Senior 2D Artist

8 Minutes ago • 5 Years +

2D Art

Job Description

As a Senior Artist in Toca Boca World’s content team, you’ll take a leading role in creating quirky items and colorful environments, in line with a fun and playful art style. You’ll be responsible for setting a high creative standard, shaping the artistic vision, and mentoring junior artists. You'll create high-quality vector art assets, patterns, and color schemes, collaborating with designers and programmers to ensure seamless integration with gameplay. This role requires embodying Toca Boca values of playfulness, inclusivity, and creativity.

Must Have:

Lead creation of quirky items and colorful environments for Toca Boca World.
Set high creative standards and ensure visual quality.
Collaborate with Lead Artist and Art Director on artistic vision.
Create high-quality vector art assets, patterns, and color schemes.
Integrate art seamlessly with gameplay, collaborating with designers and programmers.
Optimize 2D assets for performance.
Contribute to ideation, concept development, and creative workshops.
Mentor junior artists and guide them to project standards.
Present work, encourage feedback, and foster cross-discipline collaboration.
Act as a bridge between art team and other crafts for smooth workflows.
Embody Toca Boca values: playfulness, inclusivity, and creativity.
Experienced 2D Artist with strong portfolio fitting Toca Boca World art style.
Highly proficient in Adobe Illustrator.
Several years of experience in a game studio.
Confident in a senior role, demonstrating craft excellence and leadership.
Adapt personal style to Toca Boca Creative Principles.
Communicate and collaborate effectively across disciplines.
Fluent in English.

Perks:

Fun environment
Talented team
Creative and friendly studio
Diversity and inclusion
Hybrid working model

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Job Description

Do you want to work in a fun environment, alongside a talented team of artists, to deliver content for millions and millions of happy kids?

As a Senior Artist in Toca Boca World’s content team, you’ll take a leading role in creating quirky items and colorful environments, in line with a fun and playful art style that is constantly evolving. You’ll join a creative and friendly studio, where diversity and inclusion are core values!

What you’ll be doing

As a Senior Artist, you’ll be responsible for setting a high creative standard and ensuring that the visual quality of Toca Boca World continues to delight and inspire millions of players. You’ll work closely with the Lead Artist and Art Director to shape and maintain the artistic vision of the project, while also being a role model for your peers.

You’ll create high-quality vector art assets, patterns and colour schemes, and collaborate with designers and programmers to ensure that your work integrates seamlessly with gameplay. Optimising 2D assets for performance without compromising quality will be part of your craft, as will contributing to ideation, concept development, and creative workshops.

Your role goes beyond asset creation: you’ll mentor junior artists, sharing knowledge and guiding them to reach project standards. You’ll regularly present and communicate your work to the wider team, encouraging constructive feedback and fostering collaboration across disciplines. When needed, you’ll step into leadership responsibilities, acting as a bridge between the art team and other crafts to keep workflows smooth and efficient.

You’ll embody the Toca Boca values of playfulness, inclusivity, and creativity, ensuring that every piece of art produced serves as an example of the quality we aspire to.

Skills & Requirements

Is this you?

You are an experienced 2D Artist with a strong portfolio that fits the Toca Boca World art style, and you’re highly proficient in Adobe Illustrator. You’ve worked several years in a game studio and you’re confident about taking on a senior role where both craft excellence and leadership matter.

You bring individuality and personal style to your work, while adapting to the Toca Boca Creative Principles: diversity and unisex design, quirkiness, attention to detail, and a kid’s perspective.

You'll be part of a cross-functional team where you communicate and collaborate with teammates across disciplines on a day to day basis. You can follow creative directions, while also contributing your own ideas and sharing your process in a clear and structured way.

What we’ll be looking for in portfolio

A 2D Illustration style that can translate well into Toca Boca World (vector style illustrations)
Illustrations that show an understanding of colour and composition
Personal projects and your personal style
Your Adobe Illustrator skills

Your portfolio will play a key role during our selection process, so we recommend that you make sure it’s up to date and includes what we’re looking for.

This is us!

Play is in our DNA. At Toca Boca, we make playful, safe spaces where kids can have fun and feel free to be themselves. Over 60 million kids from all over the world play our games every month. Are you in? Let’s play.

Good to know!

This position is full time and based in our Stockholm studio with a hybrid working model (part office, part working from home). We apply a 6-month probationary period. You’ll need to be located in Sweden as we are unable to support relocation. As we’re an international company, with over 20 nationalities working here, and millions of users all over the world, you need to be fluent in English. Your application should therefore be in English.

About the company

Toca Boca develops digital games that capture the power of play and that are filled with fun and silliness that kids around the world can instantly relate to. Since our first product launch in 2011, we have released 46 apps that have been downloaded more than 444 million times the world over, making us the No. 1 mobile-first kids brand in the App Store. Our products focus on sparking kids’ creativity and imagination, creating opportunities for open-ended play.

With offices in Stockholm and San Francisco, Toca Boca is owned by Spin Master Corp., a global children’s entertainment company that creates, designs and manufactures a diversified portfolio of innovative toys, games, products and entertainment properties.