WME is seeking a highly creative, collaborative, and client-savvy Senior Designer to join our creative team in Los Angeles. This role is ideal for an experienced designer who pairs strong design skills with the confidence and communication skills to present ideas, contribute to creative conversations, and build trusted relationships with internal teams and clients.
The Senior Designer will play a key role in developing compelling visual narratives, brand identities, digital assets, and high-impact presentations that bring creative concepts and business opportunities to life. Working closely with our team and clients, this individual will translate complex ideas into sophisticated, engaging creative solutions while helping shape the team's evolving approach to brand and presentation design.
We're looking for someone who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, brings a strong creative point of view, and is as comfortable presenting their work to senior leadership and clients as they are creating it.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and execute sophisticated creative concepts across brand identity, digital, pitch presentations, and client-facing materials.
- Develop visually compelling presentations and narratives that communicate complex ideas, strategic recommendations, and creative concepts to executive and client audiences.
- Confidently present creative work to senior leadership and clients, articulating design decisions, incorporating feedback, and driving alignment.
- Join client meetings, pitches, and working sessions as a creative partner, representing the team with professionalism and sound judgment.
- Translate creative briefs, business objectives, and brand strategies into thoughtful, innovative design solutions.
- Partner closely with cross-functional teams to support new business pitches, client initiatives, talent signings, brand partnerships, and event-related creative.
- Independently manage projects from concept through execution while maintaining exceptional creative quality, attention to detail, and alignment with the brief.
- Contribute to a collaborative, supportive, and ego-free team culture, sharing ideas and feedback with fellow designers.
- Stay informed on emerging design trends, creative technologies, and AI-powered tools, bringing fresh perspectives to the team.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional design experience, ideally within an in-house brand studio, creative agency, or consumer-facing organization.
- Exceptional portfolio demonstrating sophisticated visual design, brand storytelling, digital creative, and presentation design.
- Experience presenting creative work to senior leaders and clients, with strong communication and storytelling skills and the ability to confidently walk through creative decisions and take feedback in stride.
- Strong proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and presentation platforms such as PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides.
- Strong understanding of brand identity, typography, layout, visual hierarchy, and digital design principles.
- Experience managing multiple projects and stakeholders in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.
- Strong creative judgment, adaptability, and a solutions-oriented approach to problem-solving.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within an in-house brand studio, creative agency, or design team supporting culturally relevant consumer-facing brands, particularly across entertainment, beauty, fashion, lifestyle, technology, or consumer packaged goods (CPG).
- Experience developing creative for new business pitches, brand partnerships, or executive-level presentations.
- Familiarity with AI-powered creative and productivity tools, such as Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, ChatGPT, Claude, or similar platforms, with a thoughtful perspective on how emerging technologies can enhance the creative process.
- Experience with experiential, event, or print design.
- Experience mentoring junior designers.
Per local requirements and in the interest of transparency, the rate shown below reflects the prevalent current hiring range for this position. Hiring pay rates are based on a number of factors, including location and may vary depending on job-related qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience. The company strives to provide locally competitive rewards packages, which include base rate along with, as applicable, short- and long-term incentives, growth and developmental opportunities, and robust benefits, such as health care, retirement, vacation and other paid time off, and additional offerings.
Hiring Rate Minimum:
$63,345 annually (minimum will not fall below the applicable state/local minimum salary thresholds)
Hiring Rate Maximum:
$84,460 annually
WME is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion or belief.
