Account Executive, Sports – Brand Consulting

Creative Artists Agency•Los Angeles, NY

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is a leading entertainment and sports agency with global expertise in various sectors including filmed and live entertainment, digital media, publishing, sponsorship sales, and brand marketing. CAA Brand Consulting is a strategy-led, full-service marketing agency specializing in Cultural and Consumer Insights, Data and Analytics, Talent/Influencer and Property Partnership Advisory, Experiential, Social Impact, Creative Services, and Content and Digital Strategy. The Account Executive role within CAA Brand Consulting will support a leading financial services client as an integrated member of the client account team. This role involves managing the day-to-day strategy, planning, and activation of key partnerships across college athletics programs and a sports league, with potential involvement in music festival partnerships. The candidate will interact regularly with the client and collaborate with internal teams, rights holders, vendors, agencies, and other external partners to execute programs that enhance awareness, deepen audience engagement, and achieve measurable business objectives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or similar discipline.
1-2+ years’ experience in sports, entertainment, or experiential marketing within a consulting environment, agency, rights holder, or brand.
Demonstrated project management experience, with the ability to manage multiple properties, markets, and workstreams simultaneously.
Experience supporting sponsorship activations, experiential programs, hospitality, talent, content, or event execution.
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the confidence to work across client, property, and agency stakeholders.
Proficiency in Slack, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint, as well as Google Workspace.
Exceptional attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
Ability to think quickly, exercise sound judgment, and remain composed in a fast-paced agency environment.
Ability to balance and advance multiple projects and project components on tight timelines.
Collaborative, proactive, and solution-oriented approach.
Ability to travel and attend games, events, and activations outside normal business hours, as needed.

Nice To Haves

Agency or brand consulting experience preferred.
Knowledge of college athletics, baseball, and live music or festival partnerships.
Experience working with financial services brands or within a regulated category.
Experience supporting multi-market or national sponsorship platforms, including community-based activations.
Familiarity with partnership measurement, proof-of-performance reporting, and post-event recaps.

Responsibilities

Provide day-to-day support for the client’s partnership portfolio, including college athletics programs, a sports league, and potential music festival properties.
Maintain integrated project plans, activation calendars, budgets, status reports, and partnership asset trackers across multiple properties and markets.
Support the planning and execution of contractual assets, promotions, experiential programs, hospitality, talent, content, community initiatives, and other property-specific activations.
Coordinate with rights holders, teams, venues, festival operators, vendors, talent representatives, and agencies to confirm deliverables, approvals, production requirements, and on-site logistics.
Support the creative development of marketing materials, digital content, experiential assets, and event-related creative, including collaboration with designers and management of internal and client approvals.
Partner with CAA Data & Analytics to support measurement frameworks, proof-of-performance reporting, recap materials, and optimization recommendations.
Work closely with Creative, Experiential, Strategy, Insights, and other account functions to ensure programs align with the client’s brand, audience, and business objectives.
Develop presentations, meeting materials, agendas, notes, and executive-ready recaps for internal and external stakeholders.
Monitor timelines, identify risks and dependencies, and proactively recommend solutions to keep multiple concurrent workstreams moving forward.
Support on-site execution at games, events, hospitality programs, and potential music festivals, including occasional travel and work outside standard business hours.