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About the Company
If you want to build, develop, and see your impact, join Skillz and level up your Career!
Skillz, the first publicly-traded mobile eSports platform that hosts billions of casual mobile gaming tournaments for millions of players worldwide, is revolutionizing the gaming industry. By fostering social competition within games, the Skillz platform helps developers build multi-million dollar franchises by enabling real-money activity in their games and providing operational support while connecting players through fair, enjoyable, and meaningful competition.
At Skillz, we understand the thrill of achievement and the satisfaction of overcoming challenges. Want to join a team made up of alums from Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, Twitter (X), Roblox, Zynga, Samsung, Lyft, EA, Riot, Nexon, Gameskraft, PlayStation, Unity, Scopely, Tinder, Intel, Deloitte, EY, Twitch, DraftKings, Wynn Resorts and more? Learn more to see if Skillz is the right fit for your next career move!
The Role
The Creative Director role is critical to scaling Skillz's brand and performance growth by owning creative strategy, execution, and operational excellence end-to-end. It ensures brand consistency, accelerates performance outcomes on the Competition platform, and drives efficiency across people, process, and spend. Without this role, creative execution becomes fragmented, slower, and less effective - directly impacting growth, customer experience, and ROI.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the creative vision across performance, lifecycle, and brand, ensuring consistency, quality, and measurable impact on growth and engagement.
- Oversee end-to-end creative production for brand and Competition platform initiatives, embedding scalable processes, quality standards, and speed.
- Define guardrails and best practices for AI-assisted creative, balancing speed, cost efficiency, and originality across UA, lifecycle, and brand initiatives.
- Serve as the senior creative performance lead for the Competition platform, translating brand foundations into high-performing creative across channels.
- Build, lead, and develop a world-class in-house creative organization, setting structure, roles, and a high creative bar.
- Own creative investment strategy, including budgeting, forecasting, vendor selection, and cost-per-asset optimization.
- Partner cross-functionally with Growth, Product, and Brand leaders to prioritize initiatives, align resourcing, and embed creative into planning and launches.
Key Competencies
- Strategic creative leadership with a strong performance and brand mindset
- Data- and AI-informed creative decision-making, leveraging experimentation, performance insights, and emerging tools to drive impact
- Operational excellence and ability to scale creative systems efficiently
- Strong people leadership, accountability, and cross-functional influence
- Exceptional visual storytelling and quality judgment
Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Design, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in creative roles, with 5+ years in senior creative leadership
- Experience integrating AI or automation into creative workflows to improve speed, scalability, or cost-per-asset is strongly preferred.
- Proven experience leading creative operations, production, and efficiency initiatives
- Strong portfolio demonstrating both creative excellence and leadership impact
- Mobile gaming experience preferred; mix of agency and in-house experience strongly preferred
Total Starting Compensation including Base + Bonus + Equity: $269,393
Location: Hybrid, San Francisco
Travel Requirement: 10-20%
Why Skillz
- Culture of Impact: Join a united team of builders, creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven by the desire to win. At Skillz, we create value, obsess over our product, and make a difference in the world.
- Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with our comprehensive benefits package, which includes 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision expenses for both you and your dependents. Additionally, take advantage of our 401K matching, equity incentives, pre-tax benefit options, and more.
- Wellness Support: Enhance your well-being with our array of wellness initiatives, including meditation and mental health resources, physical fitness coaching and classes, family planning assistance, health and parenting guidance, virtual therapy sessions, and more.
- Time off: We offer competitive paid time off (PTO) & company holidays to help you recharge and pursue your passions.
- Las Vegas Headquarters: Skillz strongly believes in a five-day a week, collaborative office environment at our 36,000+ square foot headquarters. Enjoy free breakfast and catered lunches, snacks, a full-size gym with showers, commuter benefits, insurance, team bonding events and many more.
- Recognized Success: Skillz has earned recognition as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, CNBC's Disruptor 50, San Francisco Business Times' Best Places to Work, Forbes' Next Billion-Dollar Startups, and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000 list, and many more.
- Development Opportunities: We hold our employees to high standards while providing them with professional growth opportunities. We operate like a startup, and encourage all of our employees to collaborate and voice feedback about our product and ways we can improve as a business. We believe in never settling, and that also pertains to your growth.
Join Skillz and Let's Redefine the Boundaries of Gaming!
Together, we'll create a world where skill, passion, and innovation thrive. We look forward to having you on board!
Skillz embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As part of our commitment to diversifying our workforce, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or disability status, and we operate in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
About the Company
If you want to build, develop, and see your impact, join Skillz and level up your Career!
Skillz, the first publicly-traded mobile eSports platform that hosts billions of casual mobile gaming tournaments for millions of players worldwide, is revolutionizing the gaming industry. By fostering social competition within games, the Skillz platform helps developers build multi-million dollar franchises by enabling real-money activity in their games and providing operational support while connecting players through fair, enjoyable, and meaningful competition.
At Skillz, we understand the thrill of achievement and the satisfaction of overcoming challenges. Want to join a team made up of alums from Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, Twitter (X), Roblox, Zynga, Samsung, Lyft, EA, Riot, Nexon, Gameskraft, PlayStation, Unity, Scopely, Tinder, Intel, Deloitte, EY, Twitch, DraftKings, Wynn Resorts and more? Learn more to see if Skillz is the right fit for your next career move!
The Role
The Creative Director role is critical to scaling Skillz's brand and performance growth by owning creative strategy, execution, and operational excellence end-to-end. It ensures brand consistency, accelerates performance outcomes on the Competition platform, and drives efficiency across people, process, and spend. Without this role, creative execution becomes fragmented, slower, and less effective - directly impacting growth, customer experience, and ROI.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the creative vision across performance, lifecycle, and brand, ensuring consistency, quality, and measurable impact on growth and engagement.
- Oversee end-to-end creative production for brand and Competition platform initiatives, embedding scalable processes, quality standards, and speed.
- Define guardrails and best practices for AI-assisted creative, balancing speed, cost efficiency, and originality across UA, lifecycle, and brand initiatives.
- Serve as the senior creative performance lead for the Competition platform, translating brand foundations into high-performing creative across channels.
- Build, lead, and develop a world-class in-house creative organization, setting structure, roles, and a high creative bar.
- Own creative investment strategy, including budgeting, forecasting, vendor selection, and cost-per-asset optimization.
- Partner cross-functionally with Growth, Product, and Brand leaders to prioritize initiatives, align resourcing, and embed creative into planning and launches.
Key Competencies
- Strategic creative leadership with a strong performance and brand mindset
- Data- and AI-informed creative decision-making, leveraging experimentation, performance insights, and emerging tools to drive impact
- Operational excellence and ability to scale creative systems efficiently
- Strong people leadership, accountability, and cross-functional influence
- Exceptional visual storytelling and quality judgment
Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Design, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in creative roles, with 5+ years in senior creative leadership
- Experience integrating AI or automation into creative workflows to improve speed, scalability, or cost-per-asset is strongly preferred.
- Proven experience leading creative operations, production, and efficiency initiatives
- Strong portfolio demonstrating both creative excellence and leadership impact
- Mobile gaming experience preferred; mix of agency and in-house experience strongly preferred
Total Starting Compensation including Base + Bonus + Equity: $269,393
Location: Hybrid, San Francisco
Travel Requirement: 10-20%
Why Skillz
- Culture of Impact: Join a united team of builders, creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven by the desire to win. At Skillz, we create value, obsess over our product, and make a difference in the world.
- Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with our comprehensive benefits package, which includes 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision expenses for both you and your dependents. Additionally, take advantage of our 401K matching, equity incentives, pre-tax benefit options, and more.
- Wellness Support: Enhance your well-being with our array of wellness initiatives, including meditation and mental health resources, physical fitness coaching and classes, family planning assistance, health and parenting guidance, virtual therapy sessions, and more.
- Time off: We offer competitive paid time off (PTO) & company holidays to help you recharge and pursue your passions.
- Las Vegas Headquarters: Skillz strongly believes in a five-day a week, collaborative office environment at our 36,000+ square foot headquarters. Enjoy free breakfast and catered lunches, snacks, a full-size gym with showers, commuter benefits, insurance, team bonding events and many more.
- Recognized Success: Skillz has earned recognition as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, CNBC's Disruptor 50, San Francisco Business Times' Best Places to Work, Forbes' Next Billion-Dollar Startups, and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000 list, and many more.
- Development Opportunities: We hold our employees to high standards while providing them with professional growth opportunities. We operate like a startup, and encourage all of our employees to collaborate and voice feedback about our product and ways we can improve as a business. We believe in never settling, and that also pertains to your growth.
Join Skillz and Let's Redefine the Boundaries of Gaming!
Together, we'll create a world where skill, passion, and innovation thrive. We look forward to having you on board!
Skillz embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As part of our commitment to diversifying our workforce, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or disability status, and we operate in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
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A snapshot from current openings nationwide, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
- Nexstar Media Group17
- Apple11
- Amazon9
- Avalere Health7
- Adobe6
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software108
- Education54
- Marketing & Advertising40
- Retail40
- Media & Entertainment24
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in creative director jobs.
- 8 or more years of creative experience with at least 2 in a leadership role
- Portfolio demonstrating brand strategy, campaign concepting, and visual direction
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, or equivalent design tools
- Experience managing and mentoring designers, copywriters, and art directors
- Ability to present creative concepts to senior stakeholders and clients
- Bachelor's degree in graphic design, fine arts, advertising, or a related field
Tips for Your Creative Director Job Search
Tailor your portfolio for each application
Creative directors are hired on taste and judgment, not just execution. Curate your portfolio to reflect the industry you're targeting, a retail brand wants different work than a tech company. Cut anything that doesn't show strategic thinking behind the creative.
Quantify the business impact of your campaigns
Hiring teams want to know what your creative direction produced. Where you can, tie projects to outcomes like engagement lifts, conversion improvements, or brand awareness shifts. Even rough context beats a portfolio that shows only the finished aesthetic.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists creative director openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target companies going through rebrands or launches
Creative director hiring spikes when a company is rebranding, launching a product line, or entering a new market. Watch for press releases, funding announcements, and leadership changes that signal a company is about to invest heavily in creative output.
Prepare to present your creative process, not just results
Creative director interviews almost always include a case study or presentation round. Expect to walk through how a campaign or brand system evolved from brief to final output, including the decisions you made and the ones you pushed back on.
Negotiate scope and team structure, not only pay
In your offer conversation, clarify what the creative team looks like, who you report to, and how much say you have in hiring. A strong title with no budget authority or reporting structure is a constraint that shows up immediately after you start.
Creative Director Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most creative directors?
The companies hiring the most creative directors right now include Nexstar Media Group, Apple, and Amazon, with the largest share of openings in California, New York, and Illinois, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Demand is strongest at consumer brands, agencies, and media and entertainment companies.
How many creative director jobs are remote?
About 27% of creative director openings are fully remote or hybrid as of June 2026, with remote work most common in digital marketing, content strategy, and UX-focused creative roles. In-person requirements are more typical at agencies and companies where the creative director is expected to lead on-site production or collaborate daily with brand and product teams.
How do you become a creative director?
Most creative directors start in a specialist role such as graphic design, copywriting, or art direction, then move into a senior or lead position where they manage projects and junior creatives. Building a portfolio that shows both craft and strategic thinking is essential. From there, taking on cross-functional projects, leading pitches, and owning brand or campaign outcomes builds the leadership record hiring teams look for at the director level.
Can you get hired as a creative director without direct experience in the title?
Yes, candidates without the exact title can land creative director roles by demonstrating that they have functionally done the work. A strong portfolio showing brand ownership, team leadership, and campaign concepting carries more weight than the title on a resume. Many hiring managers look at whether you've led creative decisions, managed other creatives, and presented work to stakeholders, regardless of what your official role was called.
What does the creative director interview process look like?
Most creative director processes include an initial call with a recruiter or hiring manager, a portfolio review, and a presentation round where you walk through one or two projects in depth. Later rounds typically involve meeting cross-functional stakeholders such as marketing, product, or brand leadership. Some companies add a creative brief or strategic exercise to assess how you think through a problem from brief to concept, not just how polished your existing work is.
Where can I find and apply to creative director jobs?
You can find and apply to creative director jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your background and apply directly to each one. New openings are added regularly, so checking back often gives you access to roles as soon as they become available.
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