Stone Kite

Art Director

• Develop the ownable look and visual style for the game prototype, and lead the process in creating bibles and other materials to help align internal and external artists.
• Collaborate with directors in other disciplines to ensure a strong creative alignment between art, design, narrative, and technology.
• Establish an art quality bar, review process, and feedback culture that aligns the art team with the overall project goals and game direction.
• Partner with incubation teams working in other forms of media to help establish visual design, aesthetic, and art direction principles for a transmedia franchise.
• Work with tech art and engineers to ensure the art direction is in alignment with our performance and platform targets.
• Represent art as a discipline and player experience to leadership and project stakeholders
• Manage a departmental budget and staffing plan in alignment with overall project requirements.
• Develop relationships with co-dev and outsourcing resources.
• Ensure alignment between the art team’s capabilities and the overall project scheduling requirements and milestones.
• Help establish hiring processes including portfolio review guidelines, art tests and job descriptions for future art roles.
• Build an art team from the ground up, hiring key roles and overseeing the team’s growth while preserving positive culture.
• Model and evangelize a positive and inclusive culture where everyone can do their best work.