PLAYSTUDIOS EUROPE is looking for an Art Director, responsible for leading game projects together with the Product Owner, assuring product value matches company vision & standards. This includes the management of concept artists, UI designers, animators, sound designers, and copy (to a lesser extent, ensuring theme cohesion). The role is to guide the creative team through specific projects, and on the individual level to ensure personal growth and address particular team members’ needs, aspirations, and potential issues.
- Guiding teams through all phases of production – Ideation and Brainstorming Phase, Planning Phase, Production Phase, Post Production, Polish and Optimization Phase, and Cross Project Management
- Organization of periodic syncs in order to keep track of the project status and progress of creative tasks and keeping track of project requirements and deadlines in order to avoid potential deadline issues
- Resource management to keep smooth production even in the events when project members are unavailable for a period of time
- Being synced on a management level and helping in improving our game productions by documentation, lectures, and initiatives
- Direct management of creative team members (with perhaps exception of shared resources such as sound design, copywriters, and vendors)
- Weeklies or periodicals with team members tracking their personal progress and growth.
- Working on growth targets with individual team members, performance reviews, workshop suggestions
- Working on individual team members’ independence in creative decision making and task solving
REQUIREMENTS
- At least 3+ years of experience leading a creative team
- Demonstrate a high level of skill in Graphic Design, 3D Animation, Illustration, Adobe Indesign/ Photoshop, and/ or other visual game design
- Highly organized with an ability to deliver projects on time
- Experience managing multiple parallel projects
- Familiarity with operating in a high paced/ dynamic work environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English