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Principal Designer roles qualify for TN visa sponsorship under the USMCA's Engineer and Scientific Technician categories when the position requires a relevant bachelor's degree. Canadian citizens can enter at the port of entry without a cap. Mexican nationals apply through a U.S. consulate under a limited annual allocation.
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Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.
About the Company
Fanatics Collectibles is a new company operating at the intersection of collectibles, culture, and technology. Backed by world-class investors, operators, and sports & entertainment partners, we are building the global leader in next-generation collectibles. As part of the broader Fanatics ecosystem, we leverage a digital sports platform that spans over 900 sports properties and engages more than 81 million fans. Together, we are reimagining every part of the collectibles experience for fans, partners, and creators.
About the Team
Fanatics TCG is a new Seattle-based trading card game studio within the Fanatics Collectibles family, founded by industry veterans with a long-term mandate: to build enduring franchises that live across tabletop, digital, community, and culture. We're looking for the most skilled and passionate talent in the games industry and beyond to help us create the best trading card games in the world.
Who We're Looking For
Fanatics TCG is seeking a Principal Graphic Designer to serve as a senior individual contributor and studio-level craft leader. In this role, you will define and steward the graphic design systems that shape our trading card game franchises, translating creative direction and gameplay needs into distinctive, scalable, and production-ready solutions.
Your work will span franchise identity, card-frame architecture, typography, iconography, color systems, templates, packaging, and marketing materials. You will remain actively involved in design execution while also establishing the principles, standards, and tools that enable other designers and cross-functional partners to create consistent, high-quality work.
In close partnership with the Creative Director, Art Directors, Game Design, Product Development, and Production teams, you will lead the studio's most complex graphic design challenges, influence high-impact visual decisions, and elevate design quality through hands-on work, thoughtful critique, and mentorship.
Responsibilities
- Define and steward the visual design language for Fanatics TCG franchises, ensuring each property has a distinctive, recognizable, and scalable identity.
- Lead the development and ongoing evolution of card-frame systems, including frame architecture, information hierarchy, typography, iconography, color, and the visual grammar used to communicate gameplay information.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive franchise identity systems, including logos, color systems, typography, graphic elements, and brand standards.
- Translate creative concepts into documented design systems, templates, shared libraries, and production tools that can be applied consistently across cards, packaging, marketing materials, and related brand touchpoints.
- Serve as the hands-on design lead for high-impact, highly complex, or ambiguous initiatives, guiding work from early exploration and concept development through production-ready execution.
- Partner with Game Design to ensure graphic systems support readability, information hierarchy, and gameplay comprehension without compromising the distinct character of each franchise.
- Collaborate with Creative, Product Development, and Production partners to balance creative ambition with product requirements, print capabilities, manufacturing constraints, schedules, and business objectives.
- Establish and uphold graphic design quality standards across the product line, reviewing key work and identifying solutions when designs do not meet established creative, functional, or production requirements.
- Act as a trusted design authority by clearly articulating design rationale, evaluating creative tradeoffs, and building alignment among creative and non-creative stakeholders.
- Provide actionable critique, mentorship, and technical guidance to other designers, helping the team apply shared standards while continuing to develop their individual craft.
- Identify recurring design, workflow, and production challenges and lead improvements to templates, documentation, review practices, asset management, and cross-functional handoffs.
- Maintain organized, accurate, and accessible design files, standards, and shared assets that support efficient collaboration and long-term franchise development.
Qualifications & Experience
- 8 or more years of professional graphic design experience, or equivalent experience demonstrating ownership of complex brand, identity, or design-system work.
- A portfolio demonstrating advanced craft in typography, hierarchy, composition, color, and information design, including work for highly constrained or information-dense formats.
- Demonstrated experience creating and evolving scalable visual systems, templates, standards, and shared tools that support consistent execution across products and contributors.
- The ability to lead complex or ambiguous design challenges, translate creative direction into practical solutions, and influence decisions through clear design rationale and constructive collaboration.
- Experience partnering across creative, product, game design, and production disciplines, while providing mentorship, critique, or craft guidance to other designers.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and strong working knowledge of print production, packaging, file preparation, and template-based design.
Location
All employees of Fanatics TCG are expected to be onsite in our Seattle office five days per week.
Ensure your Fanatics job offer is legitimate and don't fall victim to fraud. Fanatics never seeks payment from job applicants. Feel free to ask your recruiter for a phone call or other type of communication for interview, and ensure your communication is coming from a Fanatics email address (including @collectfanatics.com). For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at www.fanaticsinc.com/careers.
By submitting your application, you agree to our terms of service and acknowledge you have read our Candidate Privacy Policy.
About us
Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.
About the Company
Fanatics Collectibles is a new company operating at the intersection of collectibles, culture, and technology. Backed by world-class investors, operators, and sports & entertainment partners, we are building the global leader in next-generation collectibles. As part of the broader Fanatics ecosystem, we leverage a digital sports platform that spans over 900 sports properties and engages more than 81 million fans. Together, we are reimagining every part of the collectibles experience for fans, partners, and creators.
About the Team
Fanatics TCG is a new Seattle-based trading card game studio within the Fanatics Collectibles family, founded by industry veterans with a long-term mandate: to build enduring franchises that live across tabletop, digital, community, and culture. We're looking for the most skilled and passionate talent in the games industry and beyond to help us create the best trading card games in the world.
Who We're Looking For
Fanatics TCG is seeking a Principal Graphic Designer to serve as a senior individual contributor and studio-level craft leader. In this role, you will define and steward the graphic design systems that shape our trading card game franchises, translating creative direction and gameplay needs into distinctive, scalable, and production-ready solutions.
Your work will span franchise identity, card-frame architecture, typography, iconography, color systems, templates, packaging, and marketing materials. You will remain actively involved in design execution while also establishing the principles, standards, and tools that enable other designers and cross-functional partners to create consistent, high-quality work.
In close partnership with the Creative Director, Art Directors, Game Design, Product Development, and Production teams, you will lead the studio's most complex graphic design challenges, influence high-impact visual decisions, and elevate design quality through hands-on work, thoughtful critique, and mentorship.
Responsibilities
- Define and steward the visual design language for Fanatics TCG franchises, ensuring each property has a distinctive, recognizable, and scalable identity.
- Lead the development and ongoing evolution of card-frame systems, including frame architecture, information hierarchy, typography, iconography, color, and the visual grammar used to communicate gameplay information.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive franchise identity systems, including logos, color systems, typography, graphic elements, and brand standards.
- Translate creative concepts into documented design systems, templates, shared libraries, and production tools that can be applied consistently across cards, packaging, marketing materials, and related brand touchpoints.
- Serve as the hands-on design lead for high-impact, highly complex, or ambiguous initiatives, guiding work from early exploration and concept development through production-ready execution.
- Partner with Game Design to ensure graphic systems support readability, information hierarchy, and gameplay comprehension without compromising the distinct character of each franchise.
- Collaborate with Creative, Product Development, and Production partners to balance creative ambition with product requirements, print capabilities, manufacturing constraints, schedules, and business objectives.
- Establish and uphold graphic design quality standards across the product line, reviewing key work and identifying solutions when designs do not meet established creative, functional, or production requirements.
- Act as a trusted design authority by clearly articulating design rationale, evaluating creative tradeoffs, and building alignment among creative and non-creative stakeholders.
- Provide actionable critique, mentorship, and technical guidance to other designers, helping the team apply shared standards while continuing to develop their individual craft.
- Identify recurring design, workflow, and production challenges and lead improvements to templates, documentation, review practices, asset management, and cross-functional handoffs.
- Maintain organized, accurate, and accessible design files, standards, and shared assets that support efficient collaboration and long-term franchise development.
Qualifications & Experience
- 8 or more years of professional graphic design experience, or equivalent experience demonstrating ownership of complex brand, identity, or design-system work.
- A portfolio demonstrating advanced craft in typography, hierarchy, composition, color, and information design, including work for highly constrained or information-dense formats.
- Demonstrated experience creating and evolving scalable visual systems, templates, standards, and shared tools that support consistent execution across products and contributors.
- The ability to lead complex or ambiguous design challenges, translate creative direction into practical solutions, and influence decisions through clear design rationale and constructive collaboration.
- Experience partnering across creative, product, game design, and production disciplines, while providing mentorship, critique, or craft guidance to other designers.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and strong working knowledge of print production, packaging, file preparation, and template-based design.
Location
All employees of Fanatics TCG are expected to be onsite in our Seattle office five days per week.
Ensure your Fanatics job offer is legitimate and don't fall victim to fraud. Fanatics never seeks payment from job applicants. Feel free to ask your recruiter for a phone call or other type of communication for interview, and ensure your communication is coming from a Fanatics email address (including @collectfanatics.com). For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at www.fanaticsinc.com/careers.
By submitting your application, you agree to our terms of service and acknowledge you have read our Candidate Privacy Policy.
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Match your degree to the role
TN visa approval for Principal Designer roles turns on whether your degree field directly maps to the job duties. A degree in industrial design, architecture, or engineering supports the petition far more cleanly than a general arts credential.
Target companies with established design teams
Employers with structured in-house design organizations are more familiar with TN documentation requirements than startups hiring their first designer. Look for postings that list a dedicated design leadership function rather than a hybrid creative role.
Clarify the specialty occupation case before accepting
Principal Designer titles sometimes blend creative direction with general management. Confirm with your employer that the offer letter frames the role around specialized design expertise, not broad team leadership, since TN requires a direct tie between the degree and the duties.
Use Migrate Mate to find verified sponsoring employers
Search Principal Designer openings on Migrate Mate to filter for employers with recent visa filings and experience sponsoring work visas. This cuts down the time spent approaching companies that lack visa sponsorship familiarity or internal HR processes to support the application.
Prepare a Canadian port-of-entry TN packet
Canadian citizens can request TN status directly at a land border or pre-clearance airport. Bring your signed offer letter, degree transcripts, and a one-page role summary explaining how the position qualifies under an accepted USMCA professional category.
Understand the Mexican consular timeline before signing
Mexican nationals must schedule a U.S. consular appointment, which adds weeks to the start date. Negotiate your offer start date with this window in mind and confirm the employer can hold the role during consular processing before you accept.
Principal Designer TN Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Principal Designer role qualify for TN visa status?
Principal Designer can qualify under the TN Engineer or Scientific Technician categories if the position requires a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as industrial design, architecture, or engineering. The role's duties must demonstrate specialized expertise tied to that credential. Generalist or purely managerial design roles are harder to support under TN without a clear degree nexus.
How does TN compare to H-1B for Principal Designer positions?
TN has no annual lottery, no cap for Canadian citizens, and approvals for Canadians can happen at a port of entry on the same day. H-1B visa requires entering a randomized lottery each spring with no guarantee of selection. For a qualified Canadian or Mexican Principal Designer, TN is a faster and more predictable path than waiting for an H-1B lottery outcome.
Where can I find Principal Designer jobs that offer TN visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lists Principal Designer openings filtered by employers with TN and work visa sponsorship history. Searching there surfaces companies that already understand the TN filing process, which reduces back-and-forth with HR teams unfamiliar with USMCA professional categories.
Can my employer file the TN petition on my behalf, or do I handle it?
For Canadian citizens entering at a port of entry, you present the TN documentation directly to a CBP officer and your employer does not file a petition with USCIS in advance. Mexican nationals require a consular visa application where the employer provides a supporting offer letter and documentation, but USCIS is not involved in the initial approval.
What happens to my TN status if my Principal Designer role changes significantly?
If your duties shift substantially, such as moving from hands-on design work into a primarily executive or general management role, your existing TN may no longer cover the position. You and your employer should reassess whether the revised role still meets the specialty occupation and degree nexus requirements, and file an amended TN if the job description has materially changed.