Creative Director

AcadArena is the home of campus gaming across the Philippines and Southeast Asia. We're building the place where students play, connect and earn.

Started in 2019 as a volunteer events gig, we've grown into a venture-backed 30-plus-person team creating communities, technologies and experiences that allow hundreds of thousands of students to learn about and explore the world of gaming and the metaverse.

As we continue to scale, we're looking forward to grow our awesome and diverse team of dreamers and creators to keep building what we wish we had as students.

❓ What the Role Is About

Part of building in campus gaming is about telling stories and shaping experiences through design, broadcast, and content. As our Creative Director, you'll be leading our Studios team as they do just that.

This is an senior-level role meant for seasoned creatives in the tech or gaming industry who want to contribute to the growing campus gaming movement. You will lead the end-to-end creative process across campaigns, shape our brand standards, mentor junior team members and play a supportive role across all departments.

⚙️ Responsibilities

• Leading the Studios team to produce new ideas and refining existing products for company branding, promotional campaigns, and channels.
• Supervise the Studios team's daily workflow, assign project workload, and monitor deadlines.
• Shape brand standards and create procedures to ensure all products are aligned.
• Collaborating with the Marketing team to plan and execute world-class creative and content identities for projects alongside said projects' respective working committees.
• Serve as the point of contact for other departments to request creative support from.
• Actively develop junior creative talent to help them reach the next level of their careers.

🧐 Qualifications

• Senior Creative. Seasoned individual with 4+ years experience in digital media/design -- ideally in technology or gaming.
• Tools of the Trade. Familiar with industry-standard tools such as Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere), Vegas and/or DaVinci Resolve.
• Portfolio Power. Has a strong portfolio/reel to show for their experience.
• Sensei. Experience in developing junior creative talent in a fast-paced setting.
• Effective Team Leader. Has a proven track record in delivering projects from scratch while leading a team to accomplish both short-term to long-term goals.
• Trust in the Process. Mastery of end-to-end creative processes.
• Values-driven & Youth Focused. You strongly believe in youth empowerment and have a good grasp of their needs and struggles.
• Gaming & Tech-savvy. Strong interest in video games and esports. Fully immersed in a digital lifestyle.
• Effective Communicator. Excellent writing, communication and presentation skills in both English and ideally another SEA language.

🎉 Nice To Haves

• Passionate about student empowerment, gaming and esports.
• Good knowledge of any of the following niches:
• Regional gaming industries in SEA
• Creator economy
• Web3 and metaverse
• Proficiency in any of the ff. languages:
  • Bisaya
  • Hiligaynon
  • Mandarin
  • Vietnamese
  • Bahasa Indonesia

AcadArena is a Southeast Asian campus gaming start-up building the place where students play, connect and earn through gaming and the metaverse. We're backed by an all-star cast of investors including Iterative, 1KX, Hashed, Kevin Lin (Twitch), Kun Gao (Crunchyroll) and Holly Liu (Kabam).