Sr Graphic Designer

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. And we’re just getting started.

You’re the right person if you are:

• Driven to create unique design solutions for both Marketing/Branding and In-Game needs 
• Have experience inspiring and directing other designers on a team
• A creative thinker, able to multitask, and detail oriented
• A designer excited to take on problems that are new and different (we are a small team and our tasks may change and expand)
• An excellent written and spoken communicator
• Push to find fresh design solutions that may break convention and result in something surprising for the audience
• Able to fail, learn, try again, and fail some more

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Marketing and Game Art teams to develop strategically sound marketing design and visual identity solutions for the new game brand / sub-brands
• Continue to refine and expand the new game’s visual identity into a complete design system that is documented into a comprehensive style guide. This will then feed subsequent marketing initiatives from internal and external partners. 
• Present your design solutions to teammates / partners and provide rationalization - “why” is it right?
• Be able to listen to, acknowledge, and act on team feedback for your designs. 
• Provide actionable feedback to teammates on their creative output
• Proactively engage with marketing colleagues and other 1047 teammates to design solutions quickly, accurately, and on time
• Be able to balance hot weekly design tasks with longer lead time brand projects
• Ensure that designs comply with brand, platform, and licensor guidelines and industry-standard specs.

Requirements

• Minimum 6+ years experience with an in-house creative team or design agency focusing on branding systems and all marketing channel applications (some experience in the video game, entertainment, or major sports’ industry)
• Knowledge of the marketing process via direct experience

• Experience working in an agile, fast-paced, and highly cross-functional organization
• Demonstrate ability to manage time effectively and juggle multiple priorities, resulting in high quality outcomes 
• Success working with distributed teams in different time zones
• Skilled in the full Adobe base suite (focusing on design) and software such as Miro, Figma, Jira, Frame iO, etc. 

Pluses

• Have worked with external agencies and specialized creative teams, outside your core team. We will often use external creative partners; so experience in communicating with them would be beneficial. 
• Experience playing Splitgate or other PC/console shooters (Halo, Fortnite, Apex, COD, Destiny, etc.)