• 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.

Role Description CNC Agency is seeking a Creative Director, Concept to help lead one of our largest accounts alongside an established Creative Director with a strong design and execution background. This role is responsible for developing culturally relevant, strategically grounded experiential concepts that connect brand objectives, audience behavior, and real-world experiences. The ideal candidate brings a strong point of view on culture, consumer behavior, storytelling, and emerging trends, translating those insights into compelling concepts, narratives, and experience frameworks that can scale across multiple programs and audiences. Taste is a must. Working alongside a partner Creative Director, this individual will help define the "what" and "why" behind the work while partnering closely to ensure ideas are translated into exceptional execution. This role sits at the intersection of strategy and creativity. Roles & Responsibilities - Partner with your Creative Director counterpart to lead a shared team across multiple concurrent programs, ensuring creative continuity, strategic alignment, and operational consistency across a large-scale account. - Lead the development of experiential concepts, creative territories, strategic narratives, and experience frameworks across a portfolio of brand initiatives. - Translate business objectives, audience insights, cultural shifts, and emerging behaviors into compelling creative opportunities. - Develop experience platforms that connect brand purpose, consumer behavior, and real-world activation. - Shape creative briefs, workshop outputs, and early-stage ideation into actionable concepts and programs. - Build compelling presentations and creative narratives that inspire both clients and internal teams. - Facilitate ideation sessions, creative workshops, and collaborative working sessions. - Ensure concepts remain strategically sound while pushing creative ambition. - Maintain a deep understanding of culture, consumer behavior, emerging communities, and shifts in how people engage with brands. - Translate cultural insights into meaningful experiences rather than trend-driven activations. - Partner with Strategy, Account, and Creative teams to identify opportunities that strengthen brand relevance and differentiation. - Evaluate work through both a strategic and creative lens, ensuring ideas are innovative, relevant, and executable. - Champion audience-centered thinking throughout the creative process. - Serve as a senior creative voice in client meetings, workshops, and presentations. - Present concepts, narratives, and creative rationale with confidence and clarity. - Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders through thoughtful creative partnership. - Facilitate conversations that help clients move from ambiguity to alignment and decision-making. - Defend creative recommendations while remaining collaborative and solutions-oriented. - Partner closely with your Creative Director to ensure conceptual thinking translates into exceptional execution. - Collaborate with designers, art directors, strategists, producers, writers, fabricators, and external partners throughout the creative process. - Provide thoughtful feedback that elevates both ideas and execution. - Remain actively involved through development and production phases to ensure original creative intent is preserved. - Help identify creative risks, gaps, and opportunities throughout project lifecycles. - Support activations, installations, and launches as needed to ensure experiences are delivered as intended. Qualifications - 8+ years of experience in experiential marketing, brand experience, creative strategy, integrated creative, innovation, or related disciplines. - 3+ years of experience in a Creative Director or equivalent leadership role. - Demonstrated experience developing experiential concepts, creative platforms, and brand narratives for major consumer brands. - Strong experience translating strategy, insights, and cultural understanding into creative ideas. - Proven ability to lead client-facing creative discussions, workshops, and presentations. - Experience collaborating across design, strategy, production, and account disciplines. - Exceptional storytelling, communication, and presentation skills. - Experience working with global consumer, technology, mobility, entertainment, lifestyle, or hospitality brands. - Background spanning multiple disciplines including experiential marketing, creative strategy, innovation, integrated creative, design, or brand consulting. - Experience leading workshops, vision sessions, and collaborative ideation exercises. - Understanding of spatial storytelling, environmental design, live experiences, and experiential production. Requirements - The salary range for this role is $165,000–$215,000 annually. Where a candidate falls within this band will depend on a combination of factors, including relevant experience, demonstrated performance, specific skills, geographical location, and internal equity. - We regularly benchmark roles to market data and ensure pay is aligned with the role's scope and impact. Benefits - At CNC Agency, great ideas come from diverse perspectives. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can bring their full selves to work. - All qualified applicants will be considered regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other protected status.