Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Art Designer role stands out in the SaaS ecosystem because it sits at the intersection of digital product development and brand system building—work that increasingly matters for subscription businesses where visual identity must remain coherent across frequent releases and multiple channels. While the listing is for a trading card game studio rather than a classic B2B SaaS product, the operating rhythm described—iterative updates, cross-functional collaboration, and structured asset delivery—maps closely to how modern software-led organizations ship and maintain products.
From a career standpoint, the role builds durable SaaS-adjacent strengths: translating creative direction into repeatable production workflows, managing external contributors with clear briefs and feedback loops, and safeguarding quality standards under ongoing release cycles. Experience aligning Design, Narrative, and Production partners also mirrors the stakeholder management required in SaaS environments where design decisions are constrained by timelines, systems, and downstream implementation.
This position is best suited to an experienced individual contributor who prefers hands-on art direction while coordinating with illustrators and vendors. It will fit professionals who value process, consistency, and detail, and who want their craft to influence a product’s long-term visual language rather than one-off campaigns. The onsite expectation also signals a collaborative working style centered on close partnership.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
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 Senior Art Designer is a hands-on contributor responsible for directing and producing high-quality card art and visual content that supports the TCG’s visual identity while meeting production and quality standards.
Responsibilities
- Art direct individual cards, sets, and thematic content
- Work directly with illustrators and vendors on briefs and feedback
- Ensure artwork meets style, quality, and print requirements
- Collaborate with Design, Narrative, and Production partners
- Support iteration, revisions, and post-release updates
Qualifications & Experience
- Minimum 5 years of professional art direction or illustration experience
- Experience working on games, collectibles, or premium visual products
- Strong portfolio demonstrating illustration, layout, or art direction work
- Familiarity with print production and digital asset delivery
Skills & Abilities
- Strong artistic judgment and attention to detail
- Ability to give clear, constructive feedback to artists
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
- Passion for trading card games, collectibles, and visual design
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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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.
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
