Senior Associate, Creative Services

Job Description

LA28 does not provide relocation assistance for any positions. If you are based outside the Los Angeles area, we still welcome your application — we value talent from all geographic backgrounds and want to hear from you if you are able to work on-site in LA.

Role Purpose

As Senior Associate, Creative Services, you will bring the LA28 brand to life across everything people see, touch, and experience. Working from intake through final execution, you will translate stakeholder needs into strategic, visually compelling design — presentations, campaign assets, environmental graphics, and branded collateral. In the years leading up to the Games, you will help establish scalable design systems that keep a fast-growing brand consistent and bold. You will act as a day-to-day brand steward, elevating storytelling through typography, layout, and visual hierarchy while learning and growing alongside a world-class creative team.

Responsibilities

• Lead creative service requests from intake through final execution across multiple functional areas, managing competing priorities.
• · Translate stakeholder needs into strategic, visually compelling creative that advances major organizational initiatives and campaigns.
• · Develop presentations, campaign assets, environmental graphics, event materials, and branded collateral to a consistently high standard.
• · Establish scalable, reusable design systems while maintaining quality control and production readiness across concurrent projects.
• · Serve as a day-to-day brand steward and mentor junior contributors, shaping the team's creative culture.

Requirements

• 4+ years of agency, in-house, sports, entertainment, experiential, or brand design experience delivering polished, on-brand work.
• · Expertise in Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, and presentation tools, applied fluently across the full design and production process.
• · Advanced understanding of typography, layout systems, visual storytelling, imagery, and building cohesive, scalable brand identity systems.
• · A strong portfolio demonstrating traditional layout design, conceptual design thinking, and executional excellence is required with your application.
• · Proven ability to independently lead multiple projects and influence outcomes, backed by excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills.
• Valued Experience
• · Passion for sport and the Olympic and Paralympic movements.
• · Experience contributing to a team culture of creativity and co-creation.
• · Flexibility and adaptability when priorities and timelines shift.
• · A collaborative approach to cross-vertical ideation and internal feedback.

About LA28

LA28 is the organizing committee for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles. They are responsible for planning, staging, and delivering a Games that will leave a lasting legacy for the city and the Olympic movement. LA28 is notable for its focus on utilizing existing infrastructure and its commitment to making the Games accessible and inclusive.