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Chief Design Officer
Anime Universe, INC
United States
Remote
USD 225,000 - 250,000
Full time
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Job summary
Anime Universe, INC is seeking a Chief Design Officer to lead their Full-Spectrum Meta Design Team. This pivotal role involves defining the design language across multiple platforms and managing a talented team to elevate the company’s creative vision, with a focus on user experience and brand identity. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in design leadership and a proven track record in the tech industry.
Qualifications
- 10+ years leading creative teams across UI/UX, product, and brand design.
- Experience owning design at a strategic level for a product or platform.
- Strong understanding of design tooling.
- Prior experience managing distributed design teams and async workflows.
Responsibilities
- Define and oversee holistic design vision and execution pipeline.
- Associate with C-level in strategic decisions and branding.
- Architect cross-functional collaboration between design and product teams.
- Recruit and guide a design team of 25-30 professionals.
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– Equity Partner –
Location: Remote
Jurisdiction: Global
Minimum Commitment: 20 hours per week
Department: TechCore – Product Team - Design, Creative Technology, Visual Storytelling
Reports To: CPO
This is not a job. It's a Stake.
What You Put In Is What You Get Out
This is not a job. This is a founding-level creative command role at the core of Anime Universe’s future.
As Chief Design Officer, you are the creative spine of the entire company. From interface to identity, from cinematic moments to system-level UI, you orchestrate the multi-layered design language that defines the user’s entire emotional, functional, and spatial experience.
Minimum commitment: 20 hours/week. If that isn’t feasible, this isn’t your seat.
This is an equity partner role. That means:
- No upfront cash compensation
- Equity (shares) at strategic partner level (vesting standard)
- Future token-based rewards (pending legal review)
- Salary activates with revenue-based milestones
Let’s Be Absolutely Clear
This is not a brand management gig.
This is not a UX leadership role tucked under product.
You are the architect of our design mindset—a system-builder, not a decorator.
If you can see beyond features into form, narrative, identity, flow, emotion—and connect all of it into living design ecosystems—then you’re home.
Overview
We’re recruiting a Chief Design Officer to lead the formation and growth of our Full-Spectrum Meta Design Team.
This team spans across:
- Product UI/UX
- Visual & Graphic Design
- Motion & Animation
- Hybrid Interactive Systems
You will work directly with the CEO, CPO, and CTO to create a scalable creative system that aligns deeply with our product layers (new proprietary UI system, runtime UI, narrative UI), lore, technical infrastructure, and platform velocity. Your role is not only executional—it’s architectural.
You’ll recruit, mentor, and guide a team of 25–30 of the sharpest design thinkers in the world.
What You’ll Own
- Define and maintain Anime Universe’s holistic design vision, culture, and execution pipeline
- Architect cross-functional collaboration between design, engineering, product, and narrative
- Establish design standards, design systems, design tokens, and pattern libraries
- Recruit, coach, and retain a team of elite designers, motion artists, UX researchers, and illustrators
- Oversee execution of UI/UX design across platform tools, player interfaces, studio tools, and narrative systems
- Direct all branding design, motion standards, visual storytelling, character-lore design, and product interfaces
- Represent the design org in strategic decisions at the C-level
- Drive design performance reviews, async design sprints, and operational health of the team
What We’re Looking For
- 10+ years leading creative teams across UI/UX, product, and brand design
- Experience owning design at a strategic level for a product, platform, or interactive experience
- Deep systems thinker who understands both grid-level UI and cinematic-level motion
- Prior experience managing distributed design teams and async creative workflows
- Sharp visual taste—can direct anime, manga, digital, or futuristic aesthetics with authority
- Strong understanding of design tooling: Figma, Framer, Adobe CC, Lottie, Spline, Unity UI, etc.
- Bonus: experience designing in narrative, anime IP, or large-scale creative platforms
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You must command end-to-end mastery of both UI and UX — at the strategic, system, and brand levels.
We need a ground-up creator of design systems who can reason, scale, and synthesize across:
- Creative tools and runtime editors
- Social, marketplace, and modular platform layers
- Game and XR interfaces
You don’t have to be the supreme expert in all of them, but you must deeply “get it” in at least one domain you love—and design interfaces that makes people feel good (joy, flow, delight), not just “usable” screens.
Bring a portfolio or site that shows how you think:
- System blueprints (tokens, grids, motion rules).
Make it impossible to doubt your depth. Clearly demonstrate your level of skills, depth of understanding and expertise. Something that shows how you come up with your ideas, work, solve problems, design and what you can do.
You’ll partner daily with Engineering, Product, Research, and every C-level peer. As CDO you set the culture of design intelligence—the blueprint-and-build layer that steers the entire AU product future.
If you architect emotion, reason, and scale into every pixel—and you relish turning blank space into living ecosystems—this is your arena.
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Compensation
Equity (Shares): Founding partner-level equity
Token-Based Rewards: Future layer pending legal compliance
Future Salary: Activates with key revenue triggers
Remote First: Fully distributed team; async-native structure
You’ll have full authorship over the creative intelligence of Anime Universe. You’ll shape how design is seen, felt, navigated, and remembered—through systems that scale beyond screens into lore, identity, and immersive presence.
If you’ve been waiting to create something impossible and inevitable, this is your moment.
How to Apply
Send your portfolio and short note outlining your design leadership philosophy.
Best regards,
ANIME UNIVERSE RECRUITMENT TEAM
- Seniority levelExecutive
- Employment typeOther
- Job functionDesign, Engineering, and Product Management
- IndustriesIT System Custom Software Development, Technology, Information and Media, and Entertainment Providers
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