Art Director
Our company, located in the San Francisco Bay Area, is searching for a top-of-the-line Art Director to validate art development processes direction of both 3D and 2D games from third party internal teams. The successful candidate will interface with the content team to oversee the content of projects from the beginning to completion of an array of platforms (i.e. social games). He or she will have the responsibility of validating the overall quality, efficiency, direction, quality of all work completed by artists.
Responsibilities:
- Develop art review processes within current processes for content approval that will ensure consistency, validate art direction, assess critical issues
- Lead the creation of mock-ups for approval of concepts
- Set art objectives for projects
- Evaluate several different solutions concepts for an array of projects, while also validating determining the ones that are the most relevant Validate assess art pipelines (i.e. schedule, scope, budgets)
- Identify opportunities inconsistencies for improvement
- Validate evaluate art production at certain milestones throughout production
- Report to management on projects issues status, as well as offered solutions
- Engage in studios inter-departments communications to identify, implement, document best practices
Required Skills:
- Experienced in games development
- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Arts, Arts or similar field is required
- A minimum of six to eight years of advanced leadership professional experience, which includes project management communication skills
- At least four years of experience in senior level professional
- Knowledgeable of technical art best practices constraints tools
- Expert in design/arts with the ability to mentor, direct, enhance efforts of team that relies on creativity
- Able to work efficiently with cross-functional teams
- Solid understanding of storytelling art direction
- Experience with the management of several different priorities, projects, deadlines (with strong attention to detail)
- Strong collaboration skills
- Solid verbal written communication skills
- Knowledgeable of UE UI (Plus)
If interested in this excellent opportunity, please send your resume in a word attachment to: James@ZanderMax.com
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