Designer
Genius Sports is seeking a Designer to join its Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO) team. The role involves shaping and evolving programmatic and social campaign creative for ad-creative customers, requiring exceptional art direction skills and a strong command of industry-standard design software.
The Designer will develop briefs into strategic solutions, generate new concepts, and ensure creative executions are effective across diverse digital placements and formats. Working within the internal agency, Genius Sports Creative, the role offers exposure to various brand, marketing, and broadcast projects while pushing the standards of design systems and art direction.
- Act as a champion and guardian of clients’ brand identities, ensuring consistency and creative excellence.
- Develop high-level creative concepts with minimal oversight, bringing fresh, unexpected ideas to the table.
- Lead the development of concept-driven campaigns and scalable design systems.
- Define forward-thinking art direction solutions that guide image-making and content ecosystems across multiple platforms.
- Translate strategic narratives into distinctive, ownable visual executions that flex across diverse digital placements.
- Establish clear visual territories through mood systems, reference frameworks, compositional principles, and narrative guidelines.
- Collaborate across disciplines including strategy, copywriting, motion, and technology to build complete performance-based campaigns.
- Balance multiple projects and clients, delivering compelling creative solutions on tight deadlines.
- Produce inspiring and provocative work that connects and engages audiences.
- Leverage AI-powered content creation tools to concept, visualize, and prototype design solutions.
- A portfolio that demonstrates concept-driven performance campaign creative, strong art direction thinking, and the ability to build cohesive visual systems that scale across touchpoints. (required)
- 3 years of experience in an agency, in-house design studio, or related creative field. (preferred)
- Deep understanding of the creative process-beyond just campaign execution and production design. (required)
- Ability to work independently while contributing meaningfully to a collaborative team environment. (required)
- Strong design sensibility, with an ability to craft visually stunning and strategically sound work. (required)
- Expert proficiency in industry standard software such as Figma, Illustrator, and Photoshop. (required)
- Proven experience developing campaign-level creative. (required)
- Strong command of photographic language, visual storytelling, and contemporary content aesthetics. (required)
- Demonstrated proficiency with AI-powered content, prompting and image generation. (required)
- Outstanding organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities. (required)
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to work seamlessly with traffic/project managers, account managers, and developers. (required)
- Experience in motion design or 3D. (nice-to-have)
- The salary for this role is based on an annualized salary range of $70,000 - $80,000.
- This role will also be eligible to take part in Genius Sports Group's benefits plan.
- As well as a competitive salary and range of benefits, Genius Sports is committed to supporting employee wellbeing and helping you grow your skills, experience and career.
Genius Sports is a sports data and technology company that supplies official data, streaming, integrity and advertising services to sports leagues, sportsbooks and media companies. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in London, with a major office in New York and others worldwide, it is the official data partner of organisations including the NFL, English Premier League and FIBA. The company provides the technology that connects sports, betting and media businesses. Genius Sports is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.