Executive Creative Director

Exploding Kittens • Los Angeles, CA

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About The Position

The Executive Creative Director shapes and executes Exploding Kittens’ brand identity across games and new product lines. This hands-on creative leader partners with cross-functional teams to develop innovative, commercially viable products—including game designs, packaging, and product components—that are irreverent, bold, and unmistakably on-brand. The role leads and mentors product designers, illustrators, and game designers while fostering an experimental, collaborative, high-performing team culture.

The Executive Creative Director sets the creative vision for new products, owns and evolves the company’s voice and brand identity, and safeguards its tone of voice and visual standards while bringing fresh ideas to the brand. The role also establishes creative workflows, addresses resource gaps, and advocates for creative strategy in collaboration with Marketing, Product Management, Production, and Sales. The ideal candidate has a strong CPG background, understands mass-market consumers, and is comfortable building processes in a fast-paced, startup-minded environment.

Requirements

• 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 core identity.
• Demonstrable ability to translate strategic direction into bold and original creative execution.
• Deep understanding of consumer behavior and cultural trends, with the ability to adapt creative direction to different audiences.
• Inspiring leadership and exceptional communication skills; comfortable in fast-paced, collaborative, iterative environments.
• At least 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 guide product designers, illustrators, and game designers.
• Foster a high-performing, experimental, and collaborative creative 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 creative work.
• Establish creative team workflows and address resource gaps to improve and scale lean processes.
• Advocate for Creative Strategy and collaborate with Marketing, Product Management, Production, and Sales.
• Ensure brand integrity and commercial viability throughout product development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed