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Art Manager
1 year ago
Company Summary
Product Madness is a Global Powerhouse where the greatest mobile games and experiences are crafted by world-class talent. A top-grossing leader in free to play mobile games, we have more than 800 team members working across seven global talent hubs including London (headquarters), USA, Canada, Spain, Poland and Ukraine. With remarkable hit games including Heart of Vegas, Cashman Casino, Lighting Link and Big Fish Casino, we boast more than 50 million active users and 400 million downloads and counting.
We are Mad about games and the way they bring people together, and that passion and culture is what brings us together as a studio, connects us with our partners we collaborate with, and is what links us to our sister studios across the world.
Product Madness is an Aristocrat Technologies company within its digital game’s division of Pixel United.
Job Posting Title
Art ManagerSummary
We’re looking for a talented artist to join one of our flagship mobile games as an Art Manager. In this role you will be responsible for reading and translating the business and project strategy into team strategy, supporting Leads to execute it. You’ll have the chance to move a game from prototype through pre-production.
You will lead a team of 15 talented artists split in team pods, where you will be expected to set a clear vision, build trust, provide consistent feedback, and understand each artist's goals and needs, helping to establish a clear path for everyone to achieve their goals. Also foster a sense of team spirit by developing a shared understanding, accountability and enthusiasm for the team’s work. You actively see retention of talent as a priority and have a strategy to build development & commitment.
You will also work alongside developers, game designers and product managers to ensure the art supports the game experience. You will coordinate together with your team Leads, external art partners to outsource some of the art work, partner with production to develop high level execution plans and own the execution strategy.
As Art Manager, you are expected to develop the art direction and overall look and feel of the game, balancing visual satisfaction and gameplay clarity to ensure amazing experiences. You will push art quality where players see it and know when to pull back on quality where they won’t.What You'll Do
- Mobile game development experience
- Ability to create a wide range of game assets
- Experience as anArt Manager or Art Director
- Worked on the project from inception through completion
- Knowledge of technical constraints, optimization, and implementation
- Passion for games development and strong game culture
- Experience in team leadership and management
- Strong artistic skills
- Excellent communication skills and teamwork oriented attitude
- Problem solving attitude
- Able to drive change and inspire others to generate new ideas
- Demonstrably exceptional portfolio
- Professional level of English
What We're Looking For
- You satisfactorily manages own emotions in difficult situations so as to not cause negative disruption in the team.
- You encourage others to be creative and try new things.
- You stimulate the team to generate enthusiasm in their approach to people and tasks to develop solutions which make things better.
- You give advice and guidance to individuals.
- You informally and formally supports performance evaluation.
- You demonstrate an ongoing commitment to helping and supporting others across all levels of the business.
- You motivate self and others to try new ideas and takes time to coach, mentor and support others.
- You lead by example to demonstrate what's required.
- You are able to make suggestions for increasing the effectiveness of changes.
- You are able to apply a specific change model and demonstrates how they could be applied in order to bring change effectively.
- You exercise strong influence in the recruitment and selection process to ensure the right individuals for the role and the team.
- You are able to encourage cooperation and teamwork among people who depend on each other and makes maximum use of the different talents of team to get the job done.
- You are able to understand how your own and teams work contributes to the organizational objectives and linking specific actions into a roadmap.
- You are able to have a forward looking view prioritizing own and team’s work in line with the organizational objectives in to a roadmap.
- You are able to communicate strategic team objectives in a way that encourages buy in.
- You are proactive in prioritizing work in line with key team or project deliverables but also are flexible enough to account for changing work priorities and deadlines.
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Exceptional communication skills with both written and verbal content.
Why Product Madness ?
Product Madness is so much more than just a Pool table and a foosball game.
We believe in an honest and transparent approach with our teammates. Company wide weekly Town Halls, All Hands and strategy meetings are just a few ways in which we encourage an open and honest path to achieving complete transparency.
Despite a pandemic, there isn’t a day where we don’t feel connected to one another.
With frequent events, workshops, giveaways, slack coffee and donut sessions we have definitely brought on our office culture to this new virtual world of zoom calls.
We also try to cater for all our staff’s needs – be that a freshly brewed cappuccino made by our professional barista in our free coffee shop or by providing a bountiful supply of tasty snacks to keep us refueled and buzzing.
We love to organise plenty of social get-togethers and action-packed activity days, be it slipping inside an inflatable bumper ball for a mad session of football zorbing or throwing caution to the wind and traversing giddy treetop rope courses at Go Ape. On top of these team-building activities, our lunch and learn workshops, not to mention the lavish Christmas and summer parties, foster that ‘work hard, play hard’ mantra. Our offices are based in the heart of the metropolises of London and Lviv, surrounded by an abundance of diversity and inspiration to keep those ideas flowing.
Our Values
People First
We have the deepest respect for our people and their well being. We know they are exceptionally talented and will always have a choice. We want them to re-choose us every day. We are committed to building a culture where each person's voice will always be heard and addressed.
MAD for More
Always improving, innovating and never settling for the existing. We push all boundaries with courage and ambition to become the world’s best games company.
Globally Inclusive
We are all Equal - regardless of the language we speak, where we live, our gender, religion or culture we come from. We want to build a global home, where everyone has the equal opportunity to make an impact.
Customer Focused
We always think from the customer's perspective - be it players or internal customers.Improving their experience and joy is what drives us. Every client's success is our big win!
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