Marketing Art Contractor

Jackbox Games is looking for a Marketing Art Contractor to join our marketing team!

Hourly rate: $25, Approximately 30 hours per week (estimated 16 weeks total), with the potential to transition into a full-time position. We offer remote work in the following states: California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin.
Estimated Start Date: September 1st - 15th

Who are We?

Jackbox is a small game studio (~80 people) best known for our Jackbox Party Pack franchise: a set of five social party games released every fall. Since 2014, our games--like Quiplash, Drawful, and Trivia Murder Party-- have been featured on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, by Polygon, and in living rooms and finished basements across the world.

In 2020, we had over 200 million users. And we have hard evidence that one of those users was Academy Award-winner Charlize Theron.

You can learn everything you ever wanted to know about how our games work (spoiler: your phone is the controller!) and who we are and what we make at jackboxgames.com.

What’s the Job?

The Jackbox Games Marketing Team is bursting with opportunities and challenges as more people than ever are discovering our games! We are releasing more new games every year and we have big ambitions to turn more of our IP into games recognized and enjoyed by households across the United States and beyond. 

We are looking for an experienced Marketing Art Contractor who can work hand-in-hand with our marketing team members to create visual assets and video content that inspires more people to play our games. This person will work closely with our team to improve engagement on our social media channels, improve click-through rates on our advertising, and develop commercials and trailers that show off existing and upcoming titles. We are looking for someone who can work with the game teams to develop compelling gameplay showcases for upcoming titles (see an example of one here) and also help refresh our ad creative when it is getting stale (here’s one to check out). 

The art in our games has inspired a community of fan artists and attachment to our characters. On the marketing team, we love to use this as inspiration for visual assets we’re putting out into the wild, from an Instagram post for a PlayStation sale or the commercial we create to encourage people to play the new title around the holidays. We also utilize a lot of live action video of people enjoying our games in advertisements so that it’s easy to quickly understand the environments our games exist within. This person will report to the Director of Marketing, but also run creative concepts by the Chief Creative Officer for feedback.

Responsibilities

• Support the creation of promotional materials for our products and website
• Provide animation and illustration support for video commercials, digital advertisements, and game trailers 
• Develop and follow a calendar for refreshing creative assets used on our advertising channels
• Develop templates for sale art that we can repurpose for each platform 
• As needed, manage and provide feedback to any freelancers or contract artists that we bring on to support the team during busy times of the year 
• Act as a gatekeeper and protector of our visual branding and develop visual branding guidelines for Jackbox that we can share with vendors, partners, and our PR agencies 
• Work with our Marketing Producer to make sure any advertising art or video we create has received approval from platform representatives and internal stakeholders

Ideal Candidates Will Have...

• At least 2+ years of relevant experience. New grads need not apply.
• A strong ability to prioritize varied workloads with long and short-term deadlines 
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative suite 
• Experience with producing and editing video content (bonus: experience making trailers or commercial content)
• Experience with creating static and video advertisements
• Strong illustration, graphic design, and motion graphic skills
• A great eye for color and composition
• An interest in creating meme-style art for social media channels
• The ability to take creative guidelines and character art from the games and mimic or replicate it in marketing content 
• A team player mindset. Our marketing department intersects with almost every other department in our company and you will need to be able to work effectively both on your own and as part of a larger group. 
• A roll-up-your-sleeves mentality. We have a very entrepreneurial, get-it-done culture that takes pride in our strong work ethic and low tolerance for micromanaging or posturing. 

We value kind, motivated, and creative people. Jackbox Games is a group effort and you must work collaboratively. Everyone here is committed to excellence and desires to work in a comfortable, friendly atmosphere.

Jackbox Games is committed to providing opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, ancestry, age, veteran status, or disability. 

HOW TO APPLY

• Submit your portfolio/reel
• Submit a cover letter that highlights three reasons you think you’d be a great member of our marketing team, focusing on how your past work experience has prepared you for this kind of position as well as links to any video or static content that exists online that you’ve had a hand in. We weigh cover letters heavily. 

We know it is a time commitment to prepare an application and we respect that effort by thoughtfully reviewing every complete application and responding one way or the other. But that kind of thoughtful review means that it sometimes takes us a while to get back to applicants, so please be patient with us and no phone calls.

Thanks for your interest in Jackbox Games!

F.A.Q.

• I'm not sure if I'm qualified. Should I apply?
  We would much rather read your application than miss out on a great candidate, so please err on the side of applying. If you are passionate about games and are a Content Marketing Specialist, give it a shot! Worse thing that happens is you don't get the job, but we promise you're not wasting our time.
• What if I’m too qualified and have extensive work experience?
  You should still apply. We are looking for the best candidates and we will adjust responsibilities (and compensation) to match your experience.