Designer

Job Description

THE AGENCY

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. Distinguished by its culture of collaboration and exceptional client service, CAA’s diverse workforce identifies, innovates, and amplifies opportunities for the people and organisations that shape culture and inspire the world. The trailblazer of the agency business, CAA was the first to build a sports business, create an investment bank, launch a venture fund, found technology start-up companies, establish a philanthropic arm, build a business in China, and form a brand marketing services division, among other innovations.

Named Most Valuable Sports Agency by Forbes for eight consecutive years, CAA represents more than 2,000 of the world’s top athletes in football, baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, in addition to coaches, on-air broadcasters, and sports personalities and works in the areas of broadcast rights, corporate marketing initiatives, social impact, and sports properties for sales and sponsorship opportunities. 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.

OVERVIEW

Within CAA Brand Consulting we have 200+ specialists working with over 35 leading brands. Our service offering spans across strategy, creative, activation, comms, digital, event & hospitality.

We have an exciting opportunity for a talented and experienced designer to join our award-winning London team and support across our portfolio of sport & entertainment brands. Our small but talented team is responsible for creating stand-out exciting, big ideas and campaigns that drive attention for our clients across the worlds of sports and entertainment and we are looking for a hungry designer to join us as we grow.

THE ROLE

We’re looking for a confident self-starter who has had experience working as a designer in a fast-paced agency environment and is looking for a new challenge working with some of the world’s leading sports and entertainment properties. You live and breathe design, a fast thinker who can problem solve and tell stories visually, you love nothing more than owning the full design process from visual concept to artwork and using the right tools (Adobe CC Suite and Microsoft PPT) for the job and ensuring you are working as effectively and as efficiently as possible. We’re looking for someone with a beautiful portfolio of commercial Sports & Entertainment work that demonstrates your skills across print, social and digital. You should have a great design eye and be across the latest visual design trends as well as understand and implement brand and design guidelines to create stunning work that’s fit for purpose. You thrive in a fast-paced agency environment and can work on multiple projects at once. You should be equally confident retouching and creating visual compositions to a high standard as well as having a meticulous eye for artwork detail and a robust working knowledge of the Adobe CC suite.

Main responsibilities to include, but not limited to:
- Own the end-to-end design process of projects.- Create accurate artwork for print, social and screen media.- Building bold, visual storytelling decks that sell creative ideas and excite audiences.- Manipulate and retouch imagery to a very high standard.- Contribute and perform as an effective and willing member of our Design Studio team.- Liaise directly with clients or suppliers to achieve the best results in the most cost-effective way.- Collaborate with a wide range of people across the whole agency (the account management team, strategy and planning, Creative Directors, Creatives, Designers, and creative services) as well as sourcing and managing external creative specialists to help bring our creative vision to life.- Presenting design concepts to internal teams and clients.- Contribute to internal design inspiration sessions, workshops and publications.

What you’ll bring:
- You'll love designing and creating beautiful and dynamic visual work within the worlds of sports and entertainment.- You'll thrive on developing design concepts into visual campaign systems.- You'll create not just what the brief asks for but what the project needs, producing beautifully designed decks and visual assets that are in line with the project's objectives and requirements.- You’ll manipulate and retouch photography to align it to a campaign visual style.- You'll thrive in a very fast-paced agency environment.- You'll be a pro at creating accurate artwork for Print, Social and Digital executions.- You’ll love typography and have an eye for detail.- You'll love working collaboratively with Creative Directors, Designers, Art