Digital Artist (UA)

Job Details

Type: Permanent Full-time

WHAT IMPACT CAN A DIGITAL ARTIST HAVE AT ESG?

At East Side Games, we all band together to deliver a world-class gameplay experience for our players around the globe. We are on the lookout for a passionate Artist to join our Growth Team. You (yes, you!) will take pride in crafting a variety of compelling digital creatives for marketing, social media campaigns, and user acquisition (UA) advertisements across our ever-growing catalog of mobile game titles.

This is a fast-paced environment, in which high levels of creative stamina and a positive attitude are a must! You’ll also need to have excellent communication and time management skills to be able to quickly adapt and juggle overlapping deadlines while keeping your cool.

WHAT WILL YOU DO:

• Design in a timely manner eye-catchy creatives for social media posts and ads, including:
  • Videos (ads, teasers & trailers)
  • Statics (banners, resizes, re-layouts, localisations)
  • Playables
  • Cinemagraphs
• Work with team members to effectively brainstorm and create exceptional social & UA creatives from ideation to full implementation.
• Respond to ongoing opportunities to leverage pop culture and current events in the creation of relevant organic social content and ads.
• Monitor best practices in social media & UA creatives for the mobile games industry.

WHAT WILL YOU BRING:

• 1-4 years experience in multimedia, graphic design, or related fields.
• Video editing experience.
• Proficiency with the Adobe Creative Suite with strong Photoshop/AE/Premiere Pro skills
• Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Very detail-oriented, resourceful, and responsible
• A strong interest in and knowledge of the Mobile game space.
• Experience working within a (digital) ad agency is a bonus.

TO COMPLEMENT OUR CURRENT TEAM, YOU ARE

• A mobile game fanatic. You are on top of the latest games, trends, and what’s happening in live events
• Comfortable in an environment where priorities and plans change rapidly
• Solution-oriented, self-motivated and have the attitude to get things done
• Hungry and humble, you place the needs of the project first
• Always willing to bring ideas to the table
• Empathic, compassionate, and curious
• Your values are governed by diversity and inclusion

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO WORK AT ESG?

We are East Side Games – proudly built in beautiful BC. Our mission is to create games that are easy to pick up, hard to put down, and don’t suck! We put players at the heart of our evolution, independence, and profitability. With their help, we’ve defined and become the leader in the narrative idle gaming space, writing the playbook on LiveOps in the process. Our huge IPs serve a traditionally underserved audience globally… And we’re just getting started!

Community is everything here. We put people at the core of what we do. Our games and our team have the same goal; to be inclusive and for everyone. We get sh*t done and our team is on hand to step in, listen, and support, regardless of rank. Tackle your challenges, share your learnings, then share refreshments with the studio in our weekly Cheers Friday Announcements. Have we piqued your curiosity? Then check out our amazing Culture and Benefits! We note that our culture is not a monolith, and is ever-changing based on the folks holding space at East Side Games.

WE’RE BUILT ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

East Side Games are an equitable employer that values justice, equity, diversity and inclusion. We welcome and encourage people of marginalized backgrounds, particularly QTBIPOC folks, to apply, and will acknowledge and value the strengths you bring to foster yours and the studio’s growth.

If this sounds like something you hoped for and more, and you’re enthused to build genre-defining narrative idle games, click the “Apply Here” button below. If now is not the right time for you but you know someone who would be a great match for us at East Side Games, check out our referral bonus here! Let’s build great games together.

WHAT’S NEXT?

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Due to a small (but completely awesome) recruitment team, only those candidates that qualify will be contacted.  Thanks for your interest in ESG and we wish you super success in your job search!