Associate Art Director

2 Days ago • All levels • Art

Job Summary

Job Description

Wildlife Studios is seeking a talented and passionate Associate Art Director for its Live Games Tech Team in São Paulo. This creative leadership role involves defining and maintaining the artistic vision for mobile games, ensuring visual integrity and high quality within mobile hardware constraints. The ideal candidate is a proactive problem-solver, collaborative, and an excellent communicator, capable of inspiring and empowering the art department to create visually stunning games for a global audience. This position is crucial for the company's success and culture, requiring a curious, initiative-taking individual who thrives in a fast-paced, growing environment.
Must have:
  • Carry visual integrity throughout the project, ensuring consistency and quality within mobile hardware.
  • Proactively problem-solve and explore options to accomplish product goals.
  • Collaborate with Creative, Product, Design, and Technical leadership to build high-quality products.
  • Use excellent communication skills to keep partners updated and development teams aligned.
  • Work with Art Managers and Recruiting to build staffing plans.
  • Leadership and hands-on experience in concept, 3D modeling, VFX, animation, or illustration.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
  • Online portfolio showcasing ability to create and carry a creative product vision.
Good to have:
  • Experience working in a lead, supervisor, art manager, or art director capacity in game/film production.
  • Experience defining and aligning a multidisciplinary team behind a creative product vision.
  • Experience helping create and lead schedules for the art department.
  • Ability to manage artists in a dynamically changing game production environment.
  • Ability to work within a wide range of artistic styles and themes.

Job Details

Associate Art Director

We're looking for a talented and passionate Art Director to join Wildlife's Live Games Tech Team working from Sao Paulo.

Our Art Directors are creative leaders that create and maintain the artistic vision of our products at Wildlife Studios. The Art Director will be an inspirational leader, the torch-bearer for our art department who empowers our team to envision visually stunning mobile games for the global community.

We know that the work we do has a high impact on our company's success and culture. The right person for this position is curious by nature, and comfortable in a "take the initiative" environment, loves solving problems, and can thrive in a fast and growing business.

What you'll do

  • Artistic Constraints: You will carry the visual integrity throughout the entire project, ensuring consistency and highest quality within the boundaries of mobile hardware.
  • Solutions Oriented: You will demonstrate your ability to proactively problem solve and explore various options to accomplish product goals.
  • Collaboration: You will work closely with Creative, Product, Design, and Technical leadership to build high quality products that will resonate with the global gaming community.
  • Communication: You will use your excellent communication skills in a collaborative and diverse work environment to keep partners updated and development teams aligned.
  • Team Building: You will work with Art Managers and Recruiting to build staffing plans that help achieve both the short-term and long-range goals of the team.

What you'll need

  • Leadership and hands on experience in one or more art subject areas such as concept, 3d modeling, real-time VFX, animation, illustration, etc.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
  • A resume and an online portfolio showcasing your ability to create and carry a vision for a creative product.

More about you

  • Creative Leadership: You have years of experience working in a lead, supervisor, art manager or art director capacity in a game/film production environment.
  • Artistic Guidance: You have experience defining and aligning a multidisciplinary team behind a creative product vision by providing feedback, guidance, and asset critiques.
  • Organization: You have experience helping create and lead schedules that ensure accurate workflow throughout the art department.
  • Resourcefulness: You have an ability to run a group of artists in a dynamically changing game production environment.
  • Visual Range: You have an ability to work within a wide range of artistic styles and themes to compliment various genres of games.

About Wildlife

Wildlife is one of the leading mobile game developers and publishers in the world. We have released more than 60 titles, reaching billions of people around the globe. Here, we create and maintain games that will excite, intrigue, and engage our players for years to come!

Equal Opportunity

Wildlife is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.

We're committed to providing accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.

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About The Company

We're a Brazilian native global company and one of the leading mobile game developers and publishers in the world. We have released more than 60 titles, reaching billions of people around the globe. In early 2019, we decided to expand globally, opening offices worldwide. This way, we can reach more incredible people and unique knowledge to scale our development and delivery capacity. Today, we have offices in the United States, Ireland, and Argentina – besides, of course, Brazil. Being in Wildlife is about being part of something big! Our team is made of exceptional people who are dedicated to creating incredible things. We dream of being the best technology company to work for in the world and we aspire to develop games that will be remembered by generations.

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