We are a strategy first brand design agency with decades of experience spanning startups to fortune 500 companies in entertainment, lifestyle, and tech. We're looking for a hybrid designer that combines the experiential insight of game design with the cultural awareness and storytelling capabilities of a brand creative. You believe that videogames are at the forefront of culture and the future of rich and compelling storytelling.

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION:

As a Senior Game and Brand Experience Designer, you are a visionary storyteller that sees games as a platform for brands to engage their fans. You will lead the strategic creative on a program or project, working with creative teams at all levels to bring concepts to life. You will collaborate with art directors, program managers, and directly with clients to set the approach to delivering ideas and solutions. As a creative lead, this role drives design innovation, delivers on quality, and prioritizes our clients and their audience’s needs.

You have impeccable attention to detail, a deep awareness of essential game behaviors and mechanics, bring a unique design POV to Skylight, and will direct and mentor the team to develop inspiring and innovative design strategies with world class quality.

You are a strong and diverse conceptual thinker, critical problem solver, and storyteller. You guide design, copywriting, and extended collaborators (illustrators, photographers, etc.) to bring holistic concepts to life beautifully.

You shepherd the creation and delivery of both internal and client presentations, developing content with a focus on storytelling and strategic rationale while confidently presenting ideas. You provide clear direction to the design and strategy teams, actively listening and inspiring collaboration. You lead on crafting both conceptual and rational copy, for any given project.

You naturally build lasting relationships with clients promoting organic growth. You are a dedicated and enthusiastic partner, ensuring that Skylight is the best part of a client’s day. You are committed to expertise in our client's categories, challenges and needs. You deeply appreciate and understand what motivates our client's fans, and function as an essential collaborator and extension of our client's teams. You have a passion for gaming, with an understanding of the industry, market and target audiences.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Define game-play mechanics, player experience, and coordinate with creative and development partners to ensure a quality experience within the appropriate scope.
Visualize what our clients need based on the context of their brand, who they are competing with for their fan’s attention, and what their fans want and need.
Collaborate closely with program managers and account leads to ensure efficient and effective creative development.
Elevate strategic thinking with cultural, consumer, and marketplace insights.
Partner with strategic leads at key moments during insight and strategy development.
Come into work each day and be creative. Show us how it’s done.
Elevate our team’s value in the eyes of our friends and clients.
Care deeply about design, innovation, and your contribution to what Skylight can become.

SKILLS:

Deep understanding and appreciation for the role of design thinking.
Active knowledge and expertise in how games work and the gaming space.
Expert brand design skills (marks, type, color, composition).
Experience with photo, illustration, publishing and presentation software and relevant tools.
Ability to guide and mentor teams of creatives.
Expert brand storyteller, regardless of medium.

WHAT YOU BRING TO SKYLIGHT:

7+ years design experience (agency or internal brand team).
2+ years of experience leading a creative team.
You are an expert at communications – effectively getting complex ideas across in an easy to understand manner, and hearing what others around you are saying.
Comfort with regularly interfacing directly with clients and presenting work.
Game design experience with a passion for the gaming and entertainment category and gaming innovation.
Portfolio of recognized work (ideally entertainment or videogame brands).
A strong sense of composition, color, and design, and adept at the quality bar of globally recognized entertainment (videogame, streaming, film), technology and lifestyle brands.
Ability to cultivate and solidify relationships with both client and internal teams.
Work ethic focused on dynamism and collaborative nature; ability to perform multiple tasks, prioritize and solve problems.
Proven problem-solving abilities.
Healthy sense of ambition.
Bachelor’s degree in Illustration, Painting, design, advertising, art direction, a related field, or equivalent experience.

PLEASE ANSWER THIS QUESTION:

Provide evidence of your process. Show us how the project evolved from ask to final deliverable, and why you landed where you did.

OPTIONAL EXTRA CREDIT:

Tell us a bit more about yourself! Pick one of the following to include with your application:

When did you know when you were going to be a designer? Be creative with your answer.
Provide a snapshot of a few key trends driving the gaming industry. Bring a point of view.
Create a visualization that shows your process and approach to collaboration.
Create a short (5 pages or less) deck that shows/tells us what your top five favorite movies — design it, and then say why.

WHAT WE OFFER:

Opportunity to work on a variety of influential and interesting brand work.
A highly collaborative work environment.
A competitive salary.
Flexible Vacation Policy. We are all hard working adults with a strong work ethic.
A culture of trust and respect. See above.
Health Insurance. We are nothing without our health.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY:

This position has supervisory responsibilities.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Due to the pandemic, we are currently operating in a WFH configuration. It is possible that in the future (2022) we will shift to a hybrid model.

POSITION TYPE AND EXPECTED HOURS OF WORK:

This is a full-time exempt position. Typical days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, between the hours of 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. or as scheduled by management.

TRAVEL:

Limited travel may be required as necessary for the role.

WORK AUTHORIZATION/SECURITY CLEARANCE:

US citizenship evidenced via current I-9 process.

OTHER DUTIES:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

AAP/EEO STATEMENT:

Skylight is an equal employment opportunity employer. Our policy is to make all employment-related decisions without regard to an employee's race, color, creed, religion, age, national origin, marital status, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, or any other basis prohibited by local, state or federal law. This policy applies to all personnel activities including employment, promotion, compensation and termination.

Skylight does not tolerate sexual harassment of any employee by another employee, supervisor, vendor, or customer for any reason.