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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 Group162
- Amazon98
- Apple59
- Adobe55
- Creative Health Solutions51
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software1,256
- Education335
- Consulting & Professional Services295
- Retail292
- Construction & Real Estate228
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in creative jobs.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
- Portfolio demonstrating a range of completed creative projects
- Experience developing concepts from brief through final delivery
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for presenting ideas
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines
- Bachelor's degree in graphic design, fine arts, communications, or a related field
Tips for Your Creative Job Search
Tailor your portfolio to each role
Creative hiring managers look at your book before your resume. Swap in work that mirrors the industry or style of the company you're targeting, whether that's bold consumer campaigns, clean B2B design, or editorial illustration.
Show process, not just final work
Include sketches, wireframes, or before-and-after drafts alongside your finished pieces. Hiring managers want to see how you think and solve problems, not just the polished output that made it to print or launch.
Translate creative output into business results
Your resume needs more than project titles. Note the goal behind each piece and what it achieved: a rebrand that increased engagement, a campaign that drove conversions, or a content series that grew an audience.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists creative openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a leave-behind or case study
For final-round interviews, a short PDF walkthrough of one relevant project sets you apart. Walk through the brief, your decisions, and the outcome. It gives interviewers something concrete to discuss and share internally after you leave.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate salary
Ask about the team structure, number of direct reports, and ownership of the creative process before discussing compensation. Knowing whether you'll be a solo contributor or leading a team changes the value of any offer.
Creative Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most creatives?
The companies hiring the most creatives right now include Nexstar Media Group, Amazon, and Apple, with the largest share of openings in California, New York, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Demand is concentrated at agencies, consumer brands, and in-house marketing teams at mid-to-large companies.
How many creative jobs are remote?
About 26% of creative openings are fully remote or hybrid as of June 2026, making it one of the more flexible fields for location-independent work. Copywriting, content strategy, and digital design roles tend to have the highest share of remote availability, while art direction and experiential roles lean more on-site.
How do you become a creative?
Start by building a portfolio through freelance projects, personal work, or volunteer assignments for nonprofits and local businesses. Develop proficiency in industry-standard tools like Adobe Creative Suite. Seek internships or junior roles at agencies or in-house teams to learn how briefs, feedback cycles, and production pipelines work in practice, then refine your niche from there.
How do you get hired as a creative with little experience?
Lead with your portfolio, not your resume. Spec work, student projects, and self-initiated campaigns all count. Apply to junior, associate, or assistant creative roles at smaller agencies where you'll get hands-on work faster. Reach out to senior creatives for informational conversations and ask for honest feedback on your book before you start applying broadly.
What does the creative interview process look like?
Most creative roles involve a portfolio review followed by a conversation about your process, past projects, and how you handle feedback. Later rounds often include a brief or creative challenge where you present concepts to the team. Final rounds typically bring in a creative director or cross-functional stakeholders to assess cultural and strategic fit before an offer is extended.
Where can I find and apply to creative jobs?
You can find and apply to creative jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Find roles that match your background and apply directly to each listing without leaving the platform.
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