Senior Designer, Entertainment Partnerships

Job Description

Who We Are

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is the world’s leading entertainment and sports agency, with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Nashville, London and Beijing. Founded in 1975, CAA represents many of the most successful professionals working in film, television, music, theater, video games, sport, and digital content, and provides a range of strategic marketing and consulting services to corporate clients.

The Department

We work with the world’s leading film studios, streamers, talent, and creators to connect their biggest properties with brand partners. Our creative team supports the sales team by building custom presentations that turn a complex partnership story into something a brand can see, feel, and say yes to.

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 your 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
• Responsible for supervising and mentoring a direct report, ensuring they are effectively trained in administrative tasks that support the team’s preparation and delivery of client presentations

Qualifications

• 6-8+ years of professional design experience, ideally in an agency, studio, brand, or in-house creative environment
• An 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)

Location

This role will be hybrid, located in our Los Angeles office.

Compensation

The annual base salary range for this position is as follows:

Los Angeles, CA -$95,000 - $117,000.

This position is also eligible for benefits and a discretionary bonus. Ultimately, the salary may vary based upon factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in the role, business sector, and geographic location, among other criteria. Please talk with a CAA Recruiter to learn more.

Benefits

At CAA, we offer a competitive compensation and benefits* package for all regular full-time employees:

Benefits where the company pays 80%-100% of the cost include:

• Medical
• Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
• Telemedicine
• Employee assistance and mental health counseling in person, virtually or through text
• Paid Vacation / 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

Employees may also elect to participate in voluntary benefits

• Dental, Vision Insurance
• 401K Plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care and Dependent Care)
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance

Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the California Fair Chance Act and the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers.

Creative Artists Agency, LLC (the “Company”) is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate on the basis of race (inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including hair texture and protective hairstyles), color, religion, creed, gender or sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), national origin, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, family and medical care leave status, military or veteran status, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, political affiliation, an employee’s or their dependent’s reproductive health decision making (e.g., the decision to use or access a particular drug, device or medical service), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

The absence of a permanent address is not a bar to employment. The Company does not discriminate against individuals based on housing status, including the absence of a fixed address.

The Company also complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws with regard to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities.

CAA does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless they were contractually engaged by CAA to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any such employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the acknowledgement and agreement that CAA will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.