Head of Creative Studio (Marketing)
supercell
Job Summary
Supercell is seeking a Head of Creative Studio to lead and grow an in-house marketing creative team. This role involves inspiring marketing artists, editors, designers, and producers to create effective and surprising marketing content for Supercell's games. The Head of Creative Studio will be responsible for raising the creative bar, ensuring fast and collaborative workflows, and working with internal teams and external partners to deliver world-class marketing that resonates with players globally.
Must Have
- Lead and grow a multidisciplinary creative organization (UA & gameplay capture, visual design, animation, art direction, production).
- Define creative direction for games with marketing leadership.
- Build conditions for great creativity with clear priorities and tools.
- Collaborate with various marketing and game teams globally.
- Expand studio impact through external partners.
- Connect creative ambition, strategic intent, and player insight.
- Cultivate a culture of trust, curiosity, and creative excellence.
- Proven creative leadership, measuring success by others' greatness.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary creative teams.
- Ability to blend storytelling, craft, audience insight, and performance thinking.
- Seamlessly move between vision and execution.
- Understanding of mobile games, digital culture, and player communities.
- Collaborative, humble, and insight-driven approach.
Perks & Benefits
- Compensation and benefits
- Supportive work environment
- Resources to succeed
- Fun work culture
- Relocation support
Job Description
At Supercell, we believe that great marketing starts with great creative – ideas that spark emotion, make players smile, and feel true to our games.
We’re looking for a Head of Creative Studio to build and grow our in-house marketing creative team: a small, passionate group of marketing artists, editors, designers, and producers who craft the stories the world sees beyond our games.
You’ll inspire this team to do their best work – creating beautiful, effective, and surprising marketing that celebrates our players and our worlds. We want a nimble, high-quality, high-velocity creative setup that empowers talented people, removes unnecessary layers, and lets great ideas come to life quickly.
This role is about raising the creative bar while keeping things fast, collaborative, and efficient – working seamlessly with both internal talent and external partners to help our game teams and central marketing deliver amazing, world-class work.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead and grow a multidisciplinary creative organization across UA & gameplay capture, visual design and animation, art direction, and production – empowering teams to deliver bold, high-quality work that elevates our games.
- Work closely with game teams and marketing leadership to define how our games show up creatively, ensuring storytelling across platforms remains distinct, resonant, and faithful to each game’s identity.
- Partner with production to build the conditions for great creativity, ensuring teams have clear priorities, the right tools, and a workflow that supports experimentation without unnecessary complexity.
- Collaborate deeply with game marketing, UA, community, partnerships, international marketing, comms, and brand to ensure creative aligns with strategic goals, cultural context, and performance needs globally.
- Expand the studio’s impact through exceptional external partners – cultivating a roster of agencies, directors, animators, and specialists who complement and enhance our in-house capabilities.
- Partner with game and marketing leads to connect creative ambition, strategic intent, and player insight – aligning on objectives while uncovering opportunities that spark strong, culturally relevant, and commercially meaningful creative idea
- Build and nurture a culture of trust, curiosity, and creative excellence, where people feel safe to explore ideas and take risks.
What You Have
- You’re a creative leader who measures success by the greatness of others – cultivating an environment where ideas flow freely, egos stay low, and creativity thrives through trust and shared ownership.
- You’ve led multidisciplinary creative teams and know how to blend storytelling, craft, audience insight, and performance thinking into work that truly resonates.
- You move seamlessly between vision and execution – shaping big creative directions while also rolling up your sleeves to solve problems, give thoughtful feedback, and unblock the day-to-day.
- You understand mobile games, digital culture, and player communities, and you’re always seeking the emotional connection that makes people care about our worlds.
- You’re collaborative, humble, and insight-driven, working hand-in-hand with creative, marketing, and game teams and using data as inspiration to help ideas grow, not limit them