Art Outsourcing Manager (Contractor)

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • 3D Art

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Job Description

The Art Outsourcing Manager (Contractor) at Ready Player Me will oversee 3D art asset production for digital avatars. Responsibilities include managing relationships with external art vendors, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality work, reviewing and providing feedback on assets, tracking project progress, negotiating project scope and pricing, onboarding new vendors, implementing pipeline tools, troubleshooting production challenges, and collaborating with internal art directors. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in art outsourcing for games, film, or animation, strong 3D art production pipeline knowledge, excellent communication and negotiation skills, proficiency in project management tools, and a passion for digital avatars and gaming.
Must have:
  • 5+ years art outsourcing experience
  • Strong 3D art pipeline understanding
  • Excellent communication & negotiation
  • Project management tool proficiency
  • Quality assurance and high standards
Good to have:
  • Digital collectibles knowledge
  • Startup/scaleup experience
  • Gaming culture understanding
  • Maya, Blender, Substance Painter
Perks:
  • Remote-first work environment
  • Personal development budget
  • Flexible days off
  • Wellbeing budget
  • Company retreats
  • Flexible working hours
  • Competitive salary with equity options
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Who we are 

There are millions of virtual worlds people visit every day to play games, socialise, and collaborate. Today, most of those worlds are closed and disconnected walled gardens. We are on a mission to build bridges between virtual worlds.

Product

Ready Player Me is a cross-game avatar platform for developers, players, and content creators. We give players an avatar that travels with them across thousands of experiences and becomes their virtual identity. For game developers, we are an end-to-end avatar system that saves development time and helps them monetize better. Our avatar tools are used by 9000+ games, apps, and leading brands.

Built by Ready Player Me, PlayerZero is an avatar collectible platform that lets users create, customize, and evolve their digital identities across games, social media, and collectibles marketplaces. Our mission is to provide users with a singular, consistent identity that seamlessly integrates across multiple games and virtual worlds, enhanced by digital collectibles that enable avatars to grow and level up.

Our vision is to build bridges between virtual worlds, creating a truly interconnected experience for users. PlayerZero combines cutting-edge avatar technology, the cultural relevance of digital collectibles, and a commitment to an open, decentralized network of virtual worlds to shape the future of digital identity.
 

Present and future

We are backed by top investors like Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Plural, David Baszucki, co-founder of Roblox, Justin Kan, co-founder of Twitch, Sebastian Knutsson & Riccardo Zacconi, King Games co-founders, Konvoy Ventures, Endeavor and Samsung Next among many others. 

Our team has built avatar systems for companies like Tencent, Huawei, HTC, and Verizon since 2014. We are working with well-known brands like Warner Bros, Adidas, Tommy Hilfiger, Dior, New Balance, and RTFKT.

With more than 9,000 developers and millions of users, Ready Player Me is the world's leading avatar platform.

Join us on this exciting journey and play a key role in shaping the future of self-representation in games and virtual experiences while building bridges between virtual worlds.



About you: 

We are looking for a highly organized, experienced, and hands-on Art Outsourcing Manager to oversee the production of 3D art assets for our cutting-edge digital avatars. In this role, you will be responsible for managing relationships with external art vendors, ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality work, and upholding our artistic standards at Ready Player Me.

Your daily adventures will include:

  • Communicating daily with external art vendors to ensure smooth collaboration.
  • Reviewing and providing feedback on art assets to maintain quality.
  • Tracking project progress and managing deadlines consistently.
  • Negotiating project scope and pricing on a weekly basis.
  • Onboarding new vendors periodically (monthly or quarterly).
  • Researching and implementing new pipeline tools as needed (typically quarterly).
  • Troubleshooting production challenges whenever they arise.
  • Collaborating with internal art directors on style guides to uphold artistic standards.


What you bring:

  • 5+ years of experience in art outsourcing for games, film, or animation, with a proven track record of successfully managing outsourced art projects.
  • Strong understanding of 3D art production pipelines and workflows, along with familiarity with various art styles and techniques.
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to clearly articulate feedback and expectations.
  • Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.
  • Proficiency in project management tools like Trello or Jira. Knowledge of 3D software such as Maya, Blender, or Substance Painter is a plus, as is comfort with version control software like Plastic or Perforce.
  • A keen eye for quality assurance, with the ability to maintain high standards and address issues proactively.
  • A genuine passion for digital avatars, gaming, and emerging technologies such as collectibles and virtual worlds.

As a bonus, it would be awesome if you:

  • Have an understanding and knowledge of digital collectibles and Web3 standards and necessities.
  • Have experience working in a startup or scaleup environment.
  • Love to play games and understand gaming culture.

Why you’ll love it here:

🌏 Work as a remote-first team anywhere in the world or in our Tallinn, London or Berlin hubs. We currently already have people in 16 countries.

📚 Personal development - exciting challenges mean a big impact. To reach the next level, we offer a personal learning budget.

💤 Flexible days off - we work hard, but it’s important for us to make sure people take time out to recharge.

Boost your wellbeing with our recharging budget, nurturing both your physical and mental health.

✈️ Biannual company retreats and team gatherings in our hubs; our Summer Days are legendary.

🕟 Flexible working hours - Results are more important than hours on the clock: we trust you to maintain your work-life balance.

📈 Competitive salary with equity options.

What’s life like at Ready Player Me?

At Ready Player Me, expect to make an impact and be a part of an ambitious, passionate, collaborative and caring team. We're here to do the best work of our lives, and build a world, both here and in the Metaverse, that we can be proud of. Our focus is on working together to build outstanding experiences for our users, at the forefront of change and innovation, as the Metaverse expands. We are a trusted partner, and we continuously strive to learn together. We always seek to be smarter tomorrow than we are today. Also check out our values.

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