Executive Creative Director
About The Position
The Executive Creative Director shapes and executes Exploding Kittens’ distinct brand identity across games and new product lines. Working closely with cross-functional teams, this role develops new products and ensures that work from Art & Design and Game Development is irreverent, bold, and unmistakably on-brand. This is a hands-on leadership position for a creative leader with a strong CPG background who can mentor a team and guide the creation of innovative, commercially viable work spanning game design, packaging, and product components. The role calls for a startup mentality and comfort building processes and systems as needed. The Executive Creative Director understands the mass market, respects the brand Exploding Kittens has built over the past decade, and helps carry it into the next. The role protects the integrity of the brand’s tone of voice and visual standards while evolving its creative identity with fresh ideas, decisiveness, and proactivity. The successful candidate is humble, hungry, people-smart, committed to team success, and continually develops their craft and leadership.
Requirements
- A strong portfolio and proven creative leadership overseeing product development for high-growth CPG brands built with the consumer in mind.
- Experience refreshing and evolving brands through growth, maturity, and category expansion while protecting their core identity.
- Demonstrable ability to translate strategic direction into bold, original creative execution.
- Deep understanding of consumer behavior and cultural trends, with the ability to adapt creative direction to different audience tastes and interests.
- Strong leadership and communication skills, with comfort working in fast-paced, collaborative, iterative environments.
- 10+ years overseeing creative teams in a leadership and people-management role.
- Based in Los Angeles, California.
Responsibilities
- Set the creative vision for each new product and inspire and guide product designers, illustrators, and game designers, fostering a high-performing, experimental, and collaborative team culture.
- Drive innovation and disruption in the games category by staying ahead of trends in design, humor, and entertainment.
- Own and evolve the company’s voice and brand identity across all creative work.
- Establish creative team workflows and address creative resource gaps to improve and scale a lean, scrappy process.
- Advocate for Creative Strategy and collaborate with Marketing, Product Management, Production, and Sales to ensure brand integrity and commercial viability at every stage.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
No Education Listed
