Lead Visual Designer

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. A Little About Us Yahoo is a global media and tech company that reaches nearly 900 million people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love—from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming, and news—through trusted products, content, and technology that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full‑stack platform that helps businesses amplify growth and build meaningful connections across advertising, search, and media. 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, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment with Yahoo brand guidelines. Establish and evolve a distinctive visual look and feel for Yahoo Games while maintaining flexibility across different game types and formats. Create high‑quality game art assets, including UI elements, environments, characters, icons, and animations. Partner closely with Game Design and Product Management to shape the game experience from concept through launch. Collaborate with Product Design to ensure strong UI design, usability, and adherence to best practices. Work closely with the Game Producer to support project planning, schedules, and milestones. Manage and guide contract artists and external development partners, providing clear direction, feedback, and quality control. Ensure art assets are optimized for performance across desktop and mobile web platforms. Partner with Engineering to ensure smooth integration of assets into builds and production pipelines. Support the creation of promotional and marketing art in collaboration with Marketing, Growth, and Yahoo Design Studio. Contribute to playtests and reviews, providing feedback on visual clarity, readability, and overall player experience. Champion visual quality, craft, and consistency across all Yahoo Games experiences. Provide feedback on the visual design of third‑party games. You Must Have 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. Nice to Have 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. The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity. At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don't require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in‑person events or team sessions. You'll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter! Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form ( ) or call View phone number on click.appcast.io . Requests and calls received for non‑disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace strengthens Yahoo and deepens our relationships. When you support everyone to be their best selves, they spark discovery, innovation and creativity. Among other efforts, our 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship that help educate, support and create a workplace where all feel welcome. The compensation for this position ranges from $128,250.00 - $266,875.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more. Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site. #J-18808-Ljbffr