Brand Experience Designer

University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Brand Experience Designer plans and creates branded content across Texas Athletics facilities and platforms, collaborating with multiple units. The role designs, prints, fabricates, and installs branding across venues and digital platforms, while maintaining a consistent brand experience for fans, student-athletes, and staff. The position is expected to work regular on-site hours in Austin and is not suitable for remote work. Additional hours, including early mornings, evenings, weekends, and holidays, are required; travel may also be required.

The position collaborates with creative, facilities, capital projects, and sponsorship staff; coordinates project records and related requests, deadlines, assets, budgets, and vendors with the Assistant Director, Facilities Branding; and serves on the Texas Athletics Facilities Branding Committee. It also follows, maintains, and updates experiential brand standards and assists with other graphic design requests and facilities projects as needed. The role includes driving a UT or rental vehicle on and off campus.

The successful candidate is expected to uphold Texas Athletics' core values and quality standards, act ethically, comply with applicable university, governing-body, and legal requirements, participate in assigned education and training, and fulfill reporting and cooperation obligations, including applicable Title IX responsibilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Visual Arts, Sports Management, or a related field; relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.
• Two or more years of professional experience using Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Excellent organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to challenge the status quo while maintaining the integrity of a brand.
• Class C operator’s driver’s license; the selected applicant must provide a current three-year driving record from their current state of residence.
• If not currently a Texas resident, obtain a Texas driver’s license within 30 days of becoming a Texas resident.

Nice To Haves

• Professional experience in intercollegiate athletics or professional sports.
• Professional experience in facilities branding or signage design.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with creative, facilities, capital projects, and sponsorship staff to design, print, fabricate, and install Texas Athletics branding across venues and digital platforms.
• Design visuals in response to requests while maintaining a consistent brand experience for fans, student-athletes, and staff across venues and digital platforms.
• Coordinate with the Assistant Director, Facilities Branding to maintain records of projects, requests, deadlines, assets, budgets, and vendors.
• Serve on the Texas Athletics Facilities Branding Committee and follow, maintain, and update Texas Athletics experiential brand standards in collaboration with the committee.
• Assist with additional graphic design requests and facilities projects as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned, including driving a UT or rental vehicle on and off campus.
• Exemplify Texas Athletics' core values and quality standards; act ethically; comply with applicable laws, policies, rules, and regulations; participate in training; report applicable violations and outside activities; and cooperate with investigations.
• Promptly report incidents of sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, or stalking involving a current student or employee to the University’s Title IX Coordinator or a Deputy Title IX Coordinator.

What This Job Offers

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