Lead Designer, Creative, Games

Job Summary:
•    Work with external developer/licensee and internal team members to help plan and develop games from creative standpoint, ranging from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic and other Disney owned IP.
•    Work with developer/licensee of allocated game products to review, approve, create a design and/or provide feedback to all creative aspects.
•    Development of brand new characters (e.g. Disney Tsum Tsum, Twisted wonderland）

Responsibilities:
•    Provide high quality creative solutions to partners through understanding of product concept, business objectives, and appropriate storytelling
•    Provide suggestions to improve products of game based on personal imaginative faculty and research of benchmark products
•    Develop a new Disney IP with create imagination
•    Provide branding feedback based on corporate/brand policies for all in-games assets and Marketing materials (on-going self-education of Disney owned brand a must through films, books, comics, games, and merchandise)
•    Keep an eye out for new digital application creativity/technologies and make suggestions as required necessary

Requirement:
•    Preferably 3 years or more in the art direction for game/digital content industry. 
•    Ability to create/direct using creative tools (Adobe photoshop, illustrator at least.) 
•    Strong native communication skills in Japanese, with the ability to clearly articulate fine nuances of creative/product feedback. Preferably English speaking, oral & written English skills or those who do not have English rejection.

•    Ability to generate high quality design to communicate feedback in speedy, efficient manner
•    Personal wide field of view in art/subculture and sense of game products mechanics, preferably willingness to generate original game products concept pitches
•    Creative thinking, with a passion for delivering the best Disney products to our guests
•    Ability to work as part of a team and to jointly own successes & failures
•    Self-motivating, entrepreneurial spirit with ability to deal with ambiguous and fast-paced working environment, and to work through challenging, multiple deadlines
•    Strong team player with solid work ethic; willingness to learn and take on new tasks
•    Passion for learning about new creativity, technologies and consumer facing digital services