Responsibilities

• Creative Direction: Guide the development of visuals, messaging, and content that bring the brand story to life across all platforms.
• Cultural Relevance: Focus on bringing the brand back to the forefront of cultural relevance, ensuring that campaigns resonate with the cultural zeitgeist.
• Brand Consistency: Ensure that all external communications align with the brand’s voice, positioning, and strategic vision, maintaining a unified brand presence across all channels.
• Global Campaign Consistency: Ensure that global campaigns are executed consistently across all territories, collaborating with Product Marketing to support local adaptations while maintaining the core brand message.
• Provide high level guidance, iterative review and approval of Warcraft related materials in all franchise extensions
• Conceptualize and design for online ad campaigns while adhering to the visual quality of the brand
• Solve complex visual problems and turn them into beautifully clear designed solutions that reinforce the brand
• Build strong relationships with support cross-functional partners, identify key creative leaders for partnership, and further shared creative values and goals
• Manage multiple projects from start to finish while keeping multiple stakeholders both in and out of the organization appropriately informed and engaged

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in art leadership as an Art Director, Designer, or Illustrator either in-house or at a creative agency
• 5+ years of experience in brand marketing
• 3+ years of demonstrated people management experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Art, Design, Marketing, related field or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrated successes collaborating with across departments and with external agencies
• Detailed project management skills and ability to maintain strategic view of all work
• Previous experience successfully managing creative people including designers and artists

Preferred

• Creative Director experience
• Strong layout and design skills
• Broadcast media art direction experience
• Consumer product design and packaging design experience
• Illustration abilities
• Passion for gaming and understanding of current industry trends
• Excellent analytical, verbal, and written skills
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.