Job Description

Who We Are

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is the leading entertainment and sports agency, with global expertise in filmed and live entertainment, digital media, publishing, sponsorship sales and endorsements, media finance, consumer investing, fashion, trademark licensing, and philanthropy. Distinguished by its culture of collaboration and exceptional client service, CAA’s diverse workforce identifies, innovates, and amplifies opportunities for the people and organizations that shape culture and inspire the world. The trailblazer of the agency business, CAA was the first to build a sports business, create an investment bank, launch a venture fund, found technology start-up companies, establish a philanthropic arm, build a business in China, and form a brand marketing services division, among other innovations. Named Most Valuable Sports Agency by Forbes for eight consecutive years, CAA represents more than 2,000 of the world’s top athletes in football, baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, in addition to coaches, on-air broadcasters, and sports personalities and works in the areas of broadcast rights, corporate marketing initiatives, social impact, and sports properties for sales and sponsorship opportunities.

Founded in 1975, CAA is headquartered in Los Angeles, and has offices in New York, Nashville, Memphis, Chicago, Miami, London, Munich, Geneva, Stockholm, Shanghai, and Beijing, among other locations globally. 

The Department

CAA Brand Consulting is a strategy-led, full-service marketing agency with expertise in Cultural and Consumer Insights, Data and Analytics, Talent/Influencer and Property Partnership Advisory, Experiential, Social Impact, Creative Services, and Content and Digital Strategy. These integrated capabilities come together to offer solutions from planning through execution, and we pull in a collective perspective of expertise with each client brief to ensure we are tapping into diverse thinking and building strategies reflective of the marketplace and culture we work within.

The Role

The CAA Brand Consulting Account Executive will support a leading financial services client as an integrated member of the client account team. The Account Executive will help manage the day-to-day strategy, planning, and activation of marquee partnerships across college athletics programs and a sports league, with the potential to support music festival partnerships. The candidate will interface regularly with the client and collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams, rights holders, vendors, agencies, and other external partners to deliver programs that build awareness, deepen audience engagement, and support measurable business objectives.

Essential Functions:

• Provide day-to-day support for the client’s partnership portfolio, including college athletics programs, a sports league, and potential music festival properties.
• Maintain integrated project plans, activation calendars, budgets, status reports, and partnership asset trackers across multiple properties and markets.
• Support the planning and execution of contractual assets, promotions, experiential programs, hospitality, talent, content, community initiatives, and other property-specific activations.
• Coordinate with rights holders, teams, venues, festival operators, vendors, talent representatives, and agencies to confirm deliverables, approvals, production requirements, and on-site logistics.
• Support the creative development of marketing materials, digital content, experiential assets, and event-related creative, including collaboration with designers and management of internal and client approvals.
• Partner with CAA Data & Analytics to support measurement frameworks, proof-of-performance reporting, recap materials, and optimization recommendations.
• Work closely with Creative, Experiential, Strategy, Insights, and other account functions to ensure programs align with the client’s brand, audience, and business objectives.
• Develop presentations, meeting materials, agendas, notes, and executive-ready recaps for internal and external stakeholders.
• Monitor timelines, identify risks and dependencies, and proactively recommend solutions to keep multiple concurrent workstreams moving forward.
• Support on-site execution at games, events, hospitality programs, and potential music festivals, including occasional travel and work outside standard business hours.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or similar discipline.
• 1-2+ years’ experience in sports, entertainment, or experiential marketing within a consulting environment, agency, rights holder, or brand.
• Demonstrated project management experience, with the ability to manage multiple properties, markets, and workstreams simultaneously.
• Experience supporting sponsorship activations, experiential programs, hospitality, talent, content, or event execution.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the confidence to work across client, property, and agency stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Slack, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint, as well as Google Workspace.
• Exceptional attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
• Ability to think quickly, exercise sound judgment, and remain composed in a fast-paced agency environment.
• Ability to balance and advance multiple projects and project components on tight timelines.
• Collaborative, proactive, and solution-oriented approach.
• Ability to travel and attend games, events, and activations outside normal business hours, as needed.

Preferred Skills:

• Agency or brand consulting experience preferred.
• Knowledge of college athletics, baseball, and live music or festival partnerships.
• Experience working with financial services brands or within a regulated category.
• Experience supporting multi-market or national sponsorship platforms, including community-based activations.
• Familiarity with partnership measurement, proof-of-performance reporting, and post-event recaps.

Location

This role will be located in our New York or Los Angeles office. The Brand Consulting department offers a flexible work schedule and requires a minimum of three days per week on-site.

Compensation

The annual base salary for this position is in the range of $67,000 - $75,000 for New York and $70,000 - $75,000 for Los Angeles. This position is also eligible for benefits and a discretionary bonus. Ultimately, the salary may vary based on, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, business sector, and geographic location, among other criteria. Please talk with a CAA Recruiter to learn more.

Creative Artists Agency, LLC (the “Company”) is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate on the basis of race (inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including hair texture and protective hairstyles), color, religion, creed, gender or sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), national origin, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, family and medical care leave status, military or veteran status, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, political affiliation, an employee’s or their dependent’s reproductive health decision making (e.g., the decision to use or access a particular drug, device or medical service), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

The absence of a permanent address is not a bar to employment. The Company does not discriminate against individuals based on housing status, including the absence of a fixed address.

The Company also complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws with regard to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities.

CAA does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless they were contractually engaged by CAA to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any such employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the acknowledgement and agreement that CAA will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.