Art Director

About This Role

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

This fully remote role is based in Germany and offers the opportunity to shape scalable art pipelines and production workflows for a distributed, collaborative team.

Responsibilities

• Own and define the overall art direction, visual identity, and creative standards across all game assets
• Direct development of environment art, character design, animation, modeling, rigging, texturing, shader development, concept art, and UI/UX
• Establish clear artistic direction and provide regular feedback to maintain consistency and polish across all visual elements
• Maintain a cohesive visual language across playable species, characters, environments, skins, cosmetics, and future content
• Partner 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 to resolve production challenges
• Optimize artistic workflows to balance visual quality, development efficiency, and live-service content delivery
• 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
• Provide guidance and support to the art team while maintaining alignment with schedules and quality standards
• Contribute to development of new arenas, seasonal content, cosmetics, and post-launch experiences

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Art, Design, or related discipline with substantial professional game production experience
• At least 7 years of professional experience in the gaming industry covering 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 visual identity
• Strong portfolio demonstrating versatility across traditional art, 3D art, animation, UI/UX, and concept art
• Strong 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 disciplines
• Proven ability to improve production workflows and increase creative output and efficiency
• Strong project management and organizational skills with experience tracking milestones and coordinating teams
• Experience with Jira and Confluence; familiarity with advanced roadmap tools is a plus
• 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, remote environment
• Strong collaborative mindset with effective communication across creative and technical teams

How We Work With You

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Pay

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

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