Art Director
QbDVision
WordPress
Art Director
Stone Kite
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $200,000 - $250,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- 8+ years experience in games as a production or concept artist, with multiple shipped titles required
- Experience shipping at least one project in an Art Director role is required
- Excellent management skills, having developed and overseen an art team
- Experience with Unreal engine required
- Ability to establish workflows and standards, balancing technical precision with creative needs
- Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the initiative to drive solutions independently
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to work both autonomously and in a small creative group
- Excellent communication and feedback skills with a passion for quality and excellence
- Ability to adapt and problem solve in a fast-paced startup environment
Benefits
- Competitive medical, vision, and dental benefits
- Generous PTO
- Winter holiday break
- 401k Options
- Monthly meals stipend
- Opportunities for learning and development across multiple areas of media and forms of storytelling
- Be a part of a fun, innovative team
- Experience the ground-floor start up culture
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
art directionconcept artworkflow establishmentart quality barportfolio reviewart testsproject scheduling
Soft skills
management skillseffective communicationcollaboration skillsproblem solvinginitiativeadaptabilityteam buildingpositive culture
