Marketing Artist (Contract)

Marketing Artist
This is a ~30 hour/week contract position.
Get into Unity, beautifully arrange characters and items for screenshots and keyart, and polish them to perfection to highlight the best of Hello Kitty Island Adventure.

Core Responsibilities

Create high-quality, character-focused promotional art packages for marketing campaigns and product updates
Collaborate with marketing and art leadership to ensure alignment with brand guidelines and game aesthetics
Balance planned work with emergent marketing opportunities, communicating feasibility and proposing trade-offs where necessary

Required Experience

2D art background with an ability to demonstrate work in a similar style to Hello Kitty Island Adventure’s marketing initiatives

Strong eye for composition, lighting, and color that tells a story
Ability to seamlessly blend, paint over, and polish 3D renders to create a cohesive single image
Proficient in graphic design with a keen eye for creating visually balanced and harmonious compositions
Ability to quickly synthesize game art style and brand guidelines, responding well to feedback
Excellent verbal, written, and visual communication skills
Availability during standard business hours (US Mountain Time) to collaborate with teammates in real-time

Bonus Experience

3D and/or Unity experience for manipulating in-game assets to create 2D promotional images
Deep understanding of kawaii aesthetics and current trends in cozy game marketing

Experience breaking down 2D assets into clean layered pieces ready for use in animation software such as Spine

Skilled in logo design with a focus on visual identity
Experience creating marketing art for an established IP

Hours & Expectations

This is a 3 month initial contract with opportunities for extension depending on project status and work compatibility. We expect 30-40 hours a week most weeks.

Help Enrich Our World

We encourage underrepresented applicants to apply even if you do not meet 100% of the qualifications.

Transparency in AI Usage

If you’re using ChatGPT or other AI to write your cover letter, please disclose it with a brief initial sentence (and whether you are or aren’t, please let us know your favorite Sanrio character, too). We consider transparency in AI usage important.

If you utilize AI in your concept process, please let us know how, and clearly disclose pieces with AI in their pipeline.