3D Environment Art Manager

PLAY, GROW and WIN

To be a part of Virtuos means to be a creator.  

At Virtuos, we harness the latest technologies to make games better and more immersive than ever before. That is why we pride ourselves in constantly pushing the boundaries of possibility since our founding in 2004. 

Virtuosi is a team of experts – people who have come together to share their mutual passion for making and playing games. People with the same enthusiasm for exploring new ideas and the constant drive to excel in their field. People who believe in earning success through dedication.

At Virtuos, we are at the forefront of gaming, creating exciting new experiences daily. Join us to Play, Grow and Win – together.

ABOUT THE POSITION

Responsible in managing, building and developing team, ensuring project’s quality and progress. Solving issues related to work and human resources. Details as below:

1. Team management: includes 2 parts: 

a. With Lead

- Assign task suitably with the ability of each art lead.

- Understand clearly leads’ strengths, weaknesses to utilize their strengths.

- Encourage Art Leads to train their projects’ knowledge and skills.

- Recommend and train potential artist to become an Art Lead (depending on team’s development).

- Participate in meetings with clients. 

- Be a key communicator between managers in team.

b. With Artist 

- Understand artist’s skills and working attitude. 

- Work closely with Lead and Producer in assigning suitable tasks for artist according to their skills and project’s requirement. 

- Connect team managers and artists.

- Create activities and motivate team in working, learning and developing themselves.

 
2. Team development: 

a. Training system 

- Based on current training platform, implement (or remove) training exercise to improve the platform based on job’s requirement.

- Evaluate artists’ ability through training exercise to adjust the timeline accordingly for each artist (increase and decrease exercise based on artist’s learning ability and work efficiency). 

- Work closely with External Training Team to ensure new artists’ quality meets production requirements (have less internal training time). 

- Develop team based on current and future needs.

- Participate in training team in required skills. 

- Research and evaluate market need to prepare human resource needed

b. Self-training

- Always improve to develop your own skills and ability in both art skills and leadership skills. 

- Participate in training courses recommended by managers.  

- Always improve expertise and vision in art perspective. 

- During management process, always try to evaluate situation on a neutral perspective and from the point of view of a leader. 

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3. Ensure project’s quality and progress:

a. Progress 

- Collect and analyze daily info from Producer and Lead. 

- Suggest solutions to ensure progress, assign artists suitably for projects.

- Take and directly handle some projects.

- On the other hand, be a backup art to check artwork if needed. 

b. Quality 

- Ensure project quality that meets the clients’ requirements and expectation.

- Find solution or workflow that adapts to project’s quality and timeline, in order to reach the best working efficiency. 

- Ensure high quality with least feedback as possible.

4. Solve problem

- Directly involve in solving problems related to project’s progress, quality or human resource. 

- Solve conflicts between manager vs manager, artist vs artist, manager vs artist.

5. Report and set up plan

- Report twice a month about team’s current situation or whenever there is any issue to discuss and suggest solutions.

- Suggest ideas, solutions regarding team development.

- Set up plan accordingly and discuss with HoP before taking action.

• At least 3 years of leadership experience in the video game industry, managing teams of “creative geniuses” as either a Lead Artist, Senior Artist or Art Team Leader with hands-on technical experience.
• Must have shipped a minimum of 1-2 AAA games.
• Mastery of common industry Software like 3D Studio Max or Maya, Photoshop, Zbrush, Substance Painter, Substance Designer.
• Knowledge of Unreal and Unity is required.
• Strong artistic aptitudes, ability to draw.
• Experience creating and optimizing art pipelines.
• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, communication, interpersonal, presentation, and mentorship skills.
• Great level of English communication is a must.