Lead Producer, Art Outsourcing
Job Summary
Job Description
Scopely seeks a Lead Producer, Art Outsourcing to join their Studio Operations team remotely in Canada. This role focuses on enabling game teams to produce high-quality art efficiently and cost-effectively. Responsibilities include streamlining company-wide processes, budget tracking, driving best practices, and fostering collaboration between game teams and central teams. The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of art production experience, familiarity with various art pipelines and production tools (like Shotgun/ShotGrid and Jira), and excellent communication skills. They will level up Scopely's Central Outsourcing Program, improve art outsourcing budget processes, provide advice to game teams, build and maintain knowledge databases, and collaborate with other central teams (Finance, InfoSec, IT, Legal). The role also involves finding and vetting new art outsourcing partners and producing regular reports on vendors, assets, and costs.
Must have:
- 8+ years Art Production Experience
- Project tracking software expertise
- Familiarity with art pipelines
- Experience with game teams and vendors
- Budget, contract, and PO management
- Excellent communication & organization
Good to have:
- Artist background
- Experience with Autodesk Flow
9 skills required
Job Details
Description
Scopely is looking for a Lead Producer, Art Outsourcing to join our Studio Operations team in Canada on a remote basis.
At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.
What You Will Do
You would join our Studio Ops Team and form part of the mission to enable our game teams to produce the highest quality art, reach cost reductions, and highest efficiency through art-production excellence and right partner choices. You would assist in creation and testing of new art strategies, vetting partner candidates, and drive optimization efforts of art- production pipelines to ultimately produce and deliver outstanding art to delight our players in an impactful way.
The responsibilities include participating in streamlining and maintenance of company-wide processes, budget tracking, driving adoption of best-known methods across the board, and contributing in information-share initiatives between all the game teams.
Great communication skills and diplomatic tactfulness are paramount in this role as a big part of the work is about building new bridges for collaboration and beneficial synergies between different game teams and central teams.
- Level up Scopely’s Central Outsourcing Program.
- Work with top games in all the important gaming platforms.
- Improve and execute art- outsourcing-budget processes.
- Provide made-to-measure advice to empower our game teams.
- Build and gather knowledge to our database.
- Create content and improve our intra information hub.
- Collaborate with other central teams like the Finance, InfoSec, IT, and the Legal teams
- Build and nurture game teams’ and partners’ relationships.
- Improve art production processes with both game teams and external partners
- Improve reporting tools.
- Proactively communicate with art production across the teams to ensure proper reporting.
- Identify and suggest areas for outsourcing cost optimization using data driven analysis.
- Produce periodic reports on art outsourcing vendors, assets, costs, efficiency etc.
- Conduct investigation and produce valuable content for Art Directors,Art Managers and Art Producers in the game teams.
- Find and vet new potential art-outsource partners.
What We’re Looking For
- 8+ years of Art Production Experience
- Wide issue & project tracking software experience
- Familiarity of wide variety of art-production pipelines
- Experience with standard productivity tools such as Google Sheets or Excel
- Experience with production tools such as Autodesk Flow Production Tracking (formerly ShotGun or ShotGrid), and Jira
- Experience in interacting with game teams and vendors
- Familiarity with invoices, contracts, POs, budgets, and technical systems
- Ability to work well across multiple projects
- Excellent communication skills / detail oriented
- Great organization skills
Bonus Points
- Artist background is considered a plus
At Scopely, we create games for everyone - and want to ensure that the people behind our games reflect that! We are committed to creating a diverse, supportive work environment where everyone is treated with respect. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and welcome individuals from all backgrounds to join us & embrace the adventure!
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and should you require accommodations during the application process please contact our Talent Coordinator team at Interview-Accomodations@scopely.com.
About Us
Scopely is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first video game company, home to many top, award-winning experiences such as "MONOPOLY GO!," “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “Stumble Guys,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” and “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” among others.
Scopely creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer™ experience across multiple platforms--from mobile, web, PC and beyond.
Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform Playgami that supports one of the most diversified portfolios in the games industry.
Recognized multiple times as one of Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies,” Scopely is a multi-billion-dollar business due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years.
Scopely has global operations in more than a dozen markets across Asia, EMEA, and North America, and is home to many internal game development teams, referred to as Scopely Studios, with additional game studio partners across four continents.
Scopely was acquired by Savvy Games Group in July 2023 for $4.9 billion, and is now an independent subsidiary of Savvy.
For more information on Scopely, visit: scopely.com.
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