Senior Vice President, Brand and Creative Services

United Talent Agency • Los Angeles, CA

8d • $450,000 - $500,000

About The Position

UTA is seeking a Senior Vice President, Brand and Creative Services to lead and elevate its global in-house creative studio. Reporting to the Chief Global Communications Officer, this executive will guide creative strategy, brand identity, and design across client strategy and growth and UTA’s corporate brand. The role calls for deep expertise in building modern brands and a strong understanding of the entertainment, sports, media, technology, and cultural landscape.

The SVP will oversee designers, creative strategists, and freelancers, partnering with division heads, agents, and executives on a high volume of critical creative work, including pitch decks, creative positioning, identity systems, campaign narratives, and event creative. The role also owns UTA’s global brand and oversees marketing creative, partnering with communications, editorial, events, content, and external teams to advance the agency’s brand and market positioning. Work spans graphic, digital, and narrative design for marketing collateral, owned media, events and experiences, storytelling, internal communications, and sales enablement.

The leader will build a best-in-class creative team and operating model, develop scalable processes and systems, manage the studio budget and resources, and assess emerging creative technologies. Success includes delivering innovative work that supports UTA’s client service, brand perception, engagement, pitch conversion, client growth, and business outcomes. The anticipated salary is approximately $450,000–$500,000, commensurate with experience, skills, and qualifications.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive experience in creative services, branded content, creative strategy, or agency-side creative leadership.
• A track record of leading creative work influencing major brand, platform, entertainment, or talent partnerships.
• A portfolio demonstrating exceptional storytelling, visual taste, and executive-level presentation craft.
• Proven experience building and leading high-performing creative teams, setting vision, developing talent, managing priorities, and establishing systems for excellent work at scale.
• Exceptional narrative instincts and strategic judgment, connecting talent, culture, audience behavior, brand objectives, and commercial opportunities.
• Executive presence and credibility with senior stakeholders, with the ability to advise, challenge, align, and influence leaders across creative, business, marketing, communications, and client-facing teams.
• Fluency in modern creative development tools, formats, and workflows, including Adobe Creative Suite, Keynote, PowerPoint, Google Slides, motion, video, and emerging presentation formats.
• Operational discipline and the ability to lead in a fast-paced, high-volume, deadline-driven environment while balancing quality, speed, prioritization, and stakeholder management.
• Deep passion for entertainment, culture, talent, brands, and the evolving ways companies build relevance through storytelling, influence, and creativity.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in entertainment, media, talent, brand, or culturally fluent creative environments.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision, creative marketing strategy, operating model, and principles for UTA’s in-house brand studio.
• Own and evolve UTA’s global brand identity and creative system, including visual and verbal principles across touchpoints.
• Partner with division heads, business leaders, and agents to support pitch conversion, client retention, partner relationships, and strategic revenue growth.
• Lead end-to-end creative development and operations for pitch decks, branded content proposals, case studies, and executive presentations.
• Shape UTA’s visual identity and cultural positioning across filmed and live entertainment, the creator economy, brand advisory, and publishing.
• Represent UTA’s perspective on fandoms, creator ecosystems, entertainment IP, live entertainment, and cultural trends as opportunities for talent, brands, and platforms.
• Collaborate with UTA IQ on culture-driven thought leadership, including trend reports, consumer insights, creator opportunities, and analysis of cultural shifts.
• Work with Communications to turn messaging and capabilities into creative assets, including corporate decks, one-pagers, and other core materials.
• Lead, develop, and support a multidisciplinary creative team across design, copy, and strategy.
• Create scalable systems, templates, workflows, and review processes to improve quality, consistency, prioritization, and speed.
• Collaborate with the editorial team to evolve storytelling and design across social media, video, photography, and digital sites.
• Evaluate and integrate emerging creative technologies, including AI-enabled content development, storytelling, visualization, and workflow tools.
• Own the studio budget, resource strategy, and external partner ecosystem, determining when to use in-house capabilities or external providers.
• Establish measures of success for creative contributions to brand perception, engagement, pitch conversion, client growth, and other business outcomes.

Benefits

• Access to the tools, leadership, and resources needed to create and drive a center of excellence.
• The opportunity to do the best work of your career.
• An inclusive and diverse company culture.
• Competitive programs to support well-being.
• A collaborative environment with room to grow.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed