Senior Outsourcing Supervisor, 3D Characters

1 Month ago • All levels • 3D Art

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Outsource Supervisor for 3D characters, you will be focused on pipelines, communication, process, relationships, and feedback. Your responsibilities include crafting briefs, managing planning documents, and tweaking assets. You'll provide timely and constructive feedback to external partners to ensure their work is consistently on target. The role also involves ensuring smooth internal and external communications and ensuring outsourced assets are game-ready. You will also be responsible for ensuring all relevant content is delivered to specification and that it is easily accessible for internal review and in a game-ready state. If required, make any minor tweaks to ensure it meets requirements. Ensure the internal team is kept well-informed about all relevant external production, highlighting issues that may affect delivery, in a quick and effective manner. 
Must have:
  • Proficiency in crafting high-quality 3D characters and props.
  • Strong understanding of industry-standard art pipelines for 3D characters or cosmetics.
  • Knowledge of rigging and animation pipelines.
Good to have:
  • Experience with Unity game development.
  • Technical skills (shader creation, particles, VFXs, and/or procedural content creation tools).

Job Details

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Job Description:

At Blizzard, we craft genre-defining games and legendary worlds for all to share. Through unparalleled creativity and storytelling, we create immersive universes and iconic experiences that are beloved across platforms, borders, backgrounds, and generations – only made possible by building a work environment that nurtures the artistry of game development and unleashes the aspirations of our people.

As a Senior Outsource Supervisor for 3D characters, you’ll be focused on pipelines, communication, process, relationships, feedback, and all other things connected to successful outsourcing of 3D character cosmetic content.

Working with art and production Leads, you’ll be there to support our external and internal communications, ensuring everything runs smoothly, and getting our outsourced assets into a "game ready" state. Your responsibilities will range from crafting briefs and managing planning documents to tweaking incoming assets for the game. You’ll also be providing timely, precise, and constructive feedback to our external partners to ensure their work is consistently on target.
 

We’re a close but inclusive team that welcomes new members with open arms. We care deeply about the games we build and how we create them. We can't wait to meet you!

We're hiring in Barcelona, Spain. Applications must be submitted in English.

Responsibilities 

  • Work closely with the art and production leads to support the external production of 3D character content for the game, ensuring all content is delivered on time, at quality, and to specification.

  • Create creative briefs and technical documentation, ensuring they clearly define the work that is needed to be carried out by our vendors.

  • Provide accurate, well-constructed, and timely feedback to vendors, ensuring they can work at their best without bottlenecks or blockers.

  • Ensure all relevant content is delivered to specification and that it is easily accessible for internal review and in a game-ready state. If required, make any minor tweaks to ensure it meets requirements.

  • Ensure the internal team is kept well-informed about all relevant external production, highlighting issues that may affect delivery, in a quick and effective manner. 

  • Thoroughly understand all relevant content pipelines, proactively looking for gains in efficiency or quality, with the aim of then working with the team to improve the way we work.

Minimum Requirements

  • Proficiency in crafting high-quality 3D characters and props, with a great understanding of efficient UV layout, PBR pipeline, and 3D topology.

  • Strong understanding of all industry-standard art content pipelines, primarily when it comes to making 3D characters or cosmetics.

  • An understanding of rigging and animation pipelines.
     

Knowledge & Skills

  • Strong eye for detail with an ability to understand an art style and to identify what is required to get that content into a game-ready state.

  • Great communication skills, understanding how to articulate complex visual concepts.

  • Knowledgeable in the technical aspects of creating in-game 3D characters, covering the full end-to-end pipeline, and adept at implementing art into a game efficiently with a focus on clean, structured, and optimized processes.

  • In-depth knowledge of industry standard software for the creation of 2D and 3D art as well as any industry-relevant game engine and game development environment.

Key Attributes

  • A passion for making high-quality games in a cross-discipline, collaborative team.

  • A champion for the value of collaboration and bringing great people together.

  • A natural problem solver, keen to do what’s right for the production or content, and the game as a whole. 

  • A proactive contributor, keen to learn and develop your skills and to share your knowledge with the team.

  • Excellent skills in both written and oral communication.

  • Highly structured and organized, someone who is not phased by having many things happening at once.
     

Nice to have

  • Experience with Unity game development.

  • Technical skills (shader creation, particles, VFXs, and/or procedural content creation tools).

Your Platform

 

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards. Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle.net®, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

 

Our World

 

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

 

Our ability to build immersive and innovate worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment.  We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

 

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

 

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

 

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.

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We bring moments of magic to hundreds of millions of people every single day. We create unforgettable games that are loved around the world. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other, and love for our players. Who we areKing is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games, including franchises such as Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch. We have 249 million monthly active users as of fourth quarter 2019 across web, social and mobile platforms. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq ATVI) in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the company. Our passionMaking great games is incredibly challenging but we’ve proven it can be done… and we see a world of possibilities ahead.

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