Head of Creative

2 Months ago • 12 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

The Head of Creative leads the creative vision and execution across Aspyr's portfolio, encompassing game design, art direction, and narrative. This role ensures products reflect a cohesive vision aligned with business objectives. Responsibilities include leading multidisciplinary creative teams, establishing creative standards, partnering with other leaders, guiding concept development, working with licensors, and ensuring player-centric design. The ideal candidate will attract, develop, and retain top creative talent, and represent Aspyr's creative philosophy. They will need to ensure every product reflects a strong, cohesive vision that resonates with players and supports Aspyr’s business objectives. The Head of Creative will collaborate closely with executive leadership, product, production, and development teams, as well as external licensors and partners.
Must have:
  • Define and champion creative vision for Aspyr's games.
  • Lead multidisciplinary creative teams.
  • Establish and uphold creative standards.
  • Partner with leaders to balance creative ambition.
  • Guide concept development and presentations.
  • Work with external licensors.
  • Ensure player-centric thinking in design.
  • Attract, develop, and retain top creative talent.
  • Represent creative philosophy in discussions.

Job Details

**Please note that all positions posted for Aspyr Media, Inc. are in-person/in-office only; remote positions are not available.**

 

Aspyr Media, Inc. is an independent, full-service developer and publisher for the industry's leading games. Over the last 25 years, Aspyr has helped nearly 200 games reach their next level across all platforms and beyond expectations. 

Founded in 1996, Aspyr Media, Inc. got its start in Austin, TX by bringing the biggest PC gaming franchises such as Call of Duty, Sid Meier’s Civilization and Star Wars to Mac.  Today, Aspyr is a video game publishing and development partner focused on maximizing the potential of games.  We find the world's best games and connect them to new audiences, on all platforms.

Responsibilities:

The Head of Creative is responsible for leading the vision, quality, and execution of all creative elements across Aspyr’s portfolio. This includes ownership of game design, art direction, narrative, and player experience. As the senior creative leader, this role ensures that every product reflects a strong, cohesive vision that resonates with players and supports Aspyr’s business objectives. The Head of Creative will collaborate closely with executive leadership, product, production, and development teams, as well as external licensors and partners.

Essential Functions:

  • Define and champion the creative vision for Aspyr’s games, ensuring alignment with company strategy, market expectations, and player engagement goals
  • Lead multidisciplinary creative teams including game design, narrative, and visual development, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation
  • Establish and uphold creative standards and processes that ensure consistency, quality, and clarity of vision across all titles
  • Partner with Product, Production, and Engineering leaders to balance creative ambition with schedule, budget, and resource constraints
  • Guide concept development, IP pitch materials, and greenlight presentations with strong storytelling and visual impact
  • Work directly with external licensors to maintain brand integrity and push creative boundaries within existing IP frameworks
  • Ensure player-centric thinking is embedded in design, art, and narrative decisions throughout the game lifecycle
  • Attract, develop, and retain top creative talent across disciplines
  • Represent Aspyr’s creative philosophy and vision in internal leadership discussions and external partner communications

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Game Design, Fine Arts, Creative Writing, or a related field
  • 12 + years of experience in creative leadership roles in the video game industry
  • Proven track record as a Creative Director, Art Director, Narrative Director, or similar senior role on shipped titles
  • Deep expertise in at least one core creative discipline (game design, art, or narrative) with working knowledge across others
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional creative teams and build cohesive, player-focused experiences
  • Experience working with licensed IPs and navigating approvals with major licensors
  • Strong presentation and communication skills with the ability to inspire teams and influence stakeholders
  • Experience shipping titles across multiple platforms including console and PC
  • Comfortable working in both hands-on and high-level strategic capacities
  • Passion for storytelling, visual worldbuilding, and immersive gameplay experiences

Aspyr is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Aspyr are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Aspyr will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Aspyr encourages applicants of all ages.

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