Director, Creative Development

Blizzard Entertainment is looking for an exceptional individual with experience managing and leveraging franchises, leading myriad, simultaneous, and wide-ranging projects, and fostering a high-powered, diverse, and intensely creative team. This person will be responsible for leading and managing the creative development department and its component teams - publishing, licensed products, art services, and asset services.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the vice president of creative development to provide strategic, inspirational, and visionary leadership for the department.
• Work with the senior producer to ensure efficient operations within creative development.
• Ensure good communication and relations between creative development and all clients, whether external or internal to Blizzard Entertainment.
• Keep the vice president of creative development briefed on status, challenges, and planning.
• Manage and mentor the creative development team leads.
• Plan the department's yearly budget and provide ongoing maintenance and administration of budgetary concerns for the team.
• Work with team leads to create and execute the department's personnel plans.
• Participate and contribute in discussions that involve the expansion of business for creative development and the company at large.

Requirements:

• 5+ years experience managing and developing creative franchises
• 5+ years experience managing multidisciplinary teams of 15+ people
• Excellent leadership and communication skills
• A passion for games, books, comics, art, figures, etc.

Pluses:

• Experience in art creation - illustration, graphic design, etc.
• Experience in game development - computer or hobby
• Experience in writing or publishing
• Experience in asset management (art, lore, audio/visuals)
• Proficient knowledge of all of Blizzard Entertainment's intellectual properties

Please send a cover letter, resume, salary history, and writing samples (required) to resumes@blizzard.com

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