Senior Vice President, Brand and Creative Services

Responsibilities

• Set the vision for UTA’s in-house brand studio, defining the creative marketing strategy, operating model, and principles that enable the agency to super serve our clients across the funnel, from pursuit to growth.
• Own and continually evolve UTA’s global brand identity and creative system, establishing visual and verbal principles that make UTA distinctive and recognizable across every touchpoint.
• Partner with division heads, business leaders, and agents to increase pitch conversion, strengthen client retention, enhance partner relationships, and contribute to the growth of strategic revenue opportunities across the agency.
• Lead the end-to-end creative development and operating model for high-stakes pitch decks, branded content proposals, case studies, and executive presentations that advance UTA’s business with talent, brands, platforms, and strategic partners.
• Shape how UTA translates our leadership position in culture; build UTA’s look and feel to rise above in the worlds of filmed entertainment, live entertainment, the creator economy, brand advisory, and publishing.
• Become a trusted agency voice who can speak on how fandoms, creator ecosystems, entertainment IP, live entertainment, and cultural trends can translate into compelling opportunities for talent, brands, and platforms.
• Collaborate with UTA IQ, the agency’s data and analytics arm, in the development of culture-driven thought leadership—think emerging trend reports, consumer insights, creator opportunities, and cultural shifts—that can support client growth strategies and UTA leadership.
• With the broader Communications team, translate key messaging and capabilities into a suite of creative assets; build out a suite of corporate assets including high-level corporate decks, one-pagers, and other core material.
• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary creative team across design, copy, and strategy, creating a fulfilling environment that raises the bar for craft, accountability, speed, and collaboration.
• Create scalable systems, templates, workflows, and review processes that improve quality, consistency, prioritization, and speed across a high-volume creative services environment.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive experience in creative services, branded content, creative strategy, or agency-side creative leadership, ideally within entertainment, media, talent, brand, or culturally fluent creative environments
• A track record of leading creative work that has influenced major brands, platform, entertainment, or talent partnerships, with a portfolio that demonstrates exceptional storytelling, visual taste, and executive-level presentation craft.
• Proven experience building and leading high-performing creative teams, including setting vision, developing talent, managing priorities, and creating the systems needed to deliver consistently excellent work at scale.
• Exceptional narrative instincts and strategic judgment, with the ability to connect talent, culture, audience behavior, brand objectives, and commercial opportunities in ways that are clear, persuasive, and differentiated.
• Executive presence and credibility with senior stakeholders, including the ability to advise, challenge, align, and influence leaders across creative, business, marketing, communications, and client-facing teams.
• Fluency in the tools, formats, and workflows of modern creative development, including Adobe Creative Suite, Keynote, PowerPoint, Google Slides, motion, video, and emerging presentation formats.
• Strong operational discipline and comfort leading in a fast-paced, high-volume, deadline-driven environment where quality, speed, prioritization, and stakeholder management are equally important.
• A deep passion for entertainment, culture, talent, brands, and the evolving ways companies build relevance through storytelling, influence, and creativity

Benefits

• The unique and exciting opportunity to work at one of a leading global entertainment companies
• Access to the tools, leadership, and resources you will need to create and drive a center of excellence
• The opportunity to do the best work of your career
• Work in an inclusive and diverse company culture
• Competitive programs to support your well-being
• Experience working in a collaborative environment with room to grow