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Art Director

The artwork can make or break a game. We want to make sure that our art is a strong part of what makes our games. If you have a plethora of ideas, artistic vision, and experience, then this role could prove to be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for.

About the role

Your primary responsibility is to ensure innovation and maintain the quality of the art in Paradox games, and to coordinate interplay between Paradox games art styles, ensuring they have a distinct and separate identity. You will work closely with the game projects providing artistic direction that strives to enhance the gameplay experience. This will entail working closely with Game Directors to drive the vision of our current and future titles, and aligning the artistic direction with the overall vision of the game from a design perspective.

Your work will involve close collaboration with the Art Lead and Concept Artists during pre-production to establish the art style for the projects, and create style guides for the team.

On live projects, you will be responsible for leading the art team together with the Art Producer, ensuring that the art direction is set, maintained and that the deliverables meet the deadlines.

This will include regular production follow-up meetings/one-on-ones with Art Leads, as well as reviewing project artwork and providing artistic feedback, both to your art team and to Game Directors and Project Leads.

Requirements

• Around 10 years of experience in the games industry as an Art Director, Lead Artist or a similar management position.
• In-depth understanding of art production processes, and experience with the full development cycle in multiple shipped titles.
• Ability to create, adapt, and iterate, within a variety of artistic styles.
• Solid artistic background and strong sense of aesthetics in Concept, Illustration, UI, 3D, Animation,VFX etc.
• Knowledge of technical constraints, optimization and implementation.
• Articulate in contextualizing decisions, communicating ideas and giving and receiving feedback in English.
• Ability to inspire and develop a dynamic and collaborative team environment.
• An interest in historical accuracy and paradox grand strategy games.

We hope that you have the ability to inspire and develop a dynamic and collaborative team environment, where people support each other in their growth. Since we work with games that have strong historical ties, a strong sense of direction in regards to historical accuracy will be looked upon very favorably.

Some of our benefits include:

If you think that this description matches you, we highly encourage you to apply as soon as possible as we will interview candidates continuously. If you don't match all the requirements, please demonstrate how your passion, attitude and interest in Paradox might compensate for this.

At Paradox Interactive we celebrate difference and care deeply about diversity and inclusion. We therefore encourage you, no matter who you are, to apply for this job if you think you’d be a great addition to our team.