Marketing Illustrator: Craft Legendary Game Art & Campaigns

Supercell; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 54,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Supercell, a Helsinki-based games company with offices worldwide, seeks a Marketing Illustrator for its Creative Studio. You will transform characters and worlds into bold marketing art, creating key art, character poses, and campaign assets for global audiences.

You’ll shape visual storytelling across animation, video, and other formats, collaborating closely with game teams, marketers, and producers while owning the illustration craft from concept to production-ready assets.

Qualifications

• Five to ten years of experience in a similar role, setting artistic direction and creating hands-on work for marketing, games, or other character-driven entertainment.
• Standout portfolio of character-led illustration and visual storytelling.
• Advanced digital illustration skills and strong fundamentals in composition, anatomy, perspective, lighting, and color.
• Expertise in stylized character design, expressions, and posing across playful, graphic, and cinematic styles.
• Ability to originate strong ideas, explain creative choices, and own the work from a loose brief to a finished asset.
• Experience communicating creative direction and providing clear, actionable feedback to internal teams and external partners, with hands-on guidance such as draw-overs and paint-overs.
• Low-ego, collaborative approach, excellent attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities independently.
• Genuine interest in games, animations, and related pop culture communities.
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Availability to travel internationally several times a year.
• Practical knowledge of 2D and 3D animation pipelines is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Create high-impact illustrations for marketing campaigns, social channels, app stores, game events, and other player-facing moments.
• Develop visual concepts that turn game characters and worlds into memorable stories while preserving what makes each game distinctive.
• Own the illustration process from initial thumbnails, sketches, and concept art through polished key art and production-ready assets; provide draw-overs and paint-overs to align teams.
• Work with designers, motion artists, marketers, creative producers and game teams to turn briefs into clear creative work.
• Help select and manage external illustrators, agencies, studios, and production partners; brief and guide with clear feedback while maintaining high quality.
• Adapt creative assets across channels and formats without losing character, emotion, or core hook.
• Ensure our work is world-class, authentic to game worlds, and resonates with players for decades.

Skills

Illustration skills

Character design

Visual storytelling

English proficiency

Art direction

Feedback capability

Attention to detail

Collaboration

Travel readiness

Animation pipelines

Tools

Industry-standard tools

Job description

Supercell, a Helsinki-based games company with offices worldwide, seeks a Marketing Illustrator for its Creative Studio. You will transform characters and worlds into bold marketing art, creating key art, character poses, and campaign assets for global audiences.

You’ll shape visual storytelling across animation, video, and other formats, collaborating closely with game teams, marketers, and producers while owning the illustration craft from concept to production-ready assets.