Creative Director, Marketing & Brand
Leads the visual evolution of Chess.com across brand campaigns, product launches, advertising, partnerships, and social channels. The role requires exceptional design craft, art direction, strategic thinking, and 8+ years of brand, marketing, or creative leadership experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the Chess.com brand identity across campaign visuals, social presence, product launches, and other touchpoints.
- Design and art direct major brand campaigns from concept through final execution.
- Lead visual direction for product launches, performance marketing, social campaigns, sponsorships, and special events.
- Personally design high-impact creative work while mentoring and elevating the work of others.
- Partner with Marketing, Product, Partnerships, Content, Community, Motion, Copy, Illustration, and Engineering to ensure cohesive storytelling.
- Translate strategy, consumer insights, and marketing goals into compelling creative concepts and visual design.
- Advance brand guidelines and design systems that support creative quality at scale.
- Guide creative resourcing and asset pipelines.
- Take bold creative risks while keeping the brand grounded in tradition, authenticity, and fun.
- Build creative that strengthens long-term brand equity and measurable business growth.
Requirements
- Exceptional visual design skills across typography, layout, composition, branding, and digital design.
- 8+ years of experience in brand, marketing, or creative leadership, ideally in gaming, digital media, entertainment, or consumer technology.
- Portfolio demonstrating outstanding campaign work, design craft, creative thinking, and measurable business results.
- Proven ability to define and execute a compelling creative vision.
- Deep understanding of advertising, brand design, performance marketing, and multichannel campaign development.
- Experience bridging product and marketing.
- Experience building and scaling creative teams in high-growth environments.
- Experience leading brand storytelling and multichannel campaigns.
- Strong art direction skills across illustration, motion, photography, and emerging creative technologies.
- Collaborative, confident communication and comfort working remotely.
- Versatility, flexibility, and willingness to contribute where needed.
- Portfolio demonstrating the needs of the role.
Tools
- Figma
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Modern creative tools
Nice-to-haves
- Deep knowledge of gaming, the creator economy, and global fandoms.
- Familiarity with chess culture and an established interest in chess.
Compensation and Benefits
- Full-time opportunity.
- 100% remote; work from anywhere.
- Preferred location is the Americas or EMEA due to team and business needs.
Skills
Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Typography, Brand Design, Digital Design, Art Direction, Performance Marketing, Brand Identity, Visual Design, Illustration, Motion Design, Photography, Design Systems, Campaign Development, Creative Leadership
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