WHAT YOU'LL DO:

* Be an integral part of the marketing team leading the design direction for all marketing materials including landing pages, emails, newsletters, banner ads, site takeovers and print collateral.
* Build a creative services team within marketing to deliver high quality designs across many campaigns and mediums in a fast paced work environment
* Must be able and willing to do superlative hands-on work, setting the bar for the rest of the team
* Communicate with the design team, product art teams, and marketing team to plan and create mock ups and visual prototypes that are both attractive and support technical and functional requirements.
* Supervise, mentor, and inspire teams of designers, both in-house and occasionally external to the company.
* Lead formal and informal review sessions and provide effective team feedback
* Collaborate with the social game industry’s top game concept artists and illustrators, creating marketing art within various genres across a wide variety of mediums.
* Ideal candidates will have experience in both web and print design, especially in entertainment (games, movies, etc.).

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

* 7+ years of professional design experience in marketing materials for web and print. Skills and job experience are more important than education.
* Solid portfolio demonstrating your graphic design skills with a focus on marketing materials for web and print (please specify work done individually or with a team).
* A passion for design and keeping current with recent design and usability trends.
* Advanced knowledge of Photoshop CS4/CS5 with an emphasis on page-layout design.
* Strong understanding of color theory and its overall impact on design.
* Ability to work in a wide variety of visual styles based on our games: ie. medieval, fantasy, roman, military, sci-fi, etc.
* Hands on familiarity with HTML and CSS.
* Good cross-functional communications skills; verbal, written, and visual.
* Ability to produce high quality work in a fast paced environment with a dedication to iterate in pursuit of the best design solutions.
* Understanding of email coding constraints and how to create designs that work based on limitations.
* Self-motivated worker with ability to prioritize and manage work load to meet critical project deadlines.
* Ability to take direction and constructive feedback well and to use it to polish designs with. Must play well with others: No prima donnas!
* A terrific sense of humor.
* Must be available to work on site at our offices in Redwood City, CA.

NICE TO HAVES:

* A background in the consumer entertainment sector is a big plus.
* An interest in gaming is desirable but not absolutely necessary.
* Basic Flash skills (advanced skills a plus).
* InDesign and Illustrator a plus.
* Other drawing, illustration, and 3D skills nice to see but not required.
* Experience with direct response marketing.

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