Director,Design

UTA Brand Studio seeks a passionate, collaborative, and experienced Design Director to join its leading team of designers, strategists and creative specialists. The Brand Studio is UTA’s in-house strategic design and client brand management team. The studio delivers award-winning, best-in-class creative solutions on behalf of its top tier industry-leading client roster of actors, athletes, musicians, writers, producers, directors, gamers, and digital creators. We have been incubated within UTA - one of the world’s largest talent, sports, and entertainment agencies - since 2012. Reporting to the Creative Director and into the agency’s Head of Design, the Design Director will be a thoughtful and connected creative strategist as well as an inspiring, detail-oriented client brand manager, all wrapped in the modern cloth of a passionate graphic designer. With a proven background in corporate identity design, strong concept development skills, excellent typographic touch, and strong communication principles, the individual will be given a wide range of responsibilities and design opportunities as you lead project teams and spearhead initiatives on behalf of our clients. The ideal candidate will play a lead role in developing culturally relevant, progressive creative solutions on behalf of the agency’s largest clients as they seek to build and launch new companies, ventures, IP, and creative initiatives in collaboration with other business development groups within the agency.   The salary range for this role is $160,000 to $180,000 commensurate with experience and skills. What You Will Do - Lead project teams in conceptualizing and building relevant and engaging visual identity programs from the ground up, creating the emotional and resonant worlds for our clients and their brand initiatives - Innovate, design, and expand on tent-pole, in-house marketing and communication initiatives—including specialty programing and identity / campaign design solutions for global events