Marketing Artist | Marketing | London | Permanent
We're Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.
We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.
Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.
We believe in: Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.
We're driven by our players! Come and join the mission!
Marketing Artist
Hutch is seeking an experienced multidisciplinary Marketing Artist to work within our growing Creative Services Team. We work closely with our Game Dev and Performance Marketing teams to promote and showcase our games. We believe in small autonomous teams that have a lot of responsibility. As such our Marketing Artists are true generalists and this role will give you the opportunity to focus on concepting, designing and creating video and static promotional content across our growing portfolio of games.
We are looking for a self-motivated, pragmatic Marketing Artist who thrives on the ability to be creative. You will have a passion to work in the mobile free to play space and be eager to immerse yourself in the marketable positioning of each game. This role requires collaboration across multiple teams and the ideal candidate will be comfortable facilitating conversations across disciplines as well as sharing new ideas and concepts with the team.
Responsibilities
- Create engaging and impactful marketing creatives (video and static) for social media/UA purposes
- Transfer key marketing initiatives into high quality consumer facing visuals
- Keeping abreast of emerging creative trends across digital platforms
- Work as part of an embedded team of 2-3 to come up with creative marketing ideas
- Iterate on new and previous ads to create eye catching content to optimise performance
- Independently research and innovate on new ideas for creatives
Requirements
- Open and creative
- Able to communicate complex ideas & visual hierarchy in simple, visually appealing ways
- Ability to create visually appealing creatives based on marketing pillars and strategy
- Excellent knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, particularly. After Effects, Premier Pro, Photoshop & Illustrator
- Experience & passion for creating both motion graphics & video content
- Good communication skills and a teamwork oriented attitude
- Exceptional eye for composition, colour & graphic design skills
- Understanding of social media, marketing and emerging trends, working and designing to platform technical specifications
- Confident and happy to work across multiple projects if & when required
- Able to work autonomously when required
Bonus Points
- Experience capturing gameplay in Unity Engine
- Knowledge of 3D software such as Maya & Blender
- Experience of working with outsourcing teams
- Experience with animation 2D, 3D
- Ability to render high quality static sizzle images
- Prior experience within the game industry or in a video game studio
- An understanding/awareness of user acquisition and app store optimization in the mobile games space
- Knowledge in basic sound design/editing
- A passion for video games
- We make games with cars in. If you love cars that's a bonus (but not a requirement!)
Benefits
Life at Hutch
Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch in central London. We have additional offices in Dundee and Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with;
- Hutch is now a 4-Day Work Week company*
- Flexible working hours
- Remote working 2 days per week
- Excellent salary
- Private health care
- Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
- Access to mental health initiatives such as private mental health coaching
- Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
- Free snacks and drinks
- Social events, game launch parties, Thursday night drinks and much more
- This will mean that Hutch employees will work a maximum of 4 days per week (30 hours/week) Mon-Thurs, with zero reductions in pay (compared to a 5 day working week)
Our Values
- Transparent - Being transparent and open helps us to be trusted and fosters integrity
- Humble - When we are humble we show humility, we let go of egos and we are self-aware
- Collaborative - We value teamwork, the spirit of collaboration and the results of working together
- Driven - We have drive and ambition and always push for the best results rather than settling
- Adaptable - Demonstrating the ability to adapt ultimately helps us grow and helps us thrive in different situations
We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it's not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/
