paid leaves of absence.
• NICU leave.
• Bereavement resources.
• Adoption benefits.
• Educational assistance.
• Mental health resources.
• Employee assistance plan.

About the Company

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is the leading entertainment and sports agency, with global expertise in filmed and live entertainment, digital media, publishing, sponsorship sales and endorsements, media finance, consumer investing, fashion, trademark licensing, and philanthropy. Founded in 1975, CAA is headquartered in Los Angeles and has offices in New York, Nashville, Memphis, Chicago, Miami, London, Munich, Geneva, Stockholm, Shanghai and Beijing, among other locations globally.