• Partner with senior marketing leadership to support comprehensive brand realignment, ensuring consistency and clarity across all communications and platforms. • Establish and reinforce clear brand guidelines and processes that emphasize usability and best practices across print, OOH, web, digital, social media, and other channels. • Act as a brand steward, maintaining alignment with company objectives and integrating brand strategy across business functions. • Audit and assess current brand assets, recommending and implementing improvements for integration and innovation. • Work hand in hand with the Senior Creative Director to lead the team in executing marketing campaigns, providing hands-on art direction, copy guidance, and conceptual leadership. • Champion a culture of ongoing learning by designing and implementing training programs, workshops, and regular feedback sessions to elevate creative skills. • Develop and facilitate a structured feedback culture focused on constant refinement, individual growth, and team excellence. • Identify team strengths and development opportunities, create tailored growth plans, and encourage knowledge sharing and professional development. • Build and maintain collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders. • Mentor and manage the creative team, fostering creativity, collaboration, and high performance.

• Lead design direction across two concurrent website redesigns, ensuring a cohesive system-driven approach across both experiences • Define and evolve a shared design system, including components, patterns, and templates that scale across multiple sites • Guide and mentor a team of designers, providing clear feedback and direction to elevate the work • Partner closely with product, engineering, and production to ensure feasibility and quality in execution • Stay close to the work—reviewing flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs to maintain a high bar for craft and usability • Establish and reinforce best practices for responsive design, accessibility, and component-based thinking • Drive alignment with stakeholders, clearly articulating design rationale and decisions • Identify risks, gaps, or inconsistencies across both builds and proactively solve for them • Balance speed and quality in a fast-moving, iterative environment

• Elevate and scale creative output across internal communications and learning experiences • Set a clear creative vision and visual direction • Partner closely with stakeholders and creative teammates • Independently lead end-to-end creative projects • Own the process from ideation and concept development through design, production, iteration, and final delivery

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! How would you like to work with the best fantasy illustrators to make every Magic card worthy of an award? Magic: the Gathering, the world’s first and best-in-class Trading Card Game, is hiring a new Contract - Commissioning Art Director! What You'll Do: - Commission a high volume of artwork by: identifying freelance illustrators for each piece, providing continuous art direction on individual pieces, maintaining solid relationships with those partners, and providing regular updates to the card concent producer on art status. - Review print-ready files to ensure final card quality. - Participate in brainstorms on future Magic creative expressions and workflow/process improvements in partnership with department leaders. What You’ll Bring: - 2+ yrs commercial art experience. - A portfolio demonstrating strong creative vision with a cinematic lens. - Understanding of Magic as both a game and a brand. - Strong communication skills and comfort giving and receiving feedback. - High attention to detail and organization skills - Deep knowledge of current fantasy illustration market/talent and modern print/press techniques and processes. Have an interest in discovering diverse, emerging artists - Adept in Adobe Photoshop, proficient MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook). Additional Details: Please note that this is a temporary assignment providing services to Wizards through an external staffing agency. If you are selected for this assignment, you will be employed by Workwell as a W2 employee and will not be an employee of Wizards. - Employment Type: Contingent Worker - Location: WA or Fully remote within the U.S. - Duration: Up to 12 months Compensation Range, Currency USD: - Starting Pay Range: $53.80/hour - Pay Range End: $80.67/hour In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the hourly pay range for this role. Workwell offers US based Wizards temporary workers a comprehensive benefits package, including: - Medical - Dental - Vision - Health savings accounts - Employee assistance program - 401(k) retirement plan - Employee Stock Ownership Plan - Paid Sick Leave (variable based on location) - Paid Time Off and Holiday Pay We are an Equal Opportunity 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. #Wizards