Creative Director
GameClub is on the hunt for a visionary Creative Director to lead a high-performance, cross-discipline creative team. This is a perfect opportunity for a confident, talented, and personable professional to drive art direction and creative storytelling for an emerging media brand. We’re an agile company that thrives on the creative freedom, versatility, and team spirit of our content partners. We’re looking for someone who can absorb written or spoken ideas and convert them seamlessly into images, layouts, and other designs. This is a hands-on role that requires strong individual creative contribution in addition to engaging, managing, and developing other creative talent.
GameClub is a rapidly growing, venture-backed startup with offices in New York City and Copenhagen. We’re breathing new life into classic, premium mobile game experiences with great care, attention to detail, and an innovative business model.
We offer competitive salary, benefits, equity, and the opportunity to work in two of the greatest cities in the world. Collaborate with people who share your passion for games and make your mark by shaping an exciting new company and building the game industry’s next big thing!
Your role at GameClub:
- Drive visual asset creation in partnership with the in-house art team, freelancers, and agencies
- Work directly with product and marketing team members to understand their creative needs, then translate them into direction for successful execution
- Help strategize new opportunities and improvements for advertising across various channels from paid social, email, web, and more
- Lead creative decision-making on campaigns: Oversee and guide the development from treatments to scripts to final edits to distribution; maintain accountability for the success of the campaign
- Write compelling copy to complement the visual creative that drives home the value of GameClub for our players
- Successfully manage a project team of creatives — designers, writers, editors, animators — and direct their work toward the best possible outcomes
- Create stunning presentations to communicate the opportunity of GameClub to content providers and investors
- Continually help to define processes to effectively deliver quality creative in a fast-paced environment
In summary, drive the creative design and direction for:
- User acquisition campaigns
- In-game ads
- GameClub branded elements
- Social media, web, and community
- Lifecycle marketing campaigns
- All App Store storefronts across every country, includes app icons, screenshots, trailers, featuring artwork
We’re looking for somebody with the following qualifications:
- Strong, independent designer with a proven track record of delivering stunning visual design across channels and especially on mobile devices
- 5+ years’ experience as an art director or creative director, 3+ within an agency environment
- 5+ years’ experience in games or digital media
- Demonstrated leadership in producing content across mobile, web, and video
- An understanding of and active interest in branded content and advertising
- A proven ability to tell unexpected stories visually in thoughtful and unique ways across multiple platforms, especially mobile
- Ability to conceive and adapt creative narratives that underscore and grow emerging brands
- Excellent knowledge of Adobe suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) required
- Experience with video software a big plus (Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Final Cut, etc.)
- Must be highly proficient in content production processes
- Love of games and strong understanding of mobile gamers’ expectations and market quality standards
- Great communication skills
- Online portfolio reflecting art direction expertise