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 annuallyWME 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.Skills Required
- 5+ years of professional design experience
- Exceptional portfolio demonstrating visual design, brand storytelling, digital creative, and presentation design
- Experience presenting creative work to senior leaders and clients
- Strong communication and storytelling skills
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite
- Proficiency with presentation platforms such as PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides
- Understanding of brand identity, typography, layout, visual hierarchy, and digital design principles
- Experience managing multiple projects and stakeholders in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
- Strong creative judgment, adaptability, and solutions-oriented problem-solving
- Experience supporting culturally relevant consumer-facing brands in entertainment, beauty, fashion, lifestyle, technology, or consumer packaged goods
- 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, or Claude
- Experience with experiential, event, or print design
- Experience mentoring junior designers
WME Group, LLC (d.b.a. WME) Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about WME Group, LLC (d.b.a. WME) and has not been reviewed or approved by WME Group, LLC (d.b.a. WME).
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Parental & Family Support — Family benefits are described as expansive, including up to 18 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents, 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, and up to $50,000 for fertility and family-planning services when enrolled in an Aetna plan. Feedback suggests lactation resources and dependent-care FSAs further strengthen support for caregivers.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is portrayed as flexible and generous, featuring unlimited vacation, eight sick days, nine company holidays, two floating holidays, and three volunteer days. Feedback suggests the breadth is attractive even though practical usage may depend on team norms.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is outlined as robust, with four Aetna medical options (including an HSA plan with up to $1,000 employer contribution), dental and vision plans, telemedicine, and FSAs/HSA. Wellness access such as a 24/7 EAP, therapy resources, and discounted fitness programs adds to the package.
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What We Do
WME (The WME Group) is a leading talent and media agency representing artists, creators and brands across film, television, music, theater, books and digital media. The company provides talent representation, content services and brand partnerships and — through its IMG and related businesses — operates major sports, events and media rights businesses globally. WME positions itself as an advocate and connector between talent and global audiences.
