Agencies
Senior Designer, Entertainment Partnerships
Mid Level
Los Angeles, United States
hybrid
Full time
Job description
About the Role
Sits within a creative team that works with leading film studios, streamers, talent, and creators to connect their biggest properties with brand partners. The team supports the sales team by building custom presentations that turn complex partnership stories into something a brand can see, feel, and say yes to. The position focuses on creating original layouts, visual systems, and art direction for high-impact sales presentations, translating strategy and creative concepts into persuasive visual narratives.
Key Responsibilities
- Create original layouts/templates, visual systems, and art direction within custom, high-impact sales presentations that reflect the tone, style, and IP of each property while elevating the brand partnership story.
- Translate strategy, research, and creative concepts into polished, persuasive visual narratives, from first concept to final delivery.
- Partner closely with colleagues to understand each pitch's objectives and shape the story visually.
- Own project timelines by building workback schedules, setting review checkpoints, and flagging risks early to ensure on-time delivery.
- Work fast in a deadline-driven environment, balancing multiple projects and shifting priorities without compromising quality.
- Integrate AI and emerging design tools into the workflow to improve efficiency, creativity, and output quality.
- Maintain rigorous quality control on typography, imagery, consistency, and overall polish across every deliverable.
- Stay current on design innovation, marketing trends, entertainment releases, and pop culture to inform and inspire the work.
- Contribute to team templates, best practices, and the evolution of the team's creative standards.
- Supervise and mentor a direct report, ensuring they are effectively trained in administrative tasks that support the team's preparation and delivery of client presentations.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- 6-8+ years of professional design experience.
- Exceptional design eye and proven experience designing presentations for sales and/or business development teams, translating narratives, ideas and strategy into clear, persuasive visual storytelling through pitch deck development and mockups.
- A portfolio that shows sophisticated typography, layout, art direction, and craft.
- Expert-level fluency in Keynote, PowerPoint, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
- Strong command of emerging design and AI tools, with a clear point of view on how to use them to raise the quality and speed of the work.
- A high personal bar for quality and ability to self-edit before work leaves your desk.
- Strong time management skills, ability to define and hit review checkpoints and deadlines across multiple concurrent projects.
- A collaborative, adaptable working style, comfortable taking feedback, pivoting quickly, and partnering closely with creative colleagues and sales leads.
- Genuine passion for and knowledge of marketing, entertainment, and pop culture.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to articulate and workshop design decisions.
- Manage and mentor a direct report (Design Assistant).
Preferred Skills
- Experience in an agency, studio, brand, or in-house creative environment is ideal.
Workplace
- Hybrid role based in the Los Angeles office.
Salary
- Eligible for a discretionary bonus.
Benefits & Perks
- Competitive compensation and benefits package for all regular full-time employees.
- Medical (company pays 80%-100% of the cost).
- Basic Life and AD&D Insurance (company pays 80%-100% of the cost).
- Telemedicine (company pays 80%-100% of the cost).
- Employee assistance and mental health counseling in person, virtually or through text (company pays 80%-100% of the cost).
- Paid Vacation / Holidays (company pays 80%-100% of the cost).
- Paid Sick Time (company pays 80%-100% of the cost).
- Paid Parental Leave and Other Paid Leaves of Absence (company pays 80%-100% of the cost).
- NICU leave (company pays 80%-100% of the cost).
- Bereavement resources (company pays 80%-100% of the cost).
- Adoption Benefits (company pays 80%-100% of the cost).
- Educational Assistance (company pays 80%-100% of the cost).
About the Company
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is the world's leading entertainment and sports agency, with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Nashville, London and Beijing.
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