• 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).

• The Art Director works to conceptualize strategic solutions that achieve goals and generate new ideas. • They oversee designers in the creation of custom designs that are innovative and resonate emotionally with our clients and their audiences. • The Art Director uses their technical skills, product knowledge and thorough research skills to determine which tools and elements to utilize in order to support and represent the design concept. • They strive to do what’s best for the business and work to stay on the forefront of design and technology. • They serve as a technical resource for other designers by providing guidance and training to support the team. • The Art Director actively works to support and assist the Director of Operations and Design Director to meet company and department goals and carry out the mission/vision.

• Define and evolve the creative vision for how the company’s brand is expressed through its digital product, customer experience, and design systems. • Lead creative direction for our product and lifecycle journeys — covering landing experiences, life-cycle marketing, product discovery and application flows, and policy management. • Collaborate with Product Design and Product Management to ensure the company’s identity, tone, and emotion are consistently reflected in every product interaction, from UI to motion to storytelling moments. • Partner with Marketing and Brand teams to maintain cohesion between campaign storytelling and the in-product experience. • Collaborate cross-functionally with leadership to align product aesthetics with company strategy and values. • Lead, mentor, and grow (as necessary) a small but mighty team of creatives. Bring in design specialists to support the vision as needed. • Push creative innovation across the design practice — exploring new ways to bring the brand to life through design systems, visual craft, illustration, animation, motion, graphics, photography, typography, microinteractions and more. • Contribute to create an environment of excellence and growth where team members can do their best work and grow professionally and personally.