• Define the DNA: Establish the brand’s visual identity, voice, and market positioning. • End-to-End Design: Lead the creation of apparel collections from initial mood boards to production-ready tech packs. • Oversee the 'world-building' of the brand, ensuring the aesthetic translates across product, packaging, and digital presence. • Work directly with global production partners to push the boundaries of material sourcing and construction. • Provide feedback to product and engineering teams to improve our software. • Advise leadership on industry trends, manufacturing best practices, and design innovation. • Join high-stakes calls with key customers to provide expert guidance on scaling their brands.

• Set and safeguard the visual and creative direction for Nood across devices, skincare, and future product lines. • Lead end-to-end creative for launches, campaigns, and content in partnership with the CMO and CEO. • Work hand-in-hand with the Director of Performance Creative to ensure that what we make is not just beautiful, but also high-performing in feed, in email, on site, and in ads. • Act as a creative producer, sourcing and directing external partners (photographers, videographers, stylists, editors, agencies) to execute at a best-in-class level. • Eventually, help spearhead creative direction for new brands or concepts developed under the broader Nood umbrella. • Own and evolve Nood’s visual identity and design system across digital, physical, and experiential channels. • Ensure every touchpoint (website, packaging, campaigns, emails, social, retailer presence) feels unmistakably brand aligned. • Partner with the CMO and CEO to turn product strategy into clear creative platforms and launches. • Create compelling storytelling frameworks for our core and new products that translate seamlessly across web, social, email, retail, and paid. • Act as a creative producer for Nood: scope and brief shoots (photo and video), from casting and styling to locations and shot lists. • Lead creative direction for packaging and unboxing, sleeves, kits, and limited-edition executions in collaboration with the CMO and CEO. • Own the creative direction of Nood’s digital experience: homepage, PDPs, landing pages, campaign hubs, education content, and merchandising narratives.

• Concept, design, and implement high-level creative branding, display advertising, print, web, illustrations/infographics, and presentations based on creative briefs. • Ensure that quality and brand standards are maintained throughout the entire creative process. • Lead, inspire, and oversee a team of creatives, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment. • Establish close partnerships across the company, and liaise with marketing and corporate design teams to ensure deadlines are met. • Provide guidance and direction in the creation of visually stunning designs for marketing materials, executive presentations, websites, digital ads, and other assets. • Manage work timelines effectively across multiple projects. • Present work to internal partners that consistently meets or exceeds expectations. • Iterate and edit design work based on team feedback. • Act as a supporting role for the Corporate Creative Director. • Stay informed of industry trends, competitor activities, and market insights to guide creative decisions and strategies, ensuring a competitive edge that leads to increased engagement and conversions.

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description Elsewhere is hiring an Art Lead to define a stunning visual style for our upcoming game. We’re a venture-backed indie studio working on a surreal card game set inside your own dreaming mind. We aim for the project to combine the soul of a stellar indie title with the strategic depth and replayability of collective card games and deckbuilding roguelikes, ultimately becoming a forever-game that reaches millions of players. - This role will own and define the art style from end-to-end for our game. - You’ll create art samples, collaborate on moodboards, and finally create the key art that defines our game. - You’ll create tons of amazing art within the visual style you created with us. - You’ll also help manage more junior artists to work within that style. Our game incorporates generative AI in a way that celebrates (rather than replaces) human art. It’s not necessary for you to have used generative AI in your own projects or have any experience at all. But we ask that you be open-minded towards it. This is a contract-to-hire position. Work will begin with paid trial projects. If things go well, we’d love for you to join our team full-time with salary and benefits. Qualifications - You love to draw and have an extensive portfolio of art you’ve made over the years in a diversity of styles. - You’re incredibly strong at illustration and concept art, having created countless original characters. - You love games and the culture surrounding them deeply, with experience playing more games than you can count across genres. - Bonus points if you’re a fan of tabletop or deckbuilding games. - You have strong opinions about what great art direction looks like in games. - You’ve made a game (side project, indie, or AAA) and can point to specific art you owned from concept to completion in your portfolio. - You can define, iterate on, and communicate an art style that’s stunning and distinctive to junior artists. - You have a strong personal aesthetic and a comprehensive portfolio of art, with bonus points for work that is highly colorful and stylized. - You’re experienced with tools like Photoshop, Procreate, and Illustrator. - Bonus points if you’ve worked with Figma or 3D tools like Blender. - You’re enthusiastic or at least open-minded about the ways the latest generative AI technologies can augment creative talent. - You're ambitious and want to be an early part of something big with massive potential. - You’re collaborative and excited to work closely with our community and whole team to create a unified vision. Requirements - Love for (and participation in) a fandom of any kind. - Experience working on a small team, ideally in a startup environment. - Experience working as an Art Lead, Art Director (or similar role), leading and/or mentoring other artists. - Experience and intuition working on visual, UI/UX, and product design in Figma or similar. - Experience with sharing your work on social media or video. - Being based in San Francisco, CA (or being open to relocate).