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External Art Director

We’re Hutch Games, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 300 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

The Role:

Hutch are looking for an External Art Director to join their team in London to deliver great visual direction on pre production development. You will be working on multiple exciting new IP’s.

As an External Art Director, you will act as a vision holder for a game, ensuring style and quality. Your role would be to define key art, present new ideas/visions to the team and create style guides and documentation.

We are looking for someone who is keen to work in an agile and lean team, working on visual direction, working closely with the game designer. You will be responsible for defining how the team grows.

As an External Art Director, you will be responsible for the new ideas and visions of the game, maintaining development production pipelines to allow us to build assets quickly, working with outsourced teams and artists to set the gold standards.

Working in small teams, autonomous and agile teams, making their own decisions, therefore your role will be highly impactful from day one. If you are looking for an opportunity to have a huge impact, and the ability to release games quickly and iterate, this is a great opportunity.

Requirements

• Previous experience working as a Lead Artist/AD on successful mobile titles
• Experience working on pre production
• Great communication and providing feedback and career development
• A strong understanding of a variety of skills with the ability to give direction such as: 3D UI, 2D
• Be competent with the required 3D and 2D software such as; Maya and Photoshop
• Be familiar with Unity and technical constraints/considerations

Responsibilities

• Be the dedicated Art Director for our new IP
• Creating Key Art, asset production in both 3D/2D
• Create documentation for internal and external teams
• Provide clear direction and feedback for internal and external Artists such as 3D, UI and Game Designers
• Help with Hiring for the team as it grows, including crafting briefs, interviewing and onboarding

Bonus Points

• Worked on mobile F2P titles
• Experience working on pre production, Key Art, Brand positioning
• Experience with ASO & Art Style testing

Benefits

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, central London with other offices in Dundee and Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with

• Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working 3 days per week (Everyone is working remotely until it is safe to go back into the office)
• Excellent salaries
• Private health care
• Access to mental health initiatives such as private mental health coaching
• Weekly Yoga Sessions
• Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
• Personal Project Development Days
• Free snacks and drinks
• Lots of social events, game launch parties, Friday night drinks and much more

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/