Senior Designer, Brand Partnerships

Job Description

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. Reference: ECNJOBID-47-150-102-146 in the application