Art Directors at Riot oversee the quality and management of a team with a focus on Mission, Direction, and Cohesion. Your scope of responsibilities covers a wide range of initiatives. These responsibilities include overall culture, performance, and growth of your direct reports, and gaining alignment with other several discipline leads.
As an Art Director, you will provide art direction for an unpublished R&D game. We are looking for an Art Director who can set a strategy, build a team, provide an inspired creative environment, and can deliver an art style for a new game. You’ll collaborate with the Executive Producer to create an immersive game experience for the intended audience. You will identify strategic art resource needs and promote hiring for all art roles on the team. As a part of the leadership team, you’ll develop strategies and eliminate obstacles with other leaders to achieve broader product goals.
Responsibilities
- Establish and drive a vision that is inspired and aligned with the project goals
- Establish overall content quality standards
- Set product-wide art goals and timelines
- Collaborate with Executive Producer to ensure consistency between creative vision and art direction
- Be the voice for the artists at the executive levels of the team
- Champion the development of efficient art pipelines and art within technical performance targets
- Champion healthy project management systems that best support the art discipline
- Provide an ongoing high level execution strategy that blends a mixture of inhouse and external art resources
- Build, manage, lead, and mentor a team of artists
Required Qualifications :
10+ years experience developing art in the games industry4+ years of professional experience managing other game artists and art leadersProfessional experience establishing creative vision and strategyDeep knowledge of various art sub-disciplinesExperience developing a style and artistic vision, shepherding the vision through production and shipping, and directing an organization to execute on the styleExperience developing games on PC and / or consolesDesired Qualifications :
Passion for competitive PVP gamesExperience in managing a team through visual development of a new gameA portfolio that backs up your ability to set a marketable artistic vision