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Art Director 🔥


We’re hiring an experienced, collaborative Art Director, who will manage our small, globally based in-house Creative team of graphic designers. As the Head of Creative, you’ll set company-wide standards to evolve our brands, mentor our team, and sometimes pitch in with projects in a hands-on capacity. The global Creative Teams are responsible for internal and external marketing of static and motion assets such as programming requests for both app and web, social media posts, video trailers, pop-ups, improving banner CTR, community engagement assets, brand guidelines, annual promotions and merchandise, as well as lending visual support to various PR and BD campaigns.

What you’ll do:

  • Lead and mentor a small global team of graphic designers
  • Establish and track OKRs to amplify our brand, level-up our project management and file management systems, and take ownership of performance-based metrics around creative assets
  • Juggle multiple priorities for cross-department projects, while consistently meeting deadlines and leveling-up work for all Creative Team members
  • Streamline processes, reduce waste, and ensure the team manages time in ways that yield the best return to free up availability for experimental/exploratory projects
  • Utilize Adobe Creative Suite, and collaboration tools, such as Dropbox, Slack, Google Drive

You should:

  • Have a comprehensive online portfolio showcasing your modern visual design style for both web and mobile, and your ability to ideate and execute creatives
  • Our ideal candidate has a strong foundation in graphic design, experience at a digital media company (startup preferred), big picture vision, and project management skills
  • Keep up with design trends in the webcomics industry and the media world at large. You have a great eye for design and are passionate about staying on the cutting edge
  • Possess humility and a solution-oriented mindset to roll up your sleeves and get work completed—start-up mentality is a must!
  • Provide constructive criticism and thoughtful feedback to your team on a regular basis and be open to receiving feedback as well
  • Possess excellent communication skills within your team and across departments
  • Have an awareness of how Creative fits into the larger organization and team structure
  • Understand the challenges of managing a globally distributed team while maintaining cohesive company culture

What we’re looking for:

  • 6+ years of total industry experience in Graphic Design; digital media preferred
  • 2+ years of design team management, with an emphasis on mentorship
  • Cross-team experience representing Design in inter-departmental meetings, as well as proactively pitching new ideas to propel the company forward
  • Project management, assignment management, file management skills
  • Mastery of the Adobe Creative Suite, primarily Photoshop and Illustrator
  • Responsive Design experience (a must)
  • Social media design: IG, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube (a plus), Tik-Tok (a plus)
  • Experience with After Effects, Clip Studio (a plus)
  • Print Design experience (a plus)
  • Professional or personal background with webcomics, manga, manhwa, and novels

Perks & Benefits:

  • Flexible work schedule
  • Monday – Friday lunch allowances during COVID-19 remote work
  • Full benefits package with Medical/Dental/Vision insurance, FSA, 401K with match, and Commuter support if applicable
  • Device and ergo/office supply
  • Team activities/training/books
  • Gym/wellness support
  • Company swag

About Tapas Entertainment

Tapas Entertainment, a Kakao Entertainment company, is a next-generation media company, with content from Tapas Media, Radish, and Wuxiaworld.

At Tapas Media, we’re committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We believe that the enriched diverse perspectives of our employees, readers, and creators help deliver our unique content. We welcome prospective candidates from all backgrounds, race, ethnicity, gender, age, physical and mental ability, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, culture, language, and education.

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