Role Description As the Creative Director at Schoox, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our visual brand identity and creative asset development. This is a hands-on creative leadership role: you will set creative strategy, drive execution, and raise the quality bar across every touchpoint working in close partnership with a curated mix of creative agencies and production partners rather than managing a large internal team. You bring both the strategic vision and the leadership to manage a high-volume creative environment without diluting the brand’s visual quality. - Creative Strategy: Develop and implement creative strategies that align with our brand objectives, messaging, and business goals. - Agency & Partner Management: Select, brief, and manage a roster of creative agencies and freelance partners. Set clear creative expectations, drive accountability to brand standards, and ensure agency output is on-strategy, on-brand, and on-time. You are the creative authority; agencies execute under your direction. - Brand Development: Continually evolve and refine the brand identity, ensuring consistency across all creative assets, including visual design, tone of voice, and storytelling. - Hands-On Creative Execution: Personally develop concepts and produce compelling creative across digital, social, video, and event channels, and direct agency and freelance resources to extend that work at scale. You are comfortable both doing and directing. - Campaign Development: Conceptualize and develop integrated marketing campaign assets that resonate with our target audience and drive brand awareness and engagement. - Performance-Driven Creative Optimization: Partner closely with marketing leadership to develop paid and organic ad creative, then use performance analytics to iterate and improve. Translate data signals (CTR, conversion, engagement) into creative decisions that strengthen campaign ROI over time. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including marketing, product development, and sales, to ensure creative initiatives align with overall business strategies. - Production Budget Management: Own the creative production budget. Scope projects accurately, make smart build-vs.-buy decisions, creative tools & subscription selection, and hold agencies and vendors to agreed costs. Deliver ambitious creative without runaway spend, knowing when to invest and when to find a smarter path. - Quality Control: Maintain high standards for creative output, ensuring that all content is in line with brand guidelines and meets quality benchmarks. Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g., Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Marketing, or Advertising). Master's degree is a plus. - 8+ years of creative experience, with a track record of operating as both a hands-on practitioner and a strategic creative lead ideally within B2B SaaS, enterprise technology, or a fast-growth software company. - Strong portfolio showcasing a range of creative work across various mediums. - Proficiency in creative software (e.g., Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.). - Excellent communication and presentation skills. - A strategic thinker with a deep understanding of marketing and brand development. - Proven experience managing external creative agencies and freelancers — evaluating partners, writing creative briefs, providing clear direction, and holding work to brand and quality standards. - Strong project management skills and the ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment. - Knowledge of emerging trends and technologies, including the use of AI tools to support creative asset production. Benefits - Salary range: $125,000-$145,000. - The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications and experience. - The offered compensation may also include restricted stock options. - A description of our employee benefits may be found HERE.

• Concept and produce video creative across paid social, CTV, and emerging channels • Bring a sharp visual eye to every asset • Stay on top of platform trends, formats, and cultural shifts • Develop hooks, angles, and visual frameworks rooted in performance • Edit video directly • Leverage AI tools to accelerate workflows • Collaborate closely with media, growth, and senior creative teammates

• Deliver High-Impact Creative: Concept and design best-in-class digital creative across social, and video, with a strong focus on visual storytelling and performance. • Mentor & Lead: Act as a direct supervisor and mentor to junior and mid-level Art Directors and Designers. Provide clear, constructive feedback to creatives across disciplines (for example, to copy) to elevate the team's output and foster professional growth. • Support Video + Content Production: Contribute to pre-production planning, support on-set shoots, and collaborate with editors and designers in post to ensure work comes to life as intended. • Partner Across Disciplines: Work closely with copywriters, strategists, producers, project managers, and client teams to ensure creative aligns with brief goals, brand voice, and business objectives. • Be a Problem Solver: Navigate ambiguity with CD support, adapt to shifting priorities, and bring proactive solutions to creative and production challenges. These solutions should come in the form of daily brainstorming and inspiration sharing with the team. • Cultivate Culture: Foster an inclusive, high-energy environment. Lead daily brainstorms and inspiration-sharing sessions to keep the team’s creative pulse sharp.Manage Creative Execution: Own the work from end to end. Concepting and producing polished on-brand, performance-minded assets that meet timelines and briefs. As an Associate Director, Art Direction, you will lead by doing, driving execution while strategically delegating portions of our projects to our junior team members to support efficiency, mentorship and delivery while remaining accountable for the final output.

Title: Art Lead Location: San Francisco Department: Product Design Employment Type Full time Location Type Hybrid Department Product DesignCompensation San Francisco$192K – $288K Job Description: About Us Weekend is the leading developer of voice AI games for smart TVs. Our games attract millions of users every month, with family favorites like Jeopardy!, Song Quiz, CoComelon: Sing and Play with JJ, and Wheel of Fortune. We believe voice interfaces will become the main way people access entertainment in their living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and cars. We're building a bundled subscription product similar to Netflix or Spotify for the emerging category of "AI-powered games." Weekend was founded by Max Child and James Wilsterman in 2024. The founders went through Y Combinator in 2018 and landed a spot on the 2022 YC Top Companies List. We're a quickly-growing team headquartered in Union Square, San Francisco. Role Summary Weekend is hiring our first in-house Lead Artist to own the visual craft across our entire games slate: Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, Song Quiz, Wit's End, CoComelon, and titles in development. This is a hands-on role. You'll ship game UI, HUD, menus, lobby, and key art moments yourself, run the specialist contractor roster, and set the standard for what the Weekend games art studio becomes. Lead Artist today, with a clear path to Art Director for the right person. This job opportunity offers a hybrid work arrangement, and we are specifically seeking candidates who are comfortable with on-site attendance in our Bay Area office 2-3 times per week and are either currently residing in or near the Bay Area or willing to relocate for on-site work. What You'll Do at Weekend - Ship the screens. Game UI, HUD, menus, lobby, and key art moments on titles in flight and in development. The work needs to land in a living room, not a desktop. - Hold the craft bar across every Weekend title. The same household plays across our games. The interaction and finish should feel like one studio made them, even as each title keeps its own visual identity. - Run the specialist roster. Decide who you need, when, and for which titles. Brief and direct contractors on character, environment, motion, and video. Own scope, timeline, and quality on those engagements. Cut the spend that isn't earning its keep. - Ship production-ready, not previs-perfect. Get art into the actual title alongside engineering, then iterate. Don't over-stay in mockups. - Set what the games art studio becomes. Hire the next artists alongside you, shape the standards the team works to, and grow the bench as the slate grows. - We're Excited About You Because You Have - 6+ years shipping game UI, HUD, and key art across TV, console, web, or mobile. Your portfolio shows finished screens you took from rough to live. Multiple shipped titles is a plus. - Exceptional game UI and HUD craft for stylized, family-facing titles. Typography chosen rather than defaulted. Density that fits the surface. Motion that means something on a tap. Range across the rest: composition, color, hierarchy, layout, illustration as an adjacent discipline. You produce key art and screens yourself, not just briefs. - Daily AI in your hands. Midjourney, Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, or whatever you reach for. You explore ten directions in an hour and ship faster, and you have a sharp opinion on where AI belongs and where it doesn't. - Managed and directed contractors on shipped game work. You've held the bar with specialists you don't see every day, owned scope and budget, and stepped in to ship the fix when the work wasn't landing. - Bias to ship. You'd rather get art into the actual title this week and iterate than spend a month polishing in a deck. - Love of games. You play them, you have opinions about why some feel right and others don't, and you bring that intuition to the work. - Bonus Points - AI side projects, art-related or not. Any AI work you've built on the side. - Mobile game UI experience, including mobile-controller surfaces. - Game-show, party, trivia, or family co-viewing format experience. - Built an art team from one seat up. - Our Stack - Figma for UI design - Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects) - Image-gen tools (Midjourney and similar) - Claude, Cursor, v0 for prototyping and prompt work - Unity for engine-based titles - AI-driven asset pipelines on our newer game scaffolding - What's in it for You - Your medical, dental, and vision insurance is 100% covered by Weekend, for yourself and all dependents, and we match 401k! - We offer a flexible, hybrid work-from-home and in-office work model. - We offer unlimited paid time off (enforced 2-week minimum), 14 paid holidays, 40 hours of bereavement leave, and unlimited sick days. - Our generous parental leave policy includes 24 weeks at 100% pay for birthing parents and 12 weeks at 100% pay for non-birthing parents. - We offer visa support for eligible candidates, making relocating for the job smoother and more streamlined. - A full breakdown of our benefits is here! For Pay Transparency: The final offer amount may depend on experience, education, skills, and location. Base pay is one part of the total package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Weekend is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Weekend will ensure that persons are provided reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process. If any reasonable accommodation is needed, please reach out to your hiring contact.