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Art Director, Mobile Games

PerBlue is looking for an experienced and highly motivated Art Director to guide the creation of artistic assets in our mobile games. We’re a quickly growing independent studio whose free-to-play midcore mobile games have been played by millions people around the world, including the award-winning Disney Heroes: Battle Mode .

Our cross-functional and collaborative team has experience across the videogame industry. Headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, we are also based remotely around the United States for an unmatched quality of life and work.

Ideal Candidate

You'll have a great eye for visual style and a track record of building awesome brands and characters. You'll excel at managing art production pipelines. You should be a great communicator, extremely organized, and very goal-oriented. You’re a creative thinker, but thrive while working within constraints. You should excel in highly cross-functional and dynamic environments. You should be focused on business results and building to the market.

Responsibilities

This is a hybrid art lead/management position. As an art lead, you’ll work closely with product leads to set and define the artistic style and vision within one of our games including theme, characters, and environments. You’ll bring our characters to life, building strong, lasting game brands. This is a highly collaborative role that works closely with our Chief Product Officer and other studio leadership where you’ll be deeply involved in helping shape and continuing to improve the artistic direction of our games.

As a manager, you will manage the studio’s other art leads, supporting and empowering them to produce great work in their games. You will also serve as the people manager for the internal art team, providing them with mentorship, support, and career feedback. You will work closely with the art producers to ensure deadlines are met, efficient resourcing decisions are made, and a high quality bar is met. Lastly, you will assist the art producers in managing external vendors and ensuring they produce high-quality work on time and for reasonable costs.

Specific Requirements & Qualifications

• 5+ years of video game studio creative team leadership experience (mobile and free to play preferred).
• Thorough understanding of 2D and 3D art asset production pipelines and software tools, and have direct experience managing those pipelines.
• Able to effectively provide constructive feedback to drive the creative process and deliver superb results.
• Able to manage art leads and external art vendors.
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written, and interpersonal), and the ability to effectively communicate with both your team members and management.
• Excelled in prior Art Director or Art Lead roles with a proven track record of effectively managing both internal and external teams.

Desired Skills

• Close attention to detail and results-focused.
• Proactive and able to take ownership of processes, projects, and issues.
• Ability to lead, mentor, manage, and direct to perform management duties.
• Strong understanding of mobile technological constraints and challenges.

Compensation and Benefits

We offer 6+ weeks of paid vacation and health, dental, and vision insurance as well as a well-matched 401k. We also support our remote team with a catered lunch plan, snack box delivery, and a variety of other perks. You'll be part of an energetic, diverse, and collaborative environment with flexible hours. We are headquartered in the vibrant neighborhood around beautiful downtown Madison .

We’ve been named to several “Best Place to Work” awards by a variety of publications.

No agencies, please. We regret that we cannot consider visa sponsorship or candidates based outside of the United States for this position at this time.