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Global Art Director | AAA Games | Austin

1518 Studios is growing its Art Team globally.

As an 1518 Art Director, you will have the opportunity to grown your region and build amazing art teams. The ideal candidate will posses remarkable leadership skills with the ability to share their knowledge and be a skilled communicator with excellent team management skills.

The projects in question are for video games on all platforms – PC, console, mobile. As a key member of the art development team, you’ll take charge of the initial concept and see it through to final delivery.

What you’ll be doing

• Work collaboratively with our clients and internal team to ensure projects are delivered within scope for artistic framework, schedule, and budget
• Manage a combination of seasoned creative talents internally as well as freelancers through coaching, training and sharing your knowledge and passion
• Defining game’s art style, while respecting the creative vision of the initial art direction
• Conveying expectations, both in terms of the level of quality and content (backgrounds, environments, characters), to the graphics team (lead artists, concept artists, environment artists, character artists, animation team) using visual references, concept art, production design, and atmosphere materials
• Develop high standards of quality and ensure consistent delivery of results
• Supervising and approving work completed by the team to ensure that the elements produced comply with the vision for the game, as well as meeting standards for quality
• Guiding the content development and ensuring the maintenance for flow of artistic tasks

Requirements

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years of experience as an Art Director or Art Manager on AAA console/PC projects - games published on mobile platforms are an asset
• Highly desirable to have previous experience in an Outsourcing Studio, dealing with projects from different clients, styles and across disciplines (2D Art, Real-Time 3D Art and VFX animation).
  
• Solid sales experience, ability to deal and support Business Developments & Production
  
• Excellent artistic and technical skill sets - concept art, illustration, high-resolution sculpting/modelling, UI design
• Expertise with 2D/3D next-gen production tools - knowledge of rendering engines and of compositing is an asset
• Technical expertise with the main graphics engines on the market - knowledge of iOS platforms is an asset
• Native level English.
• Passion for video games, with a strong interest for both stylistic and photorealistic art styles
• Demonstrated mastery of illustration, animation, and graphic design with versatility regarding backgrounds, characters and UI elements
• Possess excellent knowledge of the principles behind anatomy and design
• Possess a positive track record in terms of developing, mentoring, and managing multidisciplinary creative teams
• Excellent knowledge/reasoning when it comes to game development and the realities of production, both from technical and conceptual standpoints
• Tactful and a strong communicator, able to mobilize and inspire a team
• Critical with a keen sense of observation, and able to express your ideas
• Independent, rigorous and equipped with excellent organizational skills
• Able to adapt to different management/data-monitoring systems

Benefits

What we offer

• Permanent and full-time position with competitive remuneration.

• Paid personal and sick leave
• Flexible & remote work model
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your immediate family (Spouse, children, parents, siblings)
• Collaborative, dynamic and entrepreneurial culture

Who we are

PTW is a boutique games services company that provides custom solutions worldwide. We believe in accelerating innovation across the globe. We started more than 25 years ago and since then, have grown exponentially year-on-year to who we are today. Our history is in gaming, and we are still gamers at heart. In our time within the games industry, we have worked on over 1,500 titles across all genres and all platforms.

We have grown rapidly over the past few years and now have 16 sites spanning the globe. The PTW umbrella of companies includes SIDE, 1518, OR Esports, and Entalize. SIDE works at the cutting edge of interactive media as a provider of audio services for the global entertainment market. 1518 is known industry wide for world-class art and is also our in-house game and product development studio.

Basically, anywhere in the world, any platform, any genre, we can help come up with a custom solution to make games run better, get to market faster, and enhance the lives of more players.

In summary, we connect and bring fun to the world.