Senior Brand Designer
CAA
Los Angeles, CAThis is a Full Time Job
The Role
The Senior Designer, Brand can concept, design, direct, and inspire - a true maker at heart, equal parts artist, technician, and visual storyteller. You're the one who can do it all: command creative authorship with range, push boundaries with craft, and turn a blank frame into a world-class visual narrative that lives across sports, entertainment, and culture.
This is a hands-on designer who sets the visual bar and inspires teams through design excellence. You bring taste, technical range, and an obsession with detail - from 2D graphic systems to fully dimensional worlds.
Responsibilities
• Lead Brand Systems: Concept and execute visual identities and marketing systems across our sports, entertainment, and cultural brand portfolio.
• Champion of Craft: Ensure all visual output - from motion graphics to 3D renders - meets world-class standards of aesthetic and strategic intent.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with creative directors, strategists, producers, and account leads to bring holistic brand storytelling to life.
• Stakeholder Presentation: Present ideas with clarity and conviction to clients, leadership, and collaborators.
• Mentorship: Elevate junior designers by modeling impeccable craft and creative curiosity.
Requirements
• 5–8+ years in brand design within media, broadcast, entertainment, or cultural brands.
• Ability to design multiple high-impact concepts across diverse visual styles.
• 3D Design: Cinema 4D / Blender - spatial design, lighting, materials, rendering.
• 2D Design: Illustrator - brand systems, identity design, typography.
• Compositing: Photoshop - high-end compositing, color correction, finishing.
• Motion + Editorial (bonus): After Effects and Premiere.
• Presentation: Keynote, Figma, PowerPoint, InDesign.
• Expert in Cinema 4D (or similar), 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 color, texture, lighting, and composition.
• Advanced Photoshop compositing, photo retouching, and image finishing - you can literally paint in light.
Preferred Skills
• A knockout portfolio that proves you can design at a world-class level.
• Deep understanding of visual storytelling, motion theory, and brand identity.
• Ability to balance speed, scale, and craft - multiple projects, no loss in quality.
• Passion for sports, entertainment, and culture - you live in the zeitgeist and know how to translate it visually.
• Proven leadership and team-inspiration skills.
Location
The Brand Consulting department offers a flexible work schedule and requires three days per week on-site at our Los Angeles office.
Salary/Benefits
$92,000.00
- 112,000.00
per year
$92,000 - $112,000 /year USD
Salary may vary based on relevant experience and other criteria.
Perks
• Flexible work schedule
Additional Information
CAA Brand Consulting is a strategy-led, full-service marketing agency specializing in Cultural and Consumer Insights, Data and Analytics, Talent/Influencer and Property Partnership Advisory, Experiential, Social Impact, Creative Services, and Content and Digital Strategy. By integrating these capabilities, the agency provides comprehensive solutions from planning through execution, leveraging a collective perspective of expertise for each client brief to ensure diverse thinking and strategies that resonate with the marketplace and culture.