• Lead and Develop the Creative Team — You’ll manage and mentor a team of two Senior Creatives, overseeing their growth, day-to-day output, and creative development. You resource them strategically across incoming projects and pitches, match the right creative to the right brief, and create the conditions for them to do their best work. You push the thinking—reviewing concepts with a sharp eye, asking the harder questions, and elevating ideas from good to great. • Vet Incoming Briefs and Set Creative Direction — Before a brief hits the team, it comes through you. You’ll assess incoming requests, ask the right questions to sharpen the creative problem, and set a clear direction that gives the team a running start. You know how to identify which briefs have real creative potential and how to reframe the ones that don’t—yet. • Be a Senior Creative in Your Own Right — This isn’t a purely managerial role. You’ll lean in and contribute directly to the work—reviewing and pushing concepts and presenting the work—especially on the highest-stakes pitches where Collectively’s creative reputation is on the line. You lead by example, and your creative instincts are as sharp as ever. • Represent Collectively In-Market — You’ll show up as a senior creative voice for Collectively in client conversations, industry events, and pitch settings—building relationships, establishing credibility, and putting a human face on our creative ambition. You’re comfortable in the room and know how to make the work land. • Turn Insights into Ideas — Great creative doesn’t start from a blank page—it starts from a tension. You’ll work closely with strategists to absorb audience research, digital trend signals, and category context, then guide the team in transforming that raw material into ideas with genuine creative conflict at their core: the friction between what a brand stands for and what culture is demanding, between what Gen Z expects and what surprises them, between the familiar and the unexpected. That tension is what makes ideas magnetic. • Collaborate Closely with Peer Teams — You’ll work in close partnership with your peers across Client Strategy, Business Development, and Strategic Development to build integrated, best-in-class work. This isn’t a handoff culture—you’re in the room together from brief to presentation, bringing creative thinking to bear at every stage and making sure strategy and creative are building toward the same vision. You thrive in this kind of collaborative environment and know that the best work comes from those relationships being tight. • Cross-Functional Partnership — You’ll partner closely with Business Development and Client Partnerships to bring creative thinking to business opportunities across net new pitches and key client programs. You’re comfortable moving between teams and genuinely enjoy the variety—one week cracking a campaign for a big CPG brand, the next in the world of luxury, beauty, or B2B tech. You flex your creative instincts to fit the category without losing your edge. And while social is home base, you’re equally comfortable thinking beyond it: from influencer-led events and experiential activations to influencer-led TV spots and fully integrated campaigns that show up everywhere a brand needs to be. • Tapped into Culture + Trends — You’ll help lead creative trend reporting and POV development, keeping teams wired into what’s shaping digital culture, social platforms, and Gen Z behavior in real time. You know the difference between a trend worth chasing and one that’s already peaked—and you know how to use that intelligence to build creative ideas with longevity, not just virality.

• Collaborate with departmental leads to create project briefs • Build strong client relationships through creative ideation, recommendations, and support • Present creative concepts and strategies to clients and other cross-functional teams • Provides insight and expertise about the brands, disease states, clinical trials and data, and competitive products, as well as on all relevant media and technology • Take initiative to uncover/create unique marketing initiatives that deliver upon client strategies • Accountable for producing high quality art assets and managing any 3rd party vendors to do so • Assist in managing day-to-day operations of the design team, including setting priorities, assigning resources, and ensuring project goals are achieved • Work with the CDs to motivate and encourage the creative team to grow while maintaining strong collaborative relationships with other internal stakeholders. • Stay abreast of industry, competitor, and cultural trends, pulling these references into creative ideas; influence industry trends and contribute to shaping agency strategies.

• Game ideation and associated presentation and documentation work; • Game design and associated presentation and documentation work; • Presenting the above and representing META4 to META4’s clients and partners; • Level design and game scripting; • Mentoring game designers, scripters and level designers; • Participation in the hiring process for designers / scripters / level designers; • Participation in the career development of game designers, scripters and level designers; • Participation in evaluating tasks and setting priorities and schedules.

Title: Sr Art Director - D&D Location: Renton United States Job Description: At Wizards of the Coast, we connect people around the world through play and imagination. From our genre-defining games like Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons to our growing multiverse, we continue to innovate and build new ways to foster friendship and connection. That's where you come in! Our adventuring party at Dungeons & Dragons, the world's greatest role-playing game, is looking for a ground- breaking Senior Art Director to join our award-winning team. A creative individual who will guide, elevate, and champion our studio's vision of D&D through dynamic art worldbuilding, commissioning, and strategic, hands-on conceptual development. Are you a curious, highly engaged, and experienced visual creative who is immersed in fantasy art? Are you interested in working within an established brand/IP while constantly looking to grow the brand's audience and visual expression? If so, please apply today! This role is a hybrid role requiring three days a week in our Renton, WA office. What You'll Do: - Lead in-house and external illustrators in crafting concept art assets. - Commission key artwork, sourcing freelance illustrators for each piece, offering ongoing direction on individual pieces, and encouraging strong connections with those collaborators. - Work alongside Creative Team partners to develop, define and communicate the visual creative foundation of future D&D worlds. Act as the art subject matter expert, leading the visual development of characters, environments and details needed to successfully support future card set releases. - Present and pitch creative concepts in brainstorms, meetings, and stand-up critiques, serving as a flexible authority on visual direction for both internal and external partners. - Participate in brainstorms on future D&D creative expressions and workflow/process improvements in partnership with department leaders. - Present updates to leadership, showcasing work and contextualizing it within our larger visual strategy. What You'll Bring : - 4+ yrs experience in commercial art illustration and/or commissioning Art Director roles - A portfolio demonstrating strong creative vision - You keep current with fantasy illustration market/talent and have an interest in discovering varied, up-and-coming artists - Effective communication and organizational abilities, keen attention to detail, and ease with both offering and accepting feedback - Ability to demonstrate ownership over commissioned work and concept art, and to synthesize game mechanics, brand knowledge, and creative goals into clear and concise direction - A proactive "yes, and" approach to concepting, feedback, and mentorship. You are a strong visual storyteller and collaborator at heart, using loose sketching, paint-overs, and other artist-focused methodologies to communicate direction. - The ability to prioritize and multi-task in a multidimensional, fast-paced environment that revolves around multiple product development calendars. - Adept in Adobe Photoshop, proficient in Illustrator, InDesign and MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook) We are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer Wizards of the Coast is committed to equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment. We are committed to making all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process and need to request an accommodation, please contact your recruiter or coordinator. The base salary range for this position is $114,400.00 to $181,600.00. The hiring range will vary based on factors such as experience, skills, location and market conditions. Additionally, employees may be eligible for annual and long-term incentives as part of their overall compensation package. Our Comprehensive Benefits Package Includes: - Health & Wellness: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance - Time Off to Recharge: Paid Vacation & Holidays - Financial Well-being: Generous 401(k) Match - Life & Family Support: Paid Parental Leave - Giving Back: Volunteer & Employee Giving Programs - Level Up Your Skills: Tuition Reimbursement - Exclusive Perks: Product Discounts & More! #Wizards