Senior Visual Designer — Games & Platform Art Lead

Yahoo Holdings Inc.; Omaha (NE); Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work

Healthcare benefits

Job summary

Yahoo Holdings Inc. is seeking a Senior Visual Designer to create and deliver visual assets powering discovery, marketing, and platform experiences across Yahoo Games.

You will own visual design and illustration for assets outside the game itself, spanning promotional imagery, game websites, avatars, streaks, leaderboards, and related visuals. This hands-on role collaborates with Product Design, Product Management, and the Lead Visual Designer to ensure a cohesive visual presence across Yahoo

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional experience as an illustrator, visual designer, or similar role in or around the games industry.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating illustration, visual design, and marketing assets for games or entertainment.
• Proficiency with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and motion design tools.
• Experience incorporating AI-assisted tools into creative workflows for rapid concepting and asset iteration.
• Motion design skills to create engaging visuals across digital platforms.
• Ability to create visuals that market games, apps, or entertainment products.
• Familiarity with asset optimization for web and digital platforms.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, and design.
• Deep interest in games and a strong point of view on polished, approachable visuals.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and feedback skills.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality illustrations, promotional images, and visual assets that support game discovery across Yahoo Games platform and marketing channels.
• Design and produce supporting game assets such as streak illustrations, avatars, leaderboard visuals, and other platform-level elements.
• Own the visual design and illustration needs for Yahoo Games web presence, including game websites and platform marketing materials.
• Explore and experiment with AI-assisted tools to support rapid concepting, visual exploration, and early-stage asset creation.
• Leverage AI to accelerate prototyping and generate visual variations, helping the team quickly test different stylistic directions.
• Evaluate emerging AI tools that can improve creative workflows and asset production efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with Product Design, Product Management, and the Lead Visual Designer to ensure visual consistency and quality across the Yahoo Games ecosystem.
• Apply motion design skills to bring platform and marketing visuals to life, creating excitement and guiding the player's eye to the right places.
• Support the Lead Visual Designer on game projects as needed - for example, contributing icons, illustrations, and supporting assets when additional capacity is required.
• Ensure assets are optimized for performance across desktop and mobile web platforms.

Skills

Illustration

Visual design

Motion design

AI tools in workflows

Cross-functional collaboration

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Tools

After Effects

Figma

Job description

Yahoo Holdings Inc. is seeking a Senior Visual Designer to create and deliver visual assets powering discovery, marketing, and platform experiences across Yahoo Games.

You will own visual design and illustration for assets outside the game itself, spanning promotional imagery, game websites, avatars, streaks, leaderboards, and related visuals. This hands-on role collaborates with Product Design, Product Management, and the Lead Visual Designer to ensure a cohesive visual presence across Yahoo