Sr. Creative Director, Brand Experience, Toys & Games
Job Description
Lead the creative vision for Hasbro’s toy and game brands, connecting brand strategy to standout experiences across consumer touchpoints.
Responsibilities
- Set the creative vision for the toys and board games portfolio; translate business, brand, and commercial strategies into creative platforms built to scale globally.
- Own brand creative strategy across Action, Fashion, Preschool, Nerf, Play-Doh, and Board Games, ensuring differentiated, culturally relevant brand expression.
- Lead the front-end of brand development, including brand creative strategy, creative direction, visual and verbal identity, brand guidelines, and creative toolkits.
- Build enduring creative systems that strengthen brand equity and provide flexibility to stay relevant across audiences and channels.
- Use consumer and cultural insight as a creative catalyst; ensure creative work begins with a deep understanding of served audiences.
- Partner cross-functionally to deliver the brand vision with excellence across packaging, retail, digital, social, licensing, and entertainment.
- Raise the creative bar by establishing standards for creative excellence and challenging teams and partners to move beyond category conventions.
- Lead, inspire, and develop a high-performing brand creative team with a culture of ambition, curiosity, collaboration, and accountability.
- Influence at the highest levels of the organization by advocating for creative vision with senior leaders through clear, persuasive storytelling.
- Shape the future of creative at Hasbro by embracing emerging technology, AI, and new modes of storytelling.
Requirements
- 15+ years of progressive creative leadership experience in world-class consumer brands, creative agencies, or similarly complex brand environments.
- Experience leading multi-brand portfolios and building distinctive brands that live across both commerce and culture.
- A body of work demonstrating strategic thinking and measurable brand impact, not only execution quality.
- Deep expertise in brand building, creative strategy, creative direction, visual and verbal identity, and integrated brand systems.
- Fluency across channels, with strong understanding of how brand ideas translate across physical, digital, social, retail, experiential, and emerging consumer experiences.
- Proven experience building, leading, and developing senior creative talent and multidisciplinary teams.
- Exceptional ability to influence senior executives and cross-functional partners while protecting the integrity and ambition of the creative vision.
- Ability to balance big creative ambition with commercial reality, including knowing where to push, simplify, and turn strategy into action.
- A strong point of view on culture, consumers, technology, and the changing creative landscape, including opportunities presented by AI and new forms of creative expression.
- Experience in toys, games, entertainment, CPG, or brands at the intersection of retail, fandom, and culture is a major plus.
- Positive, low-ego leadership style with bias toward action and a genuine desire to improve both the work and the people around you.
Additional Details
- Location: Boston, MA (onsite)
- Compensation: USD 157,700 - 236,500 per year
- Technologies: AI
Benefits
- Health & Wellness
- Time Off to Recharge
- Financial Well-being
- Life & Family Support
- Volunteer and Community Initiatives
- Learning & Development
- Exclusive Perks
- Employees may be eligible for annual and long-term incentives as part of their overall compensation package
Global Creative Team
- Craft brand experiences that resonate across audiences and channels, fueling a lifetime of play.
- Turn every touchpoint, physical or digital, into a chance to spark wonder, build desire, and drive business outcomes across an iconic portfolio.
- Operate as one global creative team, united by shared vision, diverse perspectives, and a belief that best ideas can’t be confined by org charts or geographic borders.
- Run multi-disciplinary creative teams driven by curiosity, bravery, and an innate drive to FITFO.