Art Director & Lead Graphic Designer - Board Games

Vance Airscoop; Plymouth (MN); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance reimbursements

Nice employee healthcare plan

Weekly work-from-home day

Paid holidays

Negotiable personal time off

401k program

Crowdfunding bonuses

Job summary

Chip Theory Games in Plymouth, Minnesota, is seeking a full-time Art Director to oversee our tabletop game art program. You will lead staff artists, hire freelance talent, and ensure a high visual standard across boxes, cards, dice, and rulebooks.

You will define briefs, manage art assets, and coordinate with marketing and design to maintain brand consistency while meeting deadlines and budgets. The role requires creative vision, excellent communication, and a proven ability to deliver polished,

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years in game illustration and art direction.
• Proven ability to brief, direct, and review artists.
• Strong communication of art direction in sketches and discussions.
• Experience managing budgets and contracts.

Responsibilities

• Manage our art pipeline by gathering requirements, crafting briefs, making assignments, negotiating contracts, managing budgets, corresponding with artists, collecting and collating feedback across departments, directing revisions, verifying adherence to specs, revising and touching up turnovers, and delivering layout-ready assets to the graphic design and marketing teams.
• Define and administer flexible and functional processes for receiving, organizing, managing, and storing sketches and final art, including both 2D and 3D assets.
• Collaborate to define a standard of excellence for art, and maintain it across the Chip Theory Games brand in daily practice.
• Create and iterate graphic designs for boxes, playing cards, reference sheets, poker-style chips, dice, rulebooks, and other components for tabletop games.
• Lead, manage, and hold accountable staff artists; identify and engage the services of freelance artists, including contract administration.
• Other tasks as assigned.

Skills

Illustration leadership

Art direction

Hiring artists

Task management

Team collaboration

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Chip Theory Games in Plymouth, Minnesota, is seeking a full-time Art Director to oversee our tabletop game art program. You will lead staff artists, hire freelance talent, and ensure a high visual standard across boxes, cards, dice, and rulebooks.

You will define briefs, manage art assets, and coordinate with marketing and design to maintain brand consistency while meeting deadlines and budgets. The role requires creative vision, excellent communication, and a proven ability to deliver polished,