Sr. Graphic Designer

This description•Denver, CO

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Kroenke Sports & Entertainment is seeking a creative, strategic, and collaborative Senior Graphic Designer to develop visual storytelling and brand experiences across its professional sports teams, venues, and business operations. The role develops design solutions that support revenue-generating initiatives, corporate partnerships, and KSE property brands, including the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Colorado Mammoth, and Ball Arena. The ideal candidate brings strong creative ability and business acumen and can produce integrated campaigns across digital, social, experiential, print, sponsorship, and sales platforms. The designer develops original creative concepts for sponsorship activation, entitlement, fan engagement, community initiatives, and other programs; maintains brand standards; and creates partnership presentations, pitch materials, recaps, mockups, renderings, and activation concepts. The role collaborates with partnership teams and provides creative direction and feedback to internal team members and external vendors. The position also prepares production-ready files for print, digital, environmental graphics, and large-format installations, and coordinates with printers, fabrication partners, venue operations, and production vendors. Game-night, event, playoff, concert, and venue activation support may be needed. The position is based in Denver, Colorado, and reports to the VP, Strategy.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, visual communications, fine arts, or a related field.
3–5 years of professional design experience.
Exceptional portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking and multi-channel campaign execution.
Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign; Figma; and PowerPoint.
Strong understanding of brand identity systems, typography, layout and composition, digital design, print production, and environmental graphics.
Ability to acquire or produce and maintain a valid driver’s license and meet company vehicle driving standards.
Ability to maintain a positive attitude and demonstrate professionalism.
Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality.
Demonstrated creative excellence, strategic thinking, visual storytelling, brand development, presentation design, collaboration, project management, attention to detail, adaptability, time management, and problem solving.

Nice To Haves

Professional design experience within sports, entertainment, an agency, media, or consumer brands.

Responsibilities

Develop original creative concepts for entitlement, sponsorship activation, fan engagement, community initiatives, and other programs.
Maintain and evolve brand standards and ensure visual consistency across channels.
Design custom partnership presentations, sponsorship recaps, pitch materials, and activation concepts to support new business and renewals.
Collaborate with Partnership Development, Partnership Marketing, and Partnership Strategy and Solutions teams to visualize sponsorship opportunities and revenue-generating assets.
Develop mockups, renderings, and branded concepts for prospective partners.
Provide art direction and constructive feedback to internal creative team members and external vendors.
Participate in creative reviews, campaign planning sessions, and cross-functional brainstorming meetings.
Help establish creative best practices, workflows, and standards.
Prepare production-ready files for print, digital, environmental graphics, and large-format installations.
Coordinate with printers, fabrication partners, venue operations, and production vendors to ensure quality execution.
Support game nights, marquee events, special campaigns, playoffs, concerts, and venue activations as needed.
Perform game-day responsibilities as needed, including recaps and creative reviews.