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Creative Director
4 years ago
Mojang Studios is looking for a seasoned Creative Director. With the broad guidance of our Chief Creative Officer, you will be responsible for defining and executing on the overarching creative vision of all existing and new games in the Minecraft universe. You will be reporting to the Director of New Games, and have discipline directors as your direct reports.
Your duties include managing the game creatives through our discipline directors: game design UI/UX, art and audio teams, overseeing our design process, staffing, and growth of the teams that you manage. On the whole, your job is to support, coach and guide our teams to ensure that all creative expressions in our games fit the vision of the franchise.
You know how to communicate big ideas to executives, team members, and partner studios; you can succinctly define your vision and break it down to the smallest detail, using it to inspire those around you and motivate your team.
You are an expert on the video game industry and its evolution, aware of market trends and equipped to lead your team in creating the next big hit; you’re relentless in your pursuit of quality and attempt to capture it in every aspect of what you do.
Mojang always strives to be a diverse and inclusive studio and if you think this job sounds like your passion, you are more than welcome to apply, no matter who you are.
Responsibilities
The main and routine tasks of the creative director are to:
- Collaborate with the CCO to create vision that is innovative, strong, appropriate, fitting with our Minecraft IP, and implementable by the team.
- Accountable for the brand vision being reflected in all our games.
- Inspire and energize the team, utilizing pillars, research, data and references to lead them towards creative success.
- Guide and support the game creative team, defining the methods and strategies appropriate for our projects and championing them.
- Demonstrate pragmatism, weighing the ‘perfect vision’ against the realities of development and the nature of the different projects.
- Manage the discipline directors acting like the creative authority for our creative leads.
- Evaluate, hire, and assign talent for all creative disciplines through our directors.
- Liaise with creative leads in other locations and partners.
- You bring five-plus years of experience to the table as either a game director or similar creative leadership roles, have shipped high profile products
- Experience supervising small to medium sized teams.
- A big plus if you are a Minecraft player and know about our blocky game and fantastic community.
- We provide all employees with private health insurance
- You can allocate your personal education budget on anything (e.g. conferences, courses and literature) that will help your work. Develop yourself in an ever-changing industry with our generous education programme!
- We offer you a generous health benefit which you can use as you see fit through Wellnet, for example a gym membership, or why not with the masseuse that visits our office once a week
- The office is located on Södermalm, right in the heart of Stockholm
- We provide full relocation assistance for all applicants from outside of Sweden
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