Role Overview:
The Creative Director will work for a new first party studio in charge of developing New IPs. Your main responsibility will be to successfully establish a new studio and secure its games by providing a creative direction for its products that are not only seen as innovative by players but also “Must Plays” by the wider industry . You must make key creative decisions with the development team while nurturing the industries best talent.
Role Responsibilities:
General:
- Represent and nurture our studio in your area
- Establish the studio/project strategy in your area
- Help recruit a best in class, results driven team
- Work collaboratively with other directors, leads and developers to support project and studio strategies
- Own our games creative vision and carry forward our studio’s culture/ideology
- Become the role model through your knowledge, inspiration, and behaviour for all who work around you
Specifics:
- Provide a loud & clear Creative Direction that leaves little room for misinterpretation while inspiring and engaging your teams
- Application of current and historical cultural media references (movies, TV, literature, games, pop culture , music etc.)
- Application of various industry/further afield business models that can support your ideas
- Unite Narrative, Cinematic, Universe Building, Game Mechanics, Graphics, Audio and Technical with your creative recipe
- Inspired, never forced, selling of your ideas to others on its creative merit.
Role Requirements
- Experience as Creative Director for two years or more
- 8 years + of game development experience on Game Consoles
- General understanding of all creative and technical elements used for developing a game
- Expert in identifying what is markable, fun and must have for players
- Avid gamer who keeps abreast of current trends
- Ability to self-organize and organize others autonomously
- Ability to cooperate and construct positive relationships with other directors, leads, and staff.
- Ability to communicate digestible ideas to others with simplicity, creativity, and logic
- Ability to prepare, present and document material for others
- Ability to hands on review and give low level feedback on the game to the team
- Strong presentation and sales skills
- Experience in marketing creative ideas a plus
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