RESPONSIBILITIES

As Art Director you are responsible for visually establishing, developing and maintaining the game artistic style and visual quality. You are a master of the creative process with a good head for game design and an ability to rationalise creative endeavour against production needs/timelines - ensuring the right tasks are tackled in the right order that will best lead to success.

You will foster good working practices and a positive working environment within your team.
You will assist Craft Art Leads and sometimes directly line-manage members of the art team, ensuring they are best capable of fulfilling their commitments and are suitably informed through regular interaction and excellent documentation.
You will use your considerable expertise and experience to guide the wider art team to develop a strong visual identity during pre-production, answering the game design and business ambitions.
You will work with the Studio Art Director in establishing a game's art direction and steward the vision through development stages, marketing art and live operations via Style Guides, in-depth documentation and ongoing communication.
You will assist the Production Team/Leads in scheduling sprints and/or entire projects.
You will continually look for opportunities to innovate and improve the visual quality and game play experience - collaborating/pushing/leading artists - and all game team disciplines where necessary - to ensure the project delivers an exemplary and memorable game vision that captures and delights our players.
You will identify and raise any risks or issues as you find them to the Leads/Studio Art Director or Leadership Team.
You will represent the Game Art Team and Game Vision internally and externally as needed.

REQUIREMENTS

Our ideal candidate will have a comprehensive portfolio showing wonderful examples of your craft in different styles. We are looking for someone with experience leading a project or mentoring a team.

Experience in estimating/scheduling (ideally within an agile environment)
Excellent organisational mind
Skilled in one or more of the craft areas - knowledgeable in all
Excellent communication skills and a positive demeanour
Ability to understand business and product needs and ability to decipher and adhere to existing IP styles
Excellent sensitivity and understanding of game narrative
Able to ideate and empathise with player personas
Able to propose art styles that suit the game narrative and design, stretch the technology and appeal to the target audience
Experience on multiple games and ability to work across varied art styles
Keeps up to date with visual trends in entertainment - able to reference popular and obscure cultural IP...not just games

Desirable skills / experience

Industry experience at multiple game/entertainment studios an advantage
Experience building teams an advantage
Experience with outsourced art and external contract support an advantage
Previous experience of managing relationships with external partners
Experience on a successful free-to-play mobile game

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Are you interested in creating moments that matter, for millions of players, in games that run for years?

Does the idea of working together with a friendly team of Tonics towards the common goal of making great games appeal to you?

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