Marketing Art Lead

Company: Skydance Media
Location: Santa Monica
Posted on: April 3, 2021

Job Description:

Skydance Interactive - developers of the hit game The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners -is looking for a Marketing Art Lead. The Marketing Art Lead is able to leverage the art style of our games to create a wide range of assets on multiple mediums, including but not limited to Key art, logos, web graphics, social media, ad creatives, photography, posters and videos. This artist must be versatile in working with and manipulating already-created art assets into polished, usable formats across the same wide range of mediums. Additionally, they must be flexible and enjoy working on a variety of different games and projects, working with external and internal partners as needed to visually impress our players.-- Skydance Interactive (formerly, The Workshop and now part of Skydance Media) has a long track record of work on top tier titles such as The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, The Evil Within, XCOM 2, and Gears of War 4. We provide a dynamic, demanding, and highly collaborative team environment where industry veterans and fresh upcoming talent work side by side to create world-class games across a variety of platforms.-- Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Create assets for our games' storefronts (PSN/Xbox/Steam, etc), websites, social media
• Create 2d assets to support our marketing and PR initiatives - logos, key art, screenshots, ad creatives, posters, presentation sheets, t-shirt designs, mock ups, etc.
• Work closely with the game team to reflect the artistic and gameplay vision for the game in all of our marketing assets
• Work closely with our video lead on assets for trailers, community videos and streaming.
• Navigate game clients (Unreal, etc) and editors to compose, frame, and capture high-quality screenshots
• Collaborate effectively with your colleagues to deliver visually impressive results Requirements:
  • 2-5 years' professional experience in a comparable graphic, visual design or artist role
  • 2+ years working on marketing assets
  • Solid knowledge of branding, design and the campaign creative development process
  • High levels of creativity, and demonstrated ability to generate innovative designs
  • Exceptional eye for composition, contrast, and color
  • Advanced knowledge of Adobe Master Suite - Photoshop, Illustrator
  • Some knowledge of video editing with After Effects and Adobe Premiere, or equivalent--
  • Able to work well in a collaborative, iterative design team of artists and marketers
  • Organized and able to work to deadlines
  • Knowledge and passion for video games
  • Persistent self-education around innovations in marketing creative Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film, television, interactive, and animation divisions.
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    Skydance is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to building and fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce. We welcome and consider applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy status, military/veteran status, disability, or any other protected category. Diversity in the workplace is not just a commitment, it is who we are and a reflection of what makes our world special. Stay up to date on all the latest news from Skydance.

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