Associate Creative Director - Activision

Your Mission

As an Associate Creative Director, UX/UI Design, you will lead the creative vision and execution for Activision's digital platform experiences, including callofduty.com, activision.com, mobile applications, and other connected player experiences. This is a hands-on leadership role that combines creative direction, team leadership, and principal-level design execution. You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and franchise stakeholders to shape user experiences that are high quality, scalable, and aligned with both player needs and business goals. You will help define the future of Activision's digital ecosystem while contributing directly to key initiatives and raising the overall quality and craft of the design organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creative vision and UX/UI direction across Activision's digital platforms and experiences.
• Drive end-to-end UX/UI strategy and execution for high-impact initiatives across web and application experiences.
• Operate as both a creative leader and hands-on contributor on complex design initiatives.
• Lead, mentor, and support designers through feedback, critiques, coaching, and creative direction.
• Establish and maintain high standards for UX quality, visual design, interaction design, accessibility, and design systems.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Project Management, and Marketing teams to align creative execution with business and player goals.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to define long-term platform and experience strategy.
• Help evolve team workflows, collaboration models, and design processes to improve quality and delivery efficiency.
• Champion player-centered design practices through research, usability testing, analytics, and iterative design improvements.
• Contribute directly to UX architecture, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, and design problem solving where needed.
• Stay current with trends in digital product design, gaming experiences, interaction design, and emerging technologies.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in UX/UI, product design, or digital creative leadership.
• Proven experience leading large-scale digital product experiences across web and mobile platforms.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional UX thinking, visual design craft, systems-level problem solving, and hands-on design execution.
• Experience leading and mentoring designers and creative teams in fast-paced product organizations.
• Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on design contribution and execution.
• Deep understanding of UX strategy, interaction design, visual systems, accessibility standards, and modern design workflows.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with Product, Engineering, Project Management, and Marketing organizations.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate creative strategy and influence stakeholders at multiple levels.
• Experience building scalable digital experiences and contributing to design systems and platform consistency.
• Passion for gaming, entertainment, and player-focused experiences.

Your Platform

We're headquartered in Santa Monica, California, housing multiple teams across many disciplines of Marketing, PR, Sales, Supply Chain, and other corporate functions such as HR, IT, Legal, Facilities, and Finance. Santa Monica is the nerve center of our company, where the best ideas combine with unrivalled rigor to create the biggest and best entertainment experiences in the world. The video game industry and therefore our business are fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

Pay

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $145,820.00 - $269,768.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role's range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.