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Senior Concept Artist

Glu Mobile (NASDAQ: GLUU) is a leading creator of mobile games. Founded in 2001, Glu is headquartered in San Francisco with Bay Area studios in Burlingame and San Mateo, and international locations in Toronto and Hyderabad. With a history spanning over a decade, Glu’s culture is rooted in taking smart risks and fostering creativity to deliver world-class interactive experiences for our players. Glu’s diverse portfolio features top-grossing and award-winning original and licensed IP titles including, Cooking DASH, Covet Fashion, Deer Hunter, Design Home, MLB Tap Sports Baseball, and Kim Kardashian: Hollywood available worldwide on various platforms including the App Store and Google Play.

Cooking DASH, Covet Fashion, Deer Hunter, Design Home, Tap Sports, Glu, and Glu Mobile are trademarks of Glu Mobile Inc.

The Role Involves:

• Creating art that inspires compelling gaming experience for players
• Collaborating with Art Director / Art lead within the development team to visualize assigned game art elements such as look, feel, design, and color, and mood
• Building character and environmental designs for the game
• Illustrating concepts in 2D through sketches and paintings both traditional and digital and provides visuals to the development team
• Establishing a visual identity of the game, the target looks for the game within game design
• Concept art specialties/activities include: Creating color concepts that may include marker sketches & Paintings and computer-generated imagery
• Quickly fleshing out iterations of ideas/concepts for discussion and makes changes to concepts based on artistic input/story changes
• Transforming concepts into storyboards
• Researching to inform concept designs

Scope Includes:

• Leading the creation of new art concepts for any game style
• Effectively defining art issues and proposes solutions
• Providing in-depth feedback on assets created from concepts
• Following art direction meets technical and artistic standards
• Decides and acts regularly to have a moderate influence on the work of team members and other teams and assigned projects
• Mentoring and reviewing the work, and training less experienced personnel
• Serving as a subject matter expert and "go-to" person for guidance in one discipline
• In-depth knowledge of / skills in the content areas of Technical tools such as Illustrator, Photoshop, as well as Unity engine, designing, sketching and painting, working on Mobile games, and working in multi-disciplinary teams

Knowledge / Skills / Experience :

• Typically has 5 to 8 years of experience in creating digital art assets for computer-based games
• A Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts or equivalent
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. Glu is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace. We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences to ensure a diverse and inclusive workplace

What we Offer -

Work in a studio that has complete P&L ownership of games

Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus scheme and Glu RSU's

Full medical, accident as well as life insurance benefits

Catered Breakfast, Lunch, evening snacks, and Dinner

Well stocked pantry

Generous Paid Maternity/Paternity leave

Employee Assistance Programs

Frequent employee events

Additional leave options for most employees

Flexible working hours on many teams

Casual dress every single day

Work with cool people and impact millions of daily players!