Marketing Art Director

1047 Games began with the simple principle that people should have fun while making great games. Bucking convention and driven by a passion to create the ultimate gaming experience, Ian Proulx and Nicholas Bagamian founded 1047 Games in 2017 in their Stanford dorm room. Their love for arena shooters of the past drove them to create Splitgate, a unique sci-fi first-person shooter that adds portal guns to upend the genre. 

What started as two computer science majors putting portals into a first-person shooter for a project demo has evolved into a VC-backed company which has raised more than $120MM in funding. 

At 1047 Games, you’ll find a permanently remote, dedicated team of top-tier talent from some of the world’s biggest gaming and tech companies who share our founders’ vision. Grit, ingenuity, a desire to have fun, and a start up mentality define our crew. We are currently working on a brand new shooter in the Splitgate universe.

You’re the right person if you are:

• A natural problem solver who dives deep into the creative process
• A high-energy worker with a sense of urgency, and is highly responsive in a fast-paced environment.
• Able to focus and deliver results.
• Collaborative in nature and able to work with anyone, regardless of department or seniority.
• Flexible, dependable, and opinionated.
• Empathetic towards the customer and the individuals on a creative team.
• Data driven and eager to mix art and science in an attempt to break through and get a product noticed

Responsibilities

• Inspire the marketing and game art teams to push the boundaries of our brand.
• Consistently uplevel the design and quality of our brand work across all mediums by bringing impactful ideas and seeing them from concept through execution.
• Define goals and objectives for the creative marketing department and determine a strategy to achieve them.
• Overcome obstacles and develop innovative solutions that give us an advantage in a crowded market.
• Ensure that deliverables adhere to strategic brief, our brand foundations and value propositions.
• Research and apply new and emerging technology principles to marketing creative.
• Develop and review creative briefs that provide strategic insights and creative inspiration to internal partners and external agencies.
• Demonstrate a deep understanding and appreciation for system thinking and help to build documentation for others to develop on-brand creative
• Get hands-on and create files from scratch and manipulate existing files using Adobe Creative Suite including but not limited to: mock-ups, storyboards, consumer-facing graphics, motion graphics, and video.
• Go in-engine to develop UE5 branded content in partnership with our UX team.
• Partnership with outside vendors to ensure consistent, creative quality.
• Oversee and provide art direction for photography shoots, video shoots, and illustration work, as needed.
• Mentor and grow junior members of the team.

Requirements

• 8+ years design and creative experience.
• At least 2 years working in the video game industry.
• Strong design expertise and deep understanding of design systems, and brand design.
• Proficient in Digital, Social, AV, and OOH advertising formats.
• Experience managing a high volume of creative and campaign types in parallel.
• A strong and provable track record of developing breakthrough ideas and design experiences.
• Proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects.
• Portfolio required.

Pluses

• Experience working in Unreal Engine 5
• Maya, Lightroom, HTML/CSS.
• Experience with UI/UX.
• Played Splitgate or other PC/console shooters (Halo, Fortnite, etc.).
• Streaming or video content creation experience.