Principal Graphic Designer - TCG

Fanatics; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics TCG in Seattle is seeking a Principal Graphic Designer to lead as a senior IC and craft leader for trading card game franchises. You will define scalable visual design systems, guide card-frame architecture, typography, color, and branding across properties, while hands-on crafting and mentoring teammates.

Working with Creative, Game Design, Product Development, and Production, you will balance creative ambition with production constraints, ensure readability and gameplay clarity, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional graphic design experience or equivalent ownership of complex brand, identity, or design-system work.
• Portfolio showing advanced craft in typography, hierarchy, composition, color, and information design, including dense formats.
• Experience creating and evolving scalable visual systems, templates, standards, and shared tools for consistent execution.

Responsibilities

• Define and steward the visual design language for Fanatics TCG franchises with distinctive, scalable identity.
• Lead the development and evolution of card-frame systems, typography, color, and information hierarchy.
• Develop and maintain franchise identity systems—logos, color systems, typography, and brand standards.

Skills

Brand systems

Typography

Information design

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.

About the Company

Fanatics Collectibles is a new company operating at the intersection of collectibles, culture, and technology. Backed by world-class investors, operators, and sports & entertainment partners, we are building the global leader in next-generation collectibles. As part of the broader Fanatics ecosystem, we leverage a digital sports platform that spans over 900 sports properties and engages more than 81 million fans. Together, we are reimagining every part of the collectibles experience for fans, partners, and creators.

About the Team

Fanatics TCG is a new Seattle-based trading card game studio within the Fanatics Collectibles family, founded by industry veterans with a long-term mandate: to build enduring franchises that live across tabletop, digital, community, and culture. We’re looking for the most skilled and passionate talent in the games industry and beyond to help us create the best trading card games in the world.

Who We’re Looking For

Fanatics TCG is seeking a Principal Graphic Designer to serve as a senior individual contributor and studio-level craft leader. In this role, you will define and steward the graphic design systems that shape our trading card game franchises, translating creative direction and gameplay needs into distinctive, scalable, and production-ready solutions.

Your work will span franchise identity, card-frame architecture, typography, iconography, color systems, templates, packaging, and marketing materials. You will remain actively involved in design execution while also establishing the principles, standards, and tools that enable other designers and cross-functional partners to create consistent, high-quality work.

In close partnership with the Creative Director, Art Directors, Game Design, Product Development, and Production teams, you will lead the studio’s most complex graphic design challenges, influence high-impact visual decisions, and elevate design quality through hands‑on work, thoughtful critique, and mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Define and steward the visual design language for Fanatics TCG franchises, ensuring each property has a distinctive, recognizable, and scalable identity.
• Lead the development and ongoing evolution of card-frame systems, including frame architecture, information hierarchy, typography, iconography, color, and the visual grammar used to communicate gameplay information.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive franchise identity systems, including logos, color systems, typography, graphic elements, and brand standards.
• Translate creative concepts into documented design systems, templates, shared libraries, and production tools that can be applied consistently across cards, packaging, marketing materials, and related brand touchpoints.
• Serve as the hands‑on design lead for high-impact, highly complex, or ambiguous initiatives, guiding work from early exploration and concept development through production‑ready execution.
• Partner with Game Design to ensure graphic systems support readability, information hierarchy, and gameplay comprehension without compromising the distinct character of each franchise.
• Collaborate with Creative, Product Development, and Production partners to balance creative ambition with product requirements, print capabilities, manufacturing constraints, schedules, and business objectives.
• Establish and uphold graphic design quality standards across the product line, reviewing key work and identifying solutions when designs do not meet established creative, functional, or production requirements.
• Act as a trusted design authority by clearly articulating design rationale, evaluating creative tradeoffs, and building alignment among creative and non‑creative stakeholders.
• Provide actionable critique, mentorship, and technical guidance to other designers, helping the team apply shared standards while continuing to develop their individual craft.
• Identify recurring design, workflow, and production challenges and lead improvements to templates, documentation, review practices, asset management, and cross‑functional handoffs.
• Maintain organized, accurate, and accessible design files, standards, and shared assets that support efficient collaboration and long‑term franchise development.

Qualifications & Experience

• 8 or more years of professional graphic design experience, or equivalent experience demonstrating ownership of complex brand, identity, or design-system work.
• A portfolio demonstrating advanced craft in typography, hierarchy, composition, color, and information design, including work for highly constrained or information-dense formats.
• Demonstrated experience creating and evolving scalable visual systems, templates, standards, and shared tools that support consistent execution across products and contributors.
• The ability to lead complex or ambiguous design challenges, translate creative direction into practical solutions, and influence decisions through clear design rationale and constructive collaboration.
• Experience partnering across creative, product, game design, and production disciplines, while providing mentorship, critique, or craft guidance to other designers.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and strong working knowledge of print production, packaging, file preparation, and template-based design.

Location

All employees of Fanatics TCG are expected to be onsite in our Seattle office five days per week.

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