Marketing Artist contract NEW

Owlchemy Labs is seeking a highly skilled and creative Contract Marketing Artist to work with our dynamic marketing team. The Contract Marketing Artist will play a key role in creating visually compelling assets that support a wide range of marketing initiatives, from social media campaigns to website design, store pages, and event promotions. This position requires a versatile artist with strong graphic design expertise, a deep understanding of branding, and a passion for producing high-quality visual content that engages audiences and elevates our brand.

This is a twelve (12) month contract estimated to commence in late February/early March 2025.

Responsibilities

• Design and produce high-quality digital assets across various channels including but not limited to social media, website, store pages, blogs, event promotions and digital advertisements.
• Manage key assets for our digital store fronts across platforms including asset creation and implementation on store pages to support various game updates and launches.
• Work closely with our social media team to provide required content for social campaigns, social banners and trending content.
• Support our video content, including YouTube and Streaming, with updated assets including lower-thirds, stream overlays, and thumbnails.
• Contribute to the development of our website by providing the required assets. Having a basic understanding of SEO principles and how to design assets that are optimized for web performance. Working with external vendors on asset needs and providing design feedback.
• Partner with the Sr. Lead, Marketing & Communications to ensure all partner asset requests are fulfilled including key art requests, logos, original content and promotional materials.
• Support our sales and paid media campaigns by creating digital advertisements for various platforms.
• Ensure all digital assets are optimized for performance across multiple platforms and devices (e.g., file size, resolution, format)
• Maintain consistent branding and visual style across all materials, ensuring the company’s voice and identity are clearly reflected in every asset created.
• Balance multiple design projects with competing deadlines, maintaining a high standard of quality and meeting deadlines.

Requirements

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), with knowledge of web and mobile design principles. 

• Familiarity with video editing tools (Premiere Pro, After Effects) is a plus.
• Must have a great understanding and use of composition and color theory, and have adequate knowledge of graphic/visual/stylistic trends in games.
• Must have excellent communication, time management, relationship building, conflict management, and organizational skills.
• Must have the ability to give and receive constructive feedback.
• Should be able to multi-task and to adapt easily to change.

Required Education and Experience:

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Experience with Photoshop (or any equivalent 2D software)

Preferred Education and Experience:

• 3-5 years working in interactive media
• Experience working in small teams
• Experience with Unity or a similar game engine
• Experience with motion graphics or animation is a plus!
• Experience with After Effects (or any equivalent motion graphics software)
• Appreciation of puns (or at least the ability to groan at them)

Physical Requirements:

Contractors must be able to use virtual reality headsets but are not expected to own one.

Owlchemy Labs is an XR studio with a passion for polished, playful VR games and experiences.

Founded in 2010 and based out of Austin, TX, we believe that natural, spatial interactions make virtual reality the ultimate destination for new forms of gameplay and immersion. We love building experiences for everyone: oozing with style, absurdly funny, and with ground-breaking accessibility to bring more joy to more people.

Acquired by Google in 2017, Owlchemy continues to share its pioneering experiments and VR best practices through blog posts, white papers, and talks around the globe to improve VR for Everyone.