Associate Manager, Licensing & Creative (Contract)

Wizards of the Coast seeks a process-driven, detail-oriented Associate Manager (Contract) to expand the Magic: The Gathering brand. This role involves guiding art assets, information, and partner feedback through the creative development pipeline, from concept to final approval, ensuring success across publishing, promotions, and consumer products. As part of the Emerging Business team, you will collaborate with external licensees and internal teams, curating visual references, delivering feedback, and continuously improving resource organization to keep projects moving seamlessly.

Must Have

• Ensure projects are set up for success from the start
• Work with partners to define targets
• Equip partners with critical assets and direction
• Lead product development process from conceptual designs through approvals
• Act as a steward of creative translation of Magic across efforts
• Ensure appropriate visual consistency, integrity, design, and quality
• Balance Franchise direction with unique project needs
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to update and improve resources and tools
• Make resources more organized, intuitive, and accessible
• Tag assets
• Contribute as a thought leader for systems and processes
• Fluency in MediaBox, CSP, and digital asset management systems
• Two to three years of demonstrated ability in related fields

Good to Have

• Direct experience in developing consumer products and using related tools
• Existing knowledge of Magic: The Gathering
• Love of pop culture and up to speed with design and cultural trends

Perks & Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Health savings accounts
• Employee assistance program
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan
• Paid Sick Leave (variable based on location)
• Paid Time Off
• Holiday Pay

At Wizards of the Coast, we connect people around the world through play and imagination. From our genre-defining games like Magic: The Gathering® and Dungeons & Dragons® to our growing multiverse, we continue to innovate and build new ways to foster friendship and connection. That’s where you come in!

Are you a process-driven, detail-oriented product development professional with a passion for Magic: The Gathering? Would you be thrilled to help expand this iconic brand into new channels, formats, and audiences?

We’re looking for a confident and resourceful Associate Manager (Contract) to guide art assets, information, and partner feedback through our creative development pipeline. From concept to final approval, you’ll play a pivotal role in driving success across publishing, promotions, and consumer products.

As part of the Emerging Business team, you’ll collaborate with external licensees, internal team members, and fellow creatives and strategists. Your responsibilities will include curating and distributing visual references, delivering thoughtful feedback, and continuously improving resource organization to keep projects moving seamlessly.

What You'll Do

This role ensures that each project is set up for success from the very start, working with partners to define targets and equipping them with critical assets and direction. The bulk of your time will be spent leading the product development process from conceptual designs through approvals. All manner of licensed products, promotions and entertainment projects will be impacted by this role. Hardlines, softlines, packaging, publishing, marketing collateral, are all examples.

Just as importantly, you will act as a steward of the creative translation of Magic across these efforts, ensuring appropriate visual consistency, integrity, design, and quality. To that end, you'll use your keen judgment and deep knowledge to balance Franchise direction with the unique needs of each new project.

Aside from the critical path responsibilities of project trafficking, feedback, and approvals, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to update and ever-improve the resources and tools that Wizards relies on for scalability. We seek a partner who is passionate in their desire to make resources more organized, intuitive, and accessible than they were the week before. Everything from tagging assets to contributing as a thought leader for entire systems and processes are in bounds for this role!

What You'll Bring

• A passion for working collaboratively, a love of delivering quality offerings to an an audience, and a healthy relationship with feedback.
• Curiosity and ingenuity to find or craft answers for new questions and needs presented by new efforts. We need a partner who is fully advised by our past but is devoted to the stewardship of our future!
• An inherent enjoyment for working in various tools to enable creative development. You will need to become fluent in MediaBox, CSP, and our digital asset management system.
• Equal parts eye-for-detail and ability to keep the larger goals in mind.
• Outstanding communication, teamwork, and relationship-building skills.
• Two to three years of demonstrated ability in related fields. This could be creative development, art direction, coordinating creative workflows, asset management, publishing, and/or consumer products.
• Direct experience in developing consumer products and using related tools will be a big plus.
• A love of pop culture and is up to speed with design and cultural trends,
• Lastly, existing knowledge of Magic: The Gathering will be invaluable for this role.

Additional Details:

Please note that this is a temporary assignment providing services to Wizards through an external staffing agency. If you are selected for this assignment, you will be employed by Eastridge as a W2 employee and will not be an employee of Wizards.

• Employment Type: Contingent Worker
• Location: WA or Remote
• Duration: 12 months

Compensation Range, Currency USD:

• Starting Pay Range: $38.55/hour
• Pay Range End: $57.83/hour

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the hourly pay range for this role.

Eastridge offers US based Wizards temporary workers a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Health savings accounts
• Employee assistance program
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan
• Paid Sick Leave (variable based on location)
• Paid Time Off and Holiday Pay

We are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer

Wizards of the Coast is committed to equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment. We are committed to making all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, or any other legally protected status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process and need to request an accommodation, please contact your recruiter or coordinator.

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