Art Director, Trading Card Games (TCG)

Job Description

About the Team

Fanatics TCG is a new trading card game business, the newest member of the Fanatics Collectibles family. We are here to build the best TCG studio and games in the world.

If you have passion, and skill, and if you believe trading card games represent the very best of what games have to offer, please reach out to us.

Role Summary

The Art Director of (TCG) Trading Card Game Art Direction defines and owns the visual identity, artistic vision, and long-term art strategy for Fanatics Collectibles' trading card game. This role leads the TCG art organization and ensures that every card, product, and experience meets a premium, collectible-quality standard.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the overall visual identity and art direction for the TCG
• Lead and scale the art direction and illustration teams
• Establish long-term art roadmaps across sets, products, and formats
• Partner with Design, Brand, Licensing, and Production to align creative vision
• Ensure art quality, consistency, and innovation across physical and digital products
• Represent Art Direction at the executive level and with external partners and licensors

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 10 years of professional art direction or game art experience
• Minimum 5 years in leadership roles managing art teams or external partners
• Shipped experience on premium physical products, games, or collectibles
• Experience defining visual identity for new IP or major brands

Skills & Abilities

• Exceptional visual taste and creative leadership
• Deep understanding of illustration pipelines, print production, and digital delivery
• Strong cross-functional communication and executive presence
• Ability to balance creative ambition with production realities

Location & Compensation

Achieving our goals requires strong collaboration and partnership between our teams and internal stakeholders. To best support this, the person who accepts this role is expected to be onsite in-office five days per week.

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About Us

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.

About the Team

Fanatics Collectibles is a new model and vision for the hobby, fundamentally changing the experience for current and future collectors, leagues, and players across many U.S. and international professional and college sports. The organization has long-term, exclusive rights to design, manufacture and distribute trading cards for several sports and entertainment properties, including MLB, MLBPA, the Premier League, MLS, UFC, Formula 1 as well as Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars, among others. In January 2022, Fanatics Collectibles announced the acquisition of Topps, establishing the preeminent licensed trading card brand as the cornerstone of Fanatics' trading cards and collectibles business, and jumpstarted its MLB and MLBPA rights to design, manufacture and distribute trading cards