Senior Account Manager - Brand Consulting

Creative Artists Agency • Los Angeles, NY

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is a leading entertainment and sports agency with expertise across filmed and live entertainment, digital media, publishing, sponsorship sales and endorsements, licensing, media finance, consumer investing, fashion, trademark licensing, and philanthropy. Its culture emphasizes collaboration and exceptional client service.

The Brand Consulting Senior Account Manager will lead the strategic management and activation of Olympics partnerships across a portfolio of beauty brands. Working across beauty, sports, entertainment, culture, and consumer marketing, the role will shape Olympic programs from strategy through execution. The Senior Account Manager will lead complex workstreams, guide cross-functional teams, manage client relationships, and advise on how a global beauty company can use the Olympic platform to drive brand relevance, consumer engagement, and business impact. The role works day to day with brand clients and senior stakeholders, and partners with internal and external vendors, agencies, properties, and rights holders.

The position is based in the New York or Los Angeles office. The department offers a flexible work schedule and requires at least three days per week onsite. The role includes travel and onsite event work, potentially outside normal business hours. Annual base salary is $98,000 to $135,000 in either location, and the role is eligible for benefits and a discretionary bonus.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, or a similar discipline.
• 6–8+ years of relevant experience in sports marketing, sponsorship activation, brand consulting, or an integrated agency environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing Olympics, large-scale sports, entertainment, or global brand partnerships.
• Experience working with global brands, complex brand portfolios, and multi-market stakeholder groups.
• Familiarity with Olympic, LA28, Team USA, NGB, athlete, talent, or rights-holder approval processes.
• Ability to independently lead complex integrated marketing programs from strategy through execution.
• Strong client-management skills, including building trust, managing expectations, and communicating with senior stakeholders.
• Experience developing executive-ready presentations, strategic points of view, and client-facing recommendations.
• Experience overseeing budgets, timelines, approvals, vendor relationships, and cross-functional workstreams.
• Ability to travel and be onsite at events, including outside normal business hours.
• Strong knowledge of sponsorship activation, rights management, experiential marketing, content, social, PR, and consumer engagement.
• Established relationships across sports, entertainment, beauty, lifestyle, or consumer marketing industries.
• Solutions-oriented and resourceful, with a strong network of vendor and partner relationships.
• Strong negotiation, executive-ready presentation, written communication, PowerPoint, and Excel skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and project components simultaneously on tight timelines.
• Experience mentoring or managing junior team members.

Nice To Haves

• Beauty, fashion, luxury, consumer products, or lifestyle marketing experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic and day-to-day management of Olympics partnerships and serve as a senior point of contact for CAA, client teams, properties, rights holders, and external partners.
• Own complex activation workstreams across campaigns, events, content, hospitality, talent, retail, social, PR, and experiential programs.
• Develop integrated sponsorship activation strategies that align Olympic partnership rights with brand objectives, consumer insights, and cultural moments.
• Manage concurrent brand and property programs, including project plans, timelines, budgets, approvals, deliverables, contractual assets, promotions, and event execution.
• Provide proactive strategic recommendations and clear points of view to influence client decisions and advance business priorities.
• Coordinate with Legal, Finance, Procurement, Data & Analytics, Creative, Talent, and other CAA teams to support seamless execution.
• Identify trends across beauty, sports, entertainment, culture, and consumer marketing and translate them into Olympic partnership opportunities.
• Support measurement planning and performance evaluation with Data & Analytics, translating results into actionable client recommendations.
• Contribute to organic growth and new business through insights, research, strategic thinking, proposal development, and pitch support.
• Develop and deliver communications, presentations, and status materials for internal and external stakeholders.
• Build relationships across CAA to identify opportunities, resources, and cross-functional client support.
• Mentor junior team members through guidance, feedback, best practices, and day-to-day oversight of assigned workstreams.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Basic life and AD&D insurance
• Telemedicine
• Employee assistance and mental health counseling in person, virtually, or through text
• 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
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts for health care and dependent care
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary life and AD&D insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Other statutory mandated benefits
• Discretionary bonus

What This Job Offers

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