Overview
As our Lead Marketing Artist, you will guide the marketing art team, ensure top-notch visual communication and design quality. You should have a keen eye for clean and playful design, possess superior visual communication skills, be highly adaptable, and have the ability to translate high-level requirements into refined final assets across various formats.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead a dynamic marketing art team to create diverse and high-quality marketing assets.
- Collaborate closely with user acquisition, publishing, and project teams to deliver impactful marketing materials.
- Drive the creation and iteration of game logos, app icons, and other key marketing assets, ensuring top-tier quality.
- Source and adapt game content, maintaining brand consistency across multiple projects while working with external partners and contractors.
- Oversee outsourced artwork, build a network of specialist contractors, and manage asset versioning and localization to meet global standards.
What You Bring To The Role
- Extensive experience in Adobe Creative Suite, especially Photoshop, with strong digital illustration skills.
- Deep understanding of graphic design fundamentals, including layout, spacing, typography, and color theory.
- Proven leadership in planning, prioritization, and time management, with a track record of meeting strict deadlines.
- Demonstrated ability to create engaging digital marketing assets across diverse art styles, with high attention to detail and visual communication.
Bonus Points
- Storyboarding and examples of visual storytelling.
- Games industry experience.
What we offer here at PlaySide
- Playdays - an additional 5 paid days off per year to do something you love.
- Incredible studios based in gorgeous Port Melbourne, right next to the city and many public transport options.
- Industry leading Parental Leave benefits
- Employee Assistance Program to support mental wellbeing
- Mentoring. We're agile and fast growing, giving plenty of chances for you to grow in your role.
- Half price state of the art Gym access! (right next door) - you can wear your free PlaySide Swag!
- Social events! Including Games night, karaoke nights, Movie Nights (We hire out the cinema!), group activities and food trucks! Just as some examples!
- Relocation allowance, if you move to one of our head offices
- The chance to work on some of the most exciting projects, with the most incredible companies in the world - just take a look at our website