Creative Lead

Roles and responsibilities

As a Creative Artist for Everskies, you’ll be at the forefront of creating unique and stylish fashion items that enhance our players’ in-game experience. Working closely with the LiveOps team, you’ll collaborate to design and implement avatar assets that resonate with our community while supporting exciting in-game events. We’re looking for someone who’s not only passionate about gaming and virtual spaces, but also has a strong creative side to support avatar and fashion design.

Responsibilities

• Create stunning pixel art and avatar assets with a focus on fashion items that resonate with our community. (Bonus: experience designing animated assets!)
• Collaborate with the team to iterate on designs based on feedback, refining them to perfection through multiple stages.
• Support event creation with art assets for in-game use and social media, ensuring they align with the event’s theme and objectives. Provide support and guidance to in-game creators, fostering a creative and collaborative environment.
• Understand and engage with our community: leverage your experience with game/forum communities to tailor your designs and events to fit the userbase's unique needs and preferences.
• Proactively contribute new ideas and improvements to enhance live operations, showing initiative to push our platform forward.
• Proven experience in pixel art and avatar design, with a portfolio to back it up.
• Basic to intermediate experience with Adobe Creative Suite, especially Photoshop, for creating digital assets.
• Strong understanding and experience in forum or game communities; you know what makes communities tick and how to cater to their needs.
• Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to take and implement feedback effectively.

Desired candidate profile

• Impact: Your work will directly affect millions of users around the world.
• Growth: Your growth isn’t capped by a career ladder. Show us you can deliver the impact, and we’ll respond with recognition and reward.
• Elite team: You’ll be a member of a small and elite team with a lot of freedom to go after opportunities you identify.
• Culture: High trust, high intensity, low process and bureaucracy. We pride ourselves in being a Silicon Valley startup with a laser focus on the mission, and we’ll happily remove all roadblocks in your path to success.
• Reward: This role offers a highly competitive salary and very generous equity. Our incentives will be directly aligned toward success.
• Office and team: Directly work with the cofounders in our office in Downtown Austin.