PBA Lead Designer

Accountabilities

• • Develop high-impact static and animated creative for social platforms, including Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, and X.
  • Design broadcast-ready graphic elements such as lower thirds, transitions, wipes, stat boards, and promotional assets.
  • Create motion graphics packages for tournament weeks, digital campaigns, and major sporting events.
  • Develop premium sales decks, sponsorship presentations, executive materials, and other commercial-facing creative.
  • Create key art and visual identity systems for major events, tournaments, and championships.
  • Establish repeatable design templates and scalable graphic systems that improve creative efficiency and consistency.
  • Maintain strong brand consistency across social, digital, broadcast, presentation, and commercial materials.
  • Collaborate closely with marketing, social, production, and executive stakeholders to translate objectives into compelling visual solutions.
  • Partner with broader design teams on cross-property creative initiatives and ensure visual cohesion across brands.
  • Support live-event workflows with fast, accurate, and high-quality creative execution under tight deadlines.
  • Contribute visual leadership and creative direction across multiple platforms and campaign types.
  • Manage multiple projects and competing priorities while maintaining a high standard of design quality and attention to detail.

  Requirements

  • 3–5+ years of professional graphic design experience, preferably within sports, broadcast, entertainment, media, or similarly fast-paced creative environments.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, or a related field is preferred.
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in social-first creative, motion graphics, broadcast design, and presentation materials.
  • Advanced proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects.
  • Demonstrated ability to create effective designs across both vertical and horizontal formats.
  • Strong understanding of typography, composition, layout, hierarchy, color, and visual identity systems.
  • Experience creating motion graphics and broadcast-oriented visual assets.
  • Ability to develop polished, presentation-ready materials for sales, sponsorship, executive, and commercial audiences.
  • Strong understanding of brand consistency and the ability to apply visual systems across multiple channels.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with creative and non-creative stakeholders.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and tight deadlines.
  • Comfortable working under live-event and rapid-turnaround conditions.
  • Strong creative judgment, attention to detail, organization, and problem-solving skills.
  • Sports, media, or entertainment industry experience is preferred.
  • Ideally based on the U.S. East Coast, with the ability to work effectively in a remote environment.

  Benefits

  • Competitive salary range of $80,000–$90,000.
  • Performance-based incentive opportunities.
  • Competitive total rewards package.
  • Healthcare coverage.
  • Broad range of additional employee benefits and perks.
  • Remote work arrangement, ideally for candidates based on the East Coast.
  • Opportunity to shape the visual identity of a prominent professional sports and entertainment property.
  • High-visibility creative work spanning social media, broadcast, live events, sponsorship, and brand initiatives.