• Supervise the art team and establishes the visual direction of game content.
• Accountable for the quality of art created for one console project in the studio.
• Report to the Studio Art Director and work in partnership with the teams leaders to manage the project and ensure the art quality meets industry standards.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Establish the visual content/art vision for a project and as required, maintain and refine the art content during each stage of production to ensure the highest standards achievable.
• Take an active role in planning of project, authoring/maintaining style guides.
• Define and plant the scope of work with the Development Manager and Producer in addition to techniques used to ensure the delivery of AAA quality art.
• Regularly reviews, provides feedback and works with Producer to approve the art content.
• Reliably spec out new projects and ensures the Art team has sufficient resources to deliver.
• Provide mentorship to a team of artists.
• Coordinate with other Leads and Studio Art Director
• Submit weekly reports regarding the status of art team’s progress on the project.
• As required, assist individual artists on specific tasks to ensure successful visual approach.
• Contribute to performance review for art staff.
• Demonstrate strong leadership in the development of all employees
• Help to establish and standardize art team best practices
• Deliver internal presentations on art practices and methods
• Ensure knowledge and asset sharing between teams
• Review new hires

Skills and Qualifications:

• Two years of game industry experience preferred or equivalent work experience.
• Proven experience managing large and diverse teams
• High level of competence in at least one field of game art, including experience with techniques and software packages associated with the field.
• Additionally, a working understanding of other sub-disciplines is required. Fields include, but are not limited to: Concept Design, Graphic Design, Animation, Environment Modeling, Character Modeling, Texturing, Rigging & Lighting

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• A capacity to produce finished art of exceptional quality
• The ability to work effectively with no guidance
• Ability to take initiative and explore solutions to problems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent problem solving and interpersonal skills
• Solution-oriented