Production Artist 4

About the role

We're looking for a 3D & Concept Artist who understands how Minecraft shows up in pop culture and knows how to turn ideas, stories, and strategic concepts into compelling visual artwork that people want to engage with, share, and remember. This is a hands-on creator role supporting Minecraft's global marketing and social efforts across owned, earned, and paid channels.

You will create high-quality 3D artwork, visual concepts, mockups, sketches, key visuals, and presentation-ready creative that supports social media, paid media, marketing campaigns, franchise moments, and broader storytelling initiatives. You will partner closely with Creative, Marketing and Social teams to help bring ideas to life in ways that feel playful, relevant, and unmistakably Minecraft.

The focus is visual storytelling and concept development. You will help transform ideas into tangible creative expressions that can be used across marketing campaigns, social content, events, product launches, and community initiatives. Whether creating polished key art, visual explorations, concepts, or campaign mockups, your work will help shape how audiences experience Minecraft around the world.

We're looking for someone who thinks like both an artist and a visual communicator. You know how to take a creative brief, define a visual direction, and articulate concepts through sketches, mockups, and finished artwork. You are comfortable working across multiple levels of fidelity, from rapid concept exploration to final execution, and are excited to experiment with new tools, workflows, and AI-enabled creative processes.

You'll be part of a highly collaborative team, working with Creative, Marketing, Social and Production partners to help Minecraft feel alive, current, and deeply connected to the community that plays it.

Scope of work

• Create high-quality 3D artwork, visual concepts, key visuals, sketches, mockups, and creative explorations that support social media, paid media, marketing campaigns, franchise initiatives, and community activations.
• Translate creative briefs, business objectives, franchise moments, and marketing strategies into compelling visual concepts that clearly communicate ideas and inspire stakeholders.
• Develop concept artwork, environmental imagery, product visualizations, campaign assets, and creative mockups that help define and evolve visual directions for projects.
• Create presentation-ready visual materials that help communicate ideas during planning, pitching, and creative development phases.
• Produce artwork that can be adapted across multiple channels and formats, including social media, paid media, websites, events, marketing campaigns, presentations, and partner materials.
• Collaborate closely with Creative Directors, Art Directors, Marketing teams, Social teams and Producers to ensure artwork aligns with strategic objectives and brand standards.
• Explore multiple visual directions and iterations, balancing speed and creativity while maintaining a high-quality bar.
• Stay current on design, gaming, entertainment, technology, and cultural trends, proactively bringing forward new ideas, techniques, and visual opportunities.
• Experiment with new tools, workflows, and formats, including AI-enabled creative workflows, to improve efficiency, creative exploration, and concept development.
• Ensure all artwork aligns with Microsoft and Mojang Studios standards around brand integrity, accessibility, confidentiality, and community guidelines.

Requirements

• 5 to 7+ years of experience in 3D art, concept art, visual development, entertainment art, marketing design, gaming, or related creative fields. Exceptional portfolios can outweigh years of experience.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in 3D artwork, concept development, visual storytelling, mockups, sketches, key visuals, or campaign creative.
• Proven ability to take ideas from concept through execution, using visual thinking and artistic craft to communicate direction and intent.
• Strong understanding of composition, lighting, color, form, storytelling, and visual communication.
• Experience creating artwork that supports both marketing objectives and audience engagement across a variety of channels and touchpoints.
• Ability to work across different levels of fidelity, from rapid sketches and visual explorations to polished presentation materials and final artwork.
• Proficiency in industry standard 3D and creative tools used for modeling, rendering, visual development, and image creation.
• Experience developing mockups, visual prototypes, and concept materials that help stakeholders understand and align around creative ideas.
• Strong collaboration skills with experience partnering across Creative, Marketing, Social, Production, Community, and leadership teams.
• Comfort working in rapid creative cycles. You can incorporate feedback efficiently, explore multiple directions quickly, and maintain quality under tight timelines.
• Strong understanding of brand consistency and good judgment around creating work for a global audience and a passionate community.
• Experience with AI-enabled creative workflows is a strong plus, for example accelerating ideation, concept development, design exploration, rendering workflows, or iteration, while maintaining quality and originality.
• Experience with Minecraft is highly desired.

Pay

$46-$49/hr w2

Schedule

Remote and must work PST hours