JOB DESCRIPTION
Title: Design Lead
Department Code & Name: Marketing (Central) & 303
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: Remote (U.S.-based) with occasional travel for site visits and business-related events
Job Level & Type: People Manager
Job Summary:
LOVB is looking for a Design Lead to help define the visual identity and creative expression of the LOVB Professional Women’s Volleyball League, one of the fastest-growing and most culturally exciting brands in women’s sports.
This role is for a highly creative designer with exceptional taste, strong creative instincts, and a sharp understanding of contemporary culture. We are looking for someone who can help shape visual worlds, not just execute against briefs. Someone with a point of view. Someone deeply inspired by sports, fashion, entertainment, editorial, music, internet culture, and modern storytelling.
Reporting directly to the LOVB Pro Chief Marketing Officer, this director-level designer will work closely with the LOVB Creative Studio to shape how LOVB Pro looks, feels, and moves in the world. Key areas include season creative, social expression, editorial, digital, and social campaigns, along with the visual identity of our most important tentpole events. This is a hands-on role with a small team to grow and help thrive.
We are a small but mighty team making a lot of noise, looking for someone excited to build bold, emotionally resonant, culturally relevant creative in a fast-moving startup environment.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead and elevate the creative expression of LOVB Pro across brand, social, editorial, digital, and experiential touchpoints
- Help shape the visual language, aesthetic direction, and creative identity of the league
- Contribute conceptually to athlete storytelling, tentpole moments, seasonal creative, and league experiences
- Partner with LOVB Pro CMO on project creative, strategy, and the development of extraordinary work that pushes the brand forward
- Partner closely with the SVP of Brand within LOVB Studio to build bold, culturally relevant creative across the LOVB Pro ecosystem
- Help define the look and feel of key LOVB Pro events and experiences
- Translate creative direction into thoughtful, elevated, and culturally relevant visual work
- Maintain a high level of craft, taste, and attention to detail across all outputs
- Stay deeply connected to trends and movements across sports, fashion, entertainment, art, and internet culture
- Help inspire and elevate the overall creative culture of the team
Required & Preferred Skills/Abilities:
- Strong portfolio demonstrating creative thinking, elevated design sensibility, and strong visual storytelling
- Excellent understanding of typography, composition, image-making, art direction, and visual systems
- Strong understanding of social-first creative and how visual storytelling lives across platforms
- Ability to work quickly and collaboratively in a fast-paced startup environment
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Passion for women’s sports, culture, and storytelling is a major plus
Education and Experience:
- 7+ years of professional design experience within sports, fashion, entertainment, media, agency, or culture-driven brands
- Experience building cohesive visual identities and creative worlds across both digital and physical spaces
- Motion design and animation experience is a strong plus
Personal Attributes
- Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with shifting priorities.
- Solutions-oriented and able to identify when to escalate issues or challenges.
- Strong collaborator with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Capable of working independently while effectively partnering with a distributed, remote team.
- Positive, proactive, organized, and creative - brings fresh ideas to problem-solving.
- Highly adaptable and eager to learn in a rapidly evolving environment.
Work Environment & Physical Requirements (Remote):
- Ability to operate a computer and use a keyboard, mouse, and video conferencing tools.
- Ability to clearly communicate via video, phone, and written channels.
- Occasional travel may be required for site visits and events.
About LOVB Studio
LOVB Studio is the in-house creative group behind the visual and creative expression of LOVB. Working across brand, league, content, merchandise, events, social, and storytelling, the studio helps shape how LOVB shows up in culture.
We are a highly collaborative team of creatives building bold, emotionally resonant, and culturally relevant work at the intersection of sports, fashion, entertainment, and design. We care deeply about taste, storytelling, and pushing the creative standard of what women’s sports can look and feel like.
About LOVB
League One Volleyball (LOVB) is building the future of volleyball in America through a first-of-its-kind ecosystem connecting youth, professional, and community experiences. LOVB Pro represents the highest level of the sport, bringing world-class athletes, modern storytelling, and a bold new energy to professional volleyball.
We are building ambitiously, moving quickly, and redefining what women’s sports can look and feel like.
