Marketing Artist

Hutch; Greater London; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4-Day Work Week (4 days)

Flexible working hours

Remote working 2 days per week

Excellent salary

Private health care

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Mental health initiatives

Learning and progression support

Free snacks and drinks

Social events and game launch parties

Job summary

Hutch in London is seeking a Marketing Artist to join our Creative Services team. You will design and produce video and static marketing content across our mobile game portfolio, collaborating with Game Dev and Performance Marketing to drive engaging campaigns.

You are a self-motivated generalist with a passion for mobile frees-to-play marketing, able to translate strategy into visuals, and to communicate across disciplines while managing multiple projects.

Qualifications

• Creativity and openness to new ideas.
• Ability to distill marketing pillars into compelling visuals.
• Experience producing both video and static marketing content.
• Strong understanding of social platforms and ad formats.
• Comfort collaborating across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Create engaging marketing creatives for social media and UA campaigns.
• Convert marketing initiatives into high-quality consumer visuals.
• Keep up with emerging creative trends across digital platforms.
• Work within a small embedded team to ideate campaigns.
• Iterate on ads to optimise performance and effectiveness.

Skills

Open and creative

Clear visual communication

Translate strategy into visuals

Motion graphics experience

Teamwork & communication

Social media marketing understanding

Tools

After Effects

Premiere Pro

Photoshop

Illustrator

Job description

Marketing Artist | Marketing | London | Permanent

We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in: Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and join the mission!

Marketing Artist

Hutch is seeking an experienced multidisciplinary Marketing Artist to work within our growing Creative Services Team. We work closely with our Game Dev and Performance Marketing teams to promote and showcase our games. We believe in small autonomous teams that have a lot of responsibility. As such our Marketing Artists are true generalists and this role will give you the opportunity to focus on concepting, designing and creating video and static promotional content across our growing portfolio of games.

We are looking for a self-motivated, pragmatic Marketing Artist who thrives on the ability to be creative. You will have a passion to work in the mobile free to play space and be eager to immerse yourself in the marketable positioning of each game. This role requires collaboration across multiple teams and the ideal candidate will be comfortable facilitating conversations across disciplines as well as sharing new ideas and concepts with the team.

Responsibilities

• Create engaging and impactful marketing creatives (video and static) for social media/UA purposes
• Transfer key marketing initiatives into high quality consumer facing visuals
• Keeping abreast of emerging creative trends across digital platforms
• Work as part of an embedded team of 2-3 to come up with creative marketing ideas
• Iterate on new and previous ads to create eye catching content to optimise performance
• Independently research and innovate on new ideas for creatives

Requirements

• Open and creative
• Able to communicate complex ideas & visual hierarchy in simple, visually appealing ways
• Ability to create visually appealing creatives based on marketing pillars and strategy
• Excellent knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, particularly. After Effects, Premier Pro, Photoshop & Illustrator
• Experience & passion for creating both motion graphics & video content
• Good communication skills and a teamwork oriented attitude
• Exceptional eye for composition, colour & graphic design skillsUnderstanding of social media, marketing and emerging trends, working and designing to platform technical specifications
• Confident and happy to work across multiple projects if & when required
• Able to work autonomously when required

Bonus Points

• Experience capturing gameplay in Unity Engine
• Knowledge of 3D software such as Maya & Blender
• Experience of working with outsourcing teams
• Experience with animation 2D, 3D
• Ability to render high quality static sizzle images
• Prior experience within the game industry or in a video game studio
• An understanding/awareness of user acquisition and app store optimization in the mobile games space
• Knowledge in basic sound design/editing
• A passion for video games
• We make games with cars in. If you love cars that’s a bonus (but not a requirement!)

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch in central London. We have additional offices in Dundee and Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with;

• Hutch is now a 4-Day Work Week company*
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working 2 days per week
• Excellent salary
• Private health care
• Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
• Access to mental health initiatives such as private mental health coaching
• Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
• Free snacks and drinks
• Social events, game launch parties, Thursday night drinks and much more

*This will mean that Hutch employees will work a maximum of 4 days per week (30 hours/week) Mon-Thurs, with zero reductions in pay (compared to a 5 day working week).

Our Values

• Transparent - Being transparent and open helps us to be trusted and fosters integrity.
• Humble - When we are humble we show humility, we let go of egos and we are self-aware.
• Collaborative - We value teamwork, the spirit of collaboration and the results of working together.
• Driven - We have drive and ambition and always push for the best results rather than settling.
• Adaptable - Demonstrating the ability to adapt ultimately helps us grow and helps us thrive in different situations

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/