Designer

We’re looking for a hands-on Designer who knows how to turn ideas, stories, and strategic concepts into clear, compelling visuals for our client, Minecraft. Whether developing a campaign layout, building a presentation, or adapting an existing design across formats, your work will help shape how audiences engage with and experience Minecraft around the world.

This role focuses on design and creative production, in support of Minecraft’s global marketing efforts across product launches, franchise moments, community initiatives, campaigns, events, social media, and Mojang studio initiatives and communications.

In this role, you’ll help transform ambiguous ideas into concise high-quality marketing assets, PowerPoint presentations, layouts, and production-ready creative, as well as adaptations, crops, and resizes for a variety of channels. You’ll collaborate closely with internal Creative, Marketing, Social and Production teams to bring ideas to life in ways that feel playful, relevant, and unmistakably Minecraft.

Our ideal candidate is someone who knows how to take a creative brief, deliver thoughtful design concepts, with a clear visual hierarchy that balances storytelling, brand consistency, and practical production needs. You’ll be comfortable working from early layout exploration to final execution and understand how to maintain quality across a wide range of deliverables. You’ll understand the language of social media and how gaming, entertainment, and internet culture influence what feels current and relevant. You’ll have proven experience on how to adapt creative to suit different platforms without losing the intent of the work and deeply connecting with the Minecraft community.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design and produce high-quality creative assets that support marketing campaigns, events, franchise initiatives, social media, community activations, and Mojang studio initiatives.
• Translate creative briefs, business objectives, and ambiguous ideas into clear, concise visuals that communicate effectively and align with strategic goals.
• Develop new layouts and campaign assets and adapt existing creative across channels while maintaining a consistent visual direction.
• Work within existing brand guidelines, templates, and visual systems, contributing reusable layouts and design elements that improve consistency and production efficiency.
• Create and refine PowerPoint presentations that communicate ideas through strong storytelling, thoughtful layout, and clear visual hierarchy.
• Produce crops, resizes, and layout adaptations for a variety of placements and specifications, preserving the quality and intent of the original design.
• Collaborate closely with Creative Directors, Art Directors, Producers, Marketing and Social teams to ensure creative aligns with strategic objectives and brand standards.
• Prepare production-ready files with attention to detail, accuracy, and channel requirements.
• Ensure all creative aligns with Microsoft and Mojang Studios standards around brand integrity, accessibility, confidentiality, and community guidelines.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 3+ years of relevant experience in design, creative production, or related creative fields.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating marketing design, layout, visual communication, presentation design, and consistent execution across a range of deliverables. Exceptional portfolios can outweigh years of experience.
• Minecraft game knowledge, including familiarity with its visual identity, player experience, and community.
• Proven ability to take ideas from brief through execution, turning ambiguous inputs into clear, purposeful design.
• Proven ability to work within established brand guidelines and visual systems while finding thoughtful ways to keep creative fresh and relevant.
• Proven ability to explore creative directions and incorporate feedback efficiently, balancing speed and creativity while maintaining a high-quality bar.
• Experience creating marketing assets across multiple channels and formats, including digital campaigns, events, presentations, and social media.
• Strong understanding of typography, composition, color, visual hierarchy, and brand consistency.
• Strong PowerPoint skills, with experience turning complex information and rough ideas into clear, engaging presentations.
• Experience adapting layouts and producing crops, resizes, and asset variations while preserving design quality and meeting channel specifications.
• Proficiency in industry-standard design tools, including Adobe Creative Suite and tools used for collaborative layout and design production.
• Understanding and working knowledge of social media platforms, their creative conventions, and audience expectations when creating or adapting social assets.
• Experience with AI-enabled creative workflows and processes to support accelerating design exploration, layout iteration, versioning, and production efficiency.
• Bonus: Experience developing visual systems, design systems, or reusable templates.
• Bonus: Experience with motion design or video editing and game capture.
  
  

ATTRIBUTES:

• Highly motivated with a passion for innovation and drive to exceed personal goals and client expectations.
• Exceptional attention to detail, internal quality control, and craftsmanship, when designing, preparing, organizing, and delivering production-ready files.
• Cultural awareness and understanding of the impact gaming, entertainment, internet culture, and community interests have and how that can inform effective creative.
• Strong collaboration skills with experience partnering across Creative, Marketing, Social, Production, Community, and internal stakeholder teams.
• Comfort working in rapid creative cycles with the ability to manage multiple deliverables, incorporate feedback efficiently, and maintain quality under tight timelines.
• Strong understanding of brand safety and good judgment around creating work for a global audience and a passionate community.
• Highly adaptable to produce a range of visual styles, and tasks within a project.
• Highly organized – able to independently build, track, and execute tasks from start to finish.

Benefits Overview:

• Medical, dental, vision, basic life/AD&D, long-term disability, and employee assistance programs
• Additional voluntary benefits like short-term disability plans and health coverage for dependents
• 401(k) & HSA
• Competitive PTO plan
• 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year, plus additional floating holidays

EEO & DEI:

TenGun is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with anti-discrimination law, it is the purpose of this policy to effectuate these principles and mandates. TenGun prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. TenGun conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.

The company reserves the right to modify or change benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.