Double Eleven

Art Director

• Lead the end-to-end vision and execution of art direction, ensuring that all visual content meets defined quality, performance and scheduling requirements.
• Deliver the necessary artistic quality around a changing schedule, working with producers, designers and engineering to hit all sprints
• Review and sign off on deliverables across all art disciplines (concept, environment, character, UI, VFX, animation), providing actionable feedback and guidance
• Ensure the art direction is clearly documented through resources like the Art Bible and style guides, enabling consistent and repeatable execution
• Stay ahead of industry trends, bring fresh ideas and techniques to elevate the visual identity.
• Build and maintain the processes, workflows and pipelines that allow the art team to support regular content updates - bi-monthly, seasonal, new features, live events and ongoing enhancements
• Work with production to forecast, estimate and plan art tasks across sprints and releases balancing creative goals with operational constraints
• Identify and mitigate art-related risks to delivery, including resource bottlenecks, technical limitations or changing priorities
• Take full accountability for the performance and wellbeing of the individual artists on your project and the overall successful cohesiveness of the team
• Lead meetings, make key decisions and drive art direction at the highest level of the project and give creative direction
• Support and guide leads, empowering them to manage their teams maintaining consistency and quality across the project
• Manage/report issues of any art conflicts that would interfere with the visual goals, performance, or scheduling
• Conduct regular 1 to 1s, manage performance and development plans. And mentor team members on both creative and production practices
• As needed, build and maintain effective relationships and deliver art direction with outsourcing partners to scale art production for games and marketing without compromising standards
• Review art candidates in all disciplines and conduct interviews
• Own and constantly improve the candidate selection experience and process
• Communicate and collaborate in a positive and supportive way across all disciplines in the project leadership team to achieve the best art direction for the project while minimising conflict and maximising resolution to complete the project.
• Drive team wide communication around scheduling, dependencies and technical considerations
• Contribute to the Double Eleven Way by working with our business operations teams to continually improve the way we make games and support our people
• Own and oversee the technical and creative process across all art disciplines; from tools and workflows to getting assets in game, ensuring they all scale with the demands of a live service game
• Partner with engineering teams to define requirements for new tools, optimisations, or pipeline improvements.
• Ensure all art content is performant, game-ready and optimised for the target platforms and release cadence
• Regular weekly insight reporting through our internal tools
• Effectively communicate, present, and negotiate (verbal and written) at the highest level to key stakeholders around the production needs
• Regularly present art direction and content plans to internal stakeholders and our partners, ensuring alignment with project goals
• Support publishing team with art requirements for trailers, key art and other promotional materials, coordinating with production where necessary

3D Artist

• Work directly with Art Director and Production in coordinating art resources, schedules and priorities based on project needs
• Provide direction to asset team artists for aesthetic and technical considerations
• Will need to fully understand and work around existing art pipelines
• Be hands on with the art team producing benchmark assets to style and brief of project
• Required to help lead the production and creation of art assets for the projects
• Able to communicate and deliver assets cooperatively and independently within a 3rd Party production environment
• Has expertise with PBR, lighting, rendering, and material authoring
• Collaborate with Production to prioritize work, identify issues in JIRA, and escalate them to production, ensuring tasks have sufficient information
• Reviewing work to meet the technical requirements and following best practices for the highest quality
• Proactive in finding answers and able to clearly communicate issues and direction to the team
• Capable of owning development of, and delivering, content while leading by example
• Ensure the team maintains high-quality artistic results and milestone delivery, while encouraging effective communication and professionalism
• Receives and provides critique in a professional manner
• Able to manage and mentor career development of 3D Artists at various skill levels
• Leading a team of talented artists

Lead 3D Artist

QA Engineer

• Define the testing processes to ensure fast and accurate qualitative and functional testing.
• Provide personal support, mentoring, and professional development for QA testers
• Assist with the recruitment of additional QA testers
• Review the capacity of the team relating to the scope of the project
• Stay up-to-date with planned changes and updates from the Development team
• Develop and maintain test workflows for the assigned area(s) with a focus on the efficiency of the project and the quality of the game
• Develop, optimise, and complete smoke tests for the assigned area(s) or specific builds to ensure they are usable as the project requires
• Propose, develop, optimise, and execute test cases for the assigned area(s) with a focus on the efficiency and quality of the project
• Create and maintain relevant documentation to aid with development and testing
• Autonomously determine the prioritisation of assigned work based on the project’s needs, and clarify requirements with relevant team members where needed
• Generate and present testing strategies in advance of upcoming work for the assigned area(s), and participate in the enactment of those strategies
• Raise project issues and risks that you observe to the relevant parties and participate in the mitigation of those risks with a view to avoiding recurring issues
• Establish and maintain good communication and productive collaboration with all team members on the project
• Support the Development, Production, and Publishing teams with specific requests
• Be an advocate for working best practices, maintaining high standards, and setting an example for the rest of the QA team.

QA Lead

Game Engineer

• Associate Lead Programmer role based in Middlesbrough, UK, leading a skilled code team and collaborating with designers, artists and other disciplines to deliver game titles
• Lead and mentor a small team of programmers, supporting their professional development
• Design, develop, test, and implement high-quality systems and gameplay code
• Conduct code reviews to maintain technical standards and improve code quality across the team
• Collaborate with designers, artists, and publishing teams to deliver the highest possible quality titles
• Work closely with production to define the project roadmap and deliver milestones according to schedule
• Participate in regular client meetings, serving as a technical point of contact for the project
• Focus on code optimisation, performance improvement, and ensuring top-tier code quality

Art Director

Lead 3D Artist

QA Lead

Associate Lead Programmer, Unreal Engine