Andrei
Gorgos

Creative Lead|Art Direction

Hey there!

I'm Andrei, a creative lead and graphic designer with 18 years of experience.

I'm passionate about imaginative visuals, growing strong teams, and AI-powered creative workflows.

I thrive where collaboration, individual excellence, sharp attention, and constructive feedback drive growth.

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Work Experience

Art Team Lead

Iron Sheep TECH | Aug 2025 to Present

Lead the Art Team across the full development lifecycle of sweepstakes and iGaming-style games.
Direct creative strategy, concepts, visual production, audio direction, UI/UX support, promotional design, and final quality control.
Serve as main designer for an internal AI-powered production and automated game-creation platform.
Use generative AI, prompt engineering, and workflow automation to improve speed, consistency, and creative output.

Marketing Production Team Lead

Molson Coors GBS | Jan 2024 to Aug 2025

Led and mentored 8 designers, from junior to senior, delivering digital, print, and real-world marketing assets.
Coordinated production across North America, Canada, and Romania while maintaining brand quality and efficient workflows.
Helped plan and launch Pixel Craft Lab, an internal academy supporting design training, upskilling, and career mobility.

Creative Team Lead

Playtika | Oct 2019 to Jun 2023

Built a Marketing & Monetization Creative team in Romania from scratch as a remote-work proof of concept.
Recruited and onboarded designers and copywriters through external and internal-mobility channels.
Led a cross-functional team across Romania and Israel.
Contributed to product features, UI/UX, and game-experience improvements for Slotomania and Caesars Slots.

Art Director

Nutaku | Nov 2017 to Sep 2019

Led an Art department of 9 across Graphic Design and Art teams.
Directed marketing and monetization design plus 2D art, UI/UX, character, environment, and interface work for the publisher's IP portfolio.

Lead Graphic Designer

BitterStrawberry | Feb 2016 to Nov 2017

Created brand identities, logos, and landing pages.
Produced photo editing, skin retouching, and cover design for web and print.
Helped hire and train a junior designer.

2D Artist & UI Designer

T-Me Studios | Jan 2015 to Dec 2015

Contributed to an exceptional team specializing in Android mobile interface design, specifically in input methods like keyboards, SMS themes, and launchers.
Involved in content creation for the redraw.io platform and the American Keyboard app, including the development of the app's initial visual identity.
Played a role in organizing the HackaTMe Hackathon, aiming for it to be an ongoing annual event.

Production Designer

Electronic Arts | 2011 to 2014

Collaborated closely with Creative Services' Sr. Designers and Content Producers to grasp design concepts, constraints, and requirements for titles like Fifa, Madden NFL, Battlefield, Simpsons Tapped Out, Plants vs Zombies, Dungeon Keeper, and more.
Captured in-game footage from diverse platforms.
Produced marketing assets for sales campaigns, promotions, submissions, and online materials.
Contributed to the evolution of EA Social Mobile Publishing's brand.

Education

Spiru Haret University

Journalism | 2009 - 2012

Graphic Design Graduate

Skill Training, Diploma Issued by RO Ministry of Labor | 2008

Polytechnic University of Bucharest

Aerospatial Engineering | 2005 - 2008, discontinued after 3rd year

Skills

adobe photoshop
adobe illustrator
art direction
figma / UI-UX
cross functional team leadership
generative AI
prompt engineering

Selected work · 2011 – 2026

Portfolio

Game art, live-ops and monetization campaigns, brand identities and illustration, from Electronic Arts to ZOOT. Tap any piece to see it large.

ZOOT Originals

Iron Sheep TECH · Art Team Lead · 2025 – now

Games designed, art-directed and shipped on getzoot.us for ZOOT's own players: seasonal and sports moments, pop-culture riffs and arcade titles across Mines, Plinko, Tower, Pong, Dice and bespoke formats. Each live screen is shown with the game's catalogue tile.

Built live with players

ZOOT · made on stream

Two games that started as player ideas and shipped the same day.

Client game skins

ZOOT · 12 brands

Skins built to each client's own identity: their marks, palettes and mascots carried through proven game formats, so every game reads as theirs.

Golden Hearts

A family of games dressed in Golden Hearts' identity, from gold-and-ruby Plinko to a fruit-stand tower, so every game reads as theirs.

Wombet

Wombet's mascot world: wombats and greenery across the mines grid.

Syarikat MR

A full suite in Syarikat MR's green-and-gold: one brand world carried across mines, plinko, pong, tower, pinball and dice, alongside the MR Gold Royale reel game.