Art Director, Broadcast CBS Sports

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The ideal candidate for this position will be an initiative-taking, highly creative proactive individual who possesses robust people skills and has 5+ years’ experience in sports graphics creation and execution environment. The Art Director will be a part of a robust, multi-faceted network sports on-air graphics department that supports both remote events and live studio programming.

• Oversee day to day creative output of the graphics department
• Develop concepts and ideas for a variety of on-air productions
• Direct, guide and mentor junior artists and animators
• Expert design skills utilizing the Adobe Creative Suite
• 3D design skills, including modeling, lighting and animating
• Ability to communicate concepts and design expectations to third party design houses
• Ability to integrate graphics and animations into complex production environments
• Creative leader for both CBS Network, Sports Network Cable and Digital
• Work with the department head in improving efficiency of the team and the overall department through technological improvements
• Collaborate with outside graphics to unify our graphics look and the CBS Sports brand
• Consult on the design direction of our expanded brand CBS , CBS Sports HQ and create a unified voice for the CBS Sports brand
• Collaborate with CBS interactive on shared properties
• Oversee the content creation of sets across cable and broadcast shows
• Work with outside agencies and freelancers to build out show packages
• Ability to communicate concepts and design expectations to third party design houses
• Ability to integrate graphics and animations into complex production environments

4–5+ years of professional experience in a media, sports, broadcast, entertainment, or agency environment, with a solid knowledge of the dynamic nature of live sports production

• Experience designing a show package using motion design/3d graphics from start to finish
  • Concept design to execution
• Advanced 3D graphics skills, including c4d, Blender, Maya, 3ds Max, and Adobe AFX

Clear in sharing creative ideas and helpful feedback

Collaborative with designers, producers, management, and partners from other teams

Hands‑on creative ability — someone who is comfortable jumping into the work, designing, developing concepts, and problem‑solving alongside the team rather than solely managing from a distance

Ability to take creative direction from senior leadership, particularly the VP of Graphics/Creative, and translate high‑level vision into compelling, executable creative solutions

Proven ability to provide creative direction to designers and artists, helping establish visual direction, elevate concepts, and maintain a consistent creative standard across projects

Collaborative team player who thrives in a highly collaborative environment and can work closely with producers, directors, editors, animators, technologists, and other creative teams

A solid insight of sports storytelling and visual communication is required

Ability to create engaging visuals from complex sports stories, statistics, personalities, and moments

Ability to work proficiently under tension and within tight deadlines, particularly in a live sports environment where…