Art Director, LA28 Olympic & Paralympic Games

TKO Group Holdings, Inc•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

The Art Director (AD) is the visual storyteller and design steward responsible for translating the vision of the Vice President of Experience Design and the Group Creative Director into impactful, dimensionalized creative executions. This role will elevate and evolve On Location’s LA28 Olympic Games brand and style guides across all channels: environmental, experiential, digital, and marketing—ensuring a unified and ever-improving visual identity that drives our Olympic Hospitality programs.

Requirements

10+ years of progressive experience in art direction or senior design roles, preferably with experiential, hospitality, large-scale / high attendance events and event-driven programs.
5+ years of agency experience, with demonstrated leadership on brand development and look-and-feel creation for major clients.
Strong portfolio showcasing environmental, experiential, and integrated visual work.
Demonstrated expertise in illustrative system development, conveying and establishing visual narrative, in tandem with the ability to create, direct, and evolve custom hand-crafted and digital illustration styles in service of experience storyboarding.
Proven expertise in brand systems, visual identity development, and large-scale creative rollouts.
Proven ability to manage, mentor, and inspire multidisciplinary design teams.
Exceptional eye for detail, composition, and storytelling; adept at balancing creative vision with production realities.

Responsibilities

Visual Storytelling & Brand Stewardship Interpret and bring to life the creative vision across all channels through bold, cohesive, and immersive visual storytelling.
Own and continuously refine On Location’s brand and style guidelines for the LA28 Olympic Games, ensuring consistency and evolution across all platforms and disciplines. As well as alignment with LA28 brand team.
Develop visual systems and toolkits that enable scalable, high-quality execution by internal and external teams.
Develop and lead the execution of the LA28 Olympic Hospitality design system(s) needed for an impactful LA28 delivery.
Design Leadership Across Channels Lead and inspire multidisciplinary creative, marketing and production teams spanning environmental, experiential, digital, and marketing channels.
Oversee the creation of visual assets, mood boards, style frames, and templates for use across campaigns and guest touchpoints.
Ensure that all creative deliverables uphold brand standards, IOC / LA28 compliance, and the highest levels of visual excellence.
Illustration art direction; working closely with illustrators to establish style, aesthetics, artwork creation, as well as schedules and preparation of final deliverables (marketing, storyboarding, motion graphics, etc)
Motion graphics and animation directorial skills; communicating with motion artists to bring static imagery and lockups to life across all media.
Dimensionalize Concepts Into Reality Translate conceptual ideas into tangible, production-ready designs for Olympic Hospitality environments, marketing and sales materials (print and digital), and guest experiences.
Provide direction on photography, illustration, typography, and layout to ensure consistency of the visual language.
Cross-Functional Collaboration Work with Marketing, Product Content, Guest Communications, Production and Sales teams to ensure a unified, visually compelling narrative at every guest touchpoint.
Support the organization in collateral materials, presentations, and partner-facing creative proposals.
Act as a creative liaison between designers, producers, and stakeholders to streamline feedback and approvals.
Serve the creative team as a "player-coach"; always available to provide direction and mentorship, as well as being able to assist with workload(s) and support the team in completion of all collateral as needed.
Serve as final design review before materials go LA28/IOC to ensure the standard and compliance is met.