Lead a team of marketing designers, illustrators, and motion artists from project ideation and conceptual development to delivery

Coach, mentor, and provide career path guidance to the team

Develop concepts and positioning for user acquisition campaigns across multiple games (including existing game art work along with new creative ideas)

Drive the creative brainstorm sessions to guide the conversion of creative ideas into effective art and copy

Direct and assign workflow while supervising and implementing design process  

Incorporate marketing data to help drive ongoing art direction and creative process 

Partner closely with marketing team to achieve user growth goals

Creatively support the lifecycle of a game from soft launch to worldwide launch 

Manage team leads and/or individual contributors including performance tracking with ongoing training, development of direct reports (<40% of time is devoted to managerial responsibilities)

Provide necessary artistic/vision guidance with thorough documentation and frequent feedback to team

Oversee the delivery of tasks from design team members and is accountable for the quality of final handoff and meeting deadlines

Attend/participate in higher level meetings with other team leads/managers to facilitate higher level project scheduling and create assignments and task distribution and tracking

Attend and participate in project review meetings with executives studio leadership including review of business metrics

Communicate high level business and process directives to team with direction from VP of User Acquisition

May help to set the marketing strategy for products by working with internal and external partners to execute marketing tasks

Minimum 3+ years of experience as a lead artist or art director

Minimum 5+ years of production experience, with a solid understanding of the game development process

BFA or equivalent

Highly proficient in fine art, illustration, and animation fundamentals

Highly proficient In latest version of Adobe Creative Suite essentially Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator and Premiere Pro

Experience in motion graphic design, 3D skills a plus

Advanced use of tools like Confluence and Jira, SVN

Excellent communication and leadership skills

Excellent project management skills

Excellent at managing, mentoring & developing large teams

Robust experience with marketing/advertising design a plus ( game industry a plus)

Able to prioritize work flow for team, experience with juggling multiple clients and projects

Comfortable presenting to senior management

Drive to consistently improve as an artist and mentor

Creative, Flexible, Collaborative and Innovative

Ability to work in a variety of styles with team of varying skillsets and experience levels

Strong specialization managing multiple art disciplines

Able to inspire and motivate others through projects and in day to-day work

Able to communicate to all levels of leadership across disciplines

Level-headed, logical and 100% reliable

Committed and Curious; eager and willing to learn from peers and leaders to enhance performance and expand job knowledge.

Proactive, consistently seeks challenges and responsibilities that go above and beyond without being asked

Continually looks for ways to improve oneself by building and maintaining technical strength in areas essential for superior job