# Creative Director, Marketing & Brand

**Company:** [Chess.com](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/chess-com)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Brand Design
**Experience:** 8+ years
**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
**Posted:** 2026-07-08

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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