Account Manager - Sports- Brand Consulting

Creative Artists Agency • Los Angeles, CA

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Account Manager will work in CAA’s Brand Consulting department, supporting multiple brand accounts. The role focuses on securing entertainment and talent partnerships for brand clients and managing projects from strategy and ideation through ongoing partnership management. The position is based in CAA’s Los Angeles or New York office, with a flexible schedule and a minimum of three days per week on-site.

The Account Manager contributes to partnership strategy and creative development, researches and recommends talent, supports negotiations and client-facing presentations, and helps manage partnership execution. The role also identifies entertainment and cultural opportunities, maintains industry relationships, and serves as a day-to-day client contact across projects and workstreams. Responsibilities include managing project plans, timelines, budgets, deliverables, finance trackers, and workback calendars.

The annual base salary range is $85,000–$110,000 in Los Angeles and $85,000–$110,000 in New York. The position is eligible for benefits and a discretionary bonus. CAA offers regular full-time employees a competitive benefits package, including company-paid benefits and optional voluntary benefits.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, or a similar discipline.
• 4–6+ years of relevant experience in entertainment marketing, talent partnerships, brand consulting, an agency, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of and genuine interest in celebrities, film, television, music, and pop culture.
• Experience supporting talent negotiations or partnerships and TV/film opportunities on behalf of brands.
• Ability to contribute strategically and creatively, not only execute an existing plan or idea.
• Strong project and account management skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple fast-moving projects and priorities.
• Good instincts around talent and culture and an understanding of what makes a partnership relevant and authentic.
• Proactive, quick-thinking, collaborative approach and comfort taking ownership of day-to-day workstreams.

Nice To Haves

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Highly organized, with attention to detail and ability to manage complex projects.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to adapt quickly to new responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to entertainment, talent, and cultural partnership strategy, brainstorming and developing ideas that respond to client objectives and briefs.
• Help manage day-to-day celebrity and talent partnership work across multiple brand accounts.
• Research and identify celebrity, athlete, and creator talent based on client objectives, audience, cultural relevance, and budget.
• Support talent recommendations, points of view, strategic thinking, and client-facing presentations, including project plans, decks, and workback calendars.
• Support the team with key deal terms on behalf of brand clients and help manage talent partnerships from contracting through execution, keeping deliverables and timelines on track.
• Identify relevant film, television, music, and broader entertainment and cultural opportunities, including product placement and co-promotional opportunities.
• Build relationships and conduct outreach to key personnel, including promotional teams at studios, networks, streamers, and production resource teams.
• Stay informed about upcoming films, television series, music releases, tours, emerging talent, and cultural moments, and proactively identify opportunities for clients.
• Serve as a day-to-day client contact across assigned projects and workstreams.
• Manage project timelines, finance trackers, workbacks, budgets, and deliverables for client-facing and internal communications.

Benefits

• Medical insurance; the company pays 80%–100% of the cost.
• Basic life and AD&D insurance; the company pays 80%–100% of the cost.
• Telemedicine; the company pays 80%–100% of the cost.
• Employee assistance and mental health counseling in person, virtually, or through text; the company pays 80%–100% of the cost.
• Paid vacation and holidays.
• Paid sick time.
• Paid parental leave and other paid leaves of absence.
• NICU leave.
• Bereavement resources.
• Adoption benefits.
• Educational assistance.
• Mental health resources.
• Employee Assistance Plan.
• Dental insurance (voluntary).
• Vision insurance (voluntary).
• 401(k) plan.
• Flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent care.
• Health savings account.
• Voluntary life and AD&D insurance.
• Commuter benefits.
• Discretionary bonus.
• Other statutory mandated benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level