Mission: Complete projects assigned; from initial stage to completion with insight and vision

Position Requirements

Education/Experience:

• Degree in Graphics/Design/Art (or equivalent training) preferred and/or min 5 years related work experience
• Game design and/or trading card design experience.
• Manufacturing experience in either China or other major manufacturing country.

Key Result Areas and Activities

• Develop and design trading card games including wave planning, exclusive packs, and line extensions.
• Work with marketing and sales leads to enhace product development.
• Work with factory and internal teams to manage production process.
• Work with global teams to ensure local market needs are met including the management of translations, and design specifications.
• Design packaging architecture for wave or line extensions.
• Evaluate market and brand trends and incorporate into line development.
• Complete assigned projects, achieving project directives with a high degree of independence and creativity.
• Demonstrate excellent ability to draw, illustrate and design in various media and styles.
• Have strong knowledge of product development and producing accurate depictions of envisioned product through to final.
• Possess the ability to provide visual interpretations/stylizations of characters appropriate to trends and product needs without compromising brand integrity.
• Ensure art requirements are satisfied while maintaining and/or raising the MGA creative standards.
• Ability to communicate with requestors, art-directors/designers/team members technically and creatively using industry standard terminology.
• Communicate and liaise with internal teams (PD, packaging, web, licensing, legal, and styleguide).
• Must be able to spot emerging art/design trends and have flexible art styles and apply to art where applicable.
• Work according to project briefing, creative vision and direction from requestor/Art Director.
• Have the ability to handle multiple assignments and changing priorities within a deadline driven environment.
• Bring ideas into action. Offering ideas to accomplish internal and external work resulting in working smarter and producing quality work within MGA’s standards.
• Operate with an on-going curiosity about emerging trends in the industry through research, observation, print media, and runway.
• Make sound decisions using MGA’s best practices.
• Ability to quickly learn and/or master a brand look, feel and style and help team to learn establish look/styles.
• Promote a strong sense of teamwork by working together effectively, respectfully and efficiently.
• Solve problems using critical and creative thinking.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills/Knowledge/Ability:

• Demonstrate good judgment and decision making
• Prefer to have thorough working knowledge of structure, perspective, human form, color and composition
• Expert working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, Keynote, Powerpoint. Excel is a plus
• Great organizational and time management skills
• Extremely detail-oriented
• Active listener
• Great visualization skills
• Strong communication skills
• Creative problem solver
• Motivated self-starter and proactive thinker/doer in a fast paced environmnent
• Friendly, people oriented team player willing and able to move from project to project
• Able to handle multiple tasks and changing priorities
• A sense of urgency and a strong, efficient work ethic
• Displays flexibility, a sense of humor and positive attitude
• Well versed in Mac, Photoshop & Illustrator

Salary Range:

$75,000 - $90,000 /yr