Glu Mobile (NASDAQ: GLUU) is a leading creator of mobile games. Founded in 2001, Glu is headquartered in San Francisco with Bay Area studios in Burlingame and San Mateo, and international locations in Toronto and Hyderabad. With a history spanning over a decade, Glu’s culture is rooted in taking smart risks and fostering creativity to deliver world-class interactive experiences for our players. Glu’s diverse portfolio features top-grossing and award-winning original and licensed IP titles including, Cooking DASH, Covet Fashion, Deer Hunter, Design Home, MLB Tap Sports Baseball, and Kim Kardashian: Hollywood available worldwide on various platforms including the App Store and Google Play.

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The Role Involves

Creating art that inspires compelling gaming experiences for players.
Collaborating with Art Director / Art lead within the development team to visualize assigned game art elements such as look, feel, design, and color, and mood.
Building character and environmental designs for the game.
Illustrating concepts in 2D through sketches and paintings both traditional and digital and provides visuals to the development team.
Establishing a visual identity of the game, the target looks for the game within game design.
Concept art specialties/activities include:
Creating color concepts that may include marker sketches
Paintings and computer-generated imagery.
Quickly fleshing out iterations of ideas/concepts for discussion and makes changes to concepts based on artistic input/story changes.
Transforming concepts into storyboards.
Researching to inform concept designs

Scope Includes

Leading the creation of new art concepts for any game style
Effectively defining art issues and proposes solutions
Providing in-depth feedback on assets created from concepts
Following art direction, meets technical and artistic standards
Decides and acts regularly to have a moderate influence on the work of team members and other teams and assigned projects.
Mentoring and reviewing the work, and training less experienced personnel
Serving as a subject matter expert and "go-to" person for guidance in one discipline.
In-depth knowledge of / skills in the content areas of Technical tools such as Illustrator, Photoshop, as well as Unity engine, designing, sketching and painting, working on Mobile games, and working in multi-disciplinary teams

Knowledge / Skills / Experience:

Typically has 5 to 8 years of experience in creating digital art assets for computer-based games.
A Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts or equivalent.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. Glu is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace. We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences to ensure a diverse and inclusive workplace

What We Offer You

Work in a studio that has complete P&L ownership of games.
Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus scheme and Glu RSU's
Full medical, accident as well as life insurance benefits.
Catered Breakfast, Lunch,evening snacks, and Dinner.
Well stocked pantry.
Generous Paid Maternity/Paternity leave.
Employee Assistance Programs.
Frequent employee events.
Additional leave options for most employees.
Flexible working hours on many teams.
Casual dress every single day.
Work with cool people and impact millions of daily players!