5+ years of professional experience as a game artist, visual designer, or similar role in the games industry.
Extensive experience working on casual games, ideally for desktop and mobile web platforms.
Strong portfolio demonstrating visual direction, game art, UI design, and production-ready assets.
Deep proficiency with Figma, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop.
Experience creating both static and animated assets.
Strong understanding of UI design principles and usability best practices.
Familiarity with asset optimization, performance considerations, and production pipelines.
Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, and design.
Experience working with external studios or contract artists.
Deep interest in casual games and a strong point of view on what makes game art feel polished, approachable, and fun.
Excellent communication, collaboration, and feedback skills.
Experience supporting live-ops games or content updates.
Familiarity with motion tools (e.g., After Effects, Spine, Lottie, Rive).
Experience creating promotional or marketing art for games.
Background contributing to or defining visual systems or style guides.
Benefits
Flexible schedule
Additional Information
Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.
Within Yahoo Games , our mission is to make games a natural extension of the daily Yahoo experience -easy to discover, fun to play, and rewarding to return to. We are reimagining Yahoo Games as a modern casual gaming destination with a strong point of view on quality, craft, and player experience.
A Lot About You
We are seeking a talented Lead Artist (Games) to establish, create, and evolve the visual identity for Yahoo Games first-party original games as well as provide feedback on third party games. In this role, you will own the visual direction across all 1P games-setting a cohesive look that aligns with the Yahoo brand while helping define a distinctive visual language for Yahoo Games.
This is a hands-on individual contributor role with leadership influence . You will create high-quality game art assets, guide external artists and partners, and collaborate closely with Game Design, Product Management, Product Design, Engineering, and Production to bring games to life. You will also partner with Marketing, Yahoo Design Studio, and Growth teams to support promotional art and campaigns that help players discover and engage with our games.
If you are a strong visual storyteller, a casual games enthusiast, and a taste-maker who cares deeply about craft and player experience, this role is for you.
Your Day at Yahoo
Own and define the visual direction for Yahoo Games first-party titles, establishing a distinctive visual identity that aligns with the Yahoo brand.
Create high-quality game art assets, including UI elements, environments, characters, icons, and animations.
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 across the game development pipeline.
Partner closely with Game Design, Product Management, and Product Design to shape the game experience from concept through launch.
Work closely with the Game Producer and Engineering team to ensure art assets integrate smoothly into builds and production pipelines.
Manage and guide contract artists and external partners, providing clear direction and maintaining a high bar for visual quality.
Ensure art assets are optimized for performance across desktop and mobile web platforms.
Support promotional and marketing art in collaboration with Marketing, Growth, and Yahoo Design Studio.
Contribute to playtests and reviews, providing feedback on visual clarity, usability, and overall player experience.
Provide visual feedback on third-party games and help maintain a consistent quality bar across the Yahoo Games platform.
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