Art Director

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential gaming studio seeking an experienced Art Director to lead the complete visual identity of a multiplayer shooter project built in Unreal Engine. This is a hands-on creative leadership role where you'll own artistic direction across characters, environments, animation, weapons, concept art, and UI/UX while leading a multidisciplinary art team through production and live-service content development.

Responsibilities

• Own and define the overall art direction, visual identity, and creative standards across the entire game experience
• Direct development of environment art, character design, animation, modeling, rigging, texturing, shader development, concept art, and UI/UX elements
• Establish clear artistic direction and provide regular feedback to ensure assets remain consistent, polished, and aligned with the game's identity
• Maintain a cohesive visual language across playable characters, environments, cosmetics, and future seasonal content
• Partner closely with creative leadership, game designers, technical teams, and product stakeholders to integrate art seamlessly with gameplay
• Build and maintain effective 3D art pipelines within Unreal Engine and collaborate with technical teams to resolve production challenges
• Optimize artistic workflows to balance visual quality, development efficiency, and live-service content delivery pace
• Plan and execute art production from early concepts through release-ready assets and post-launch updates
• Track milestones, production progress, and deliverables using project management tools including Jira and Confluence
• Provide regular feedback, guidance, and mentorship to the art team while maintaining alignment with schedules and quality expectations
• Contribute to development of new arenas, seasonal content, cosmetics, and post-launch experiences
• Work cross-functionally to identify and resolve technical or production challenges affecting artistic quality or delivery timelines

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Art, Design, or related discipline with substantial professional game production experience
• Minimum 7 years professional experience in the gaming industry, with exposure to full development lifecycle from pre-production through live operations
• Proven experience directing or significantly contributing to at least one shipped AA or AAA game
• Hands-on experience creating stylized games with hand-painted textures and maintaining distinctive, cohesive visual identity
• Strong portfolio demonstrating versatility across traditional art, 3D art, animation, UI/UX, and concept art with consistently high craftsmanship standards
• Deep knowledge of multidisciplinary art production including 2D, 3D, animation, modeling, rigging, texturing, shaders, and UI/UX
• Professional proficiency in Maya and Substance Painter
• Strong experience with Unreal Engine and 3D art production pipelines
• Demonstrated ability to solve technical and production challenges collaboratively across engineering, design, and cross-functional teams
• Proven ability to improve production workflows and increase creative output and operational efficiency
• Strong project management and organizational skills with experience tracking milestones and coordinating multidisciplinary teams
• Experience with Jira and Confluence; familiarity with Jira Advanced Roadmaps or Jira Plans is a significant advantage
• Excellent leadership, communication, mentoring, and stakeholder-management skills
• Ability to provide clear artistic direction while remaining hands-on in day-to-day production
• Comfortable working autonomously in a distributed, globally remote environment
• Strong collaborative mindset with ability to communicate effectively across creative and technical disciplines

How We Work With You

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Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on experience and qualifications.

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