Executive Creative Director

The Executive Creative Director is a hands-on creative leadership role responsible for shaping and executing Exploding Kittens’ brand identity across games and new product lines. This position establishes creative vision, advances innovation, and partners across functions to maintain brand integrity while supporting commercial outcomes.

Creative Vision and Team Leadership

• Set the creative vision for each new product, guiding and inspiring product designers, illustrators, and game designers.
• Foster a high-performing team culture focused on experimentation, collaboration, and iterative delivery.
• Translate strategic direction into bold, original creative execution throughout the product lifecycle.

Innovation, Category Disruption, and Brand Voice

• Drive constant innovation and support games category disruption by tracking trends in design, humor, and entertainment.
• Own and evolve the company voice and brand identity across all creative deliverables.
• Refresh and evolve the brand while managing growth, maturity, and category expansion without losing core identity.

Workflow, Resourcing, and Scalable Creative Operations

• Establish creative team workflows that support lean, scrappy execution.
• Identify creative resource gaps and address them to improve and scale the creative process.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Advocate for the Creative Strategy and collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, Product Management, Production, and Sales.
• Ensure brand integrity and commercial viability at every stage of the process.

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio and proven creative leadership overseeing product development for high-growth CPG brands designed around consumer needs.
• Demonstrated ability to refresh and evolve brands through growth, maturity, and category expansion while protecting core identity.
• Deep understanding of consumer behavior and cultural trends, with experience adapting creative direction to different audience tastes and interests.
• Inspiring leader and exceptional communicator, comfortable in fast-paced, collaborative, iterative environments.
• 10+ years overseeing creative teams in leadership and people management roles.
• Based in Los Angeles, CA.

Location and Compensation

• Location: Los Angeles, CA (onsite)
• Salary: USD 180,000 - 220,000 per year