Gram Games is the studio behind some of the most popular titles like 1010!, Six! and Merge Dragons! We do things differently here: we work in small self-managing teams, enabling you to have an incredible amount of ownership, autonomy and impact. We’ll never ask you to abandon your craft and just focus on managing others or workload.
At Gram everyone is expected to have a razor-sharp focus on what creates tangible impact: impact on their team, impact on their work environment and impact on the overall company strategy. If you are motivated by autonomy, ownership & collaboration, this is the job for you.
As an Art Director, you will act as a vision holder for our games, ensuring style and quality. Your role will be to help define the art style and build the visual identity including creating visual targets, style guides and documentation. The successful candidate will be able to cultivate original and creative ideas for products, services, or work processes across all art disciplines.
Requirements
What do you need from me?
- Mastery of art principles and how they are related to gameplay design, fiction and mechanics.
- Able to create original and industry inspiring art quickly and effectively.
- Defines art style guide for characters, environment and UI with creative leadership buy in.
- Seasoned manager, with the ability to lead, inspire and communicate across the entire art team.
- The ability to work cross-functionally with other disciplines to fully-understand requirements and deliverables, and effectively communicate those to the team.
- Setting the standard of written and verbal communication for the team to follow.
- Consistently striving to raise the bar for the game and teams art talent.
- Organizing art meetups. Guiding artists with drawing sessions, art talks, and announcements. Finding the right education programs or services for the studio. Enables art knowledgebase distribution within the studio
- 5+ year’s experience in a similar position (Gaming)
It would also be great if you...
- Have worked on multiple games launched
- Have experience in other casual/mobile games
- Have a degree in visual arts, animation, visual effects or a comparable degree
- Have agile scrum knowledge
- Have VFX and animation experience
- Have knowledge of Unity
Benefits
In return for bringing your expertise to this top priority role, we can offer some of the best benefits in the Games industry!
- Highly competitive salary
- Bonus plan, Zynga RSU’s (Restricted Stock Units), ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)
- Private medical care
- Awesome onsite chef serving breakfast, lunch, and lots of treats (naughty and nice)
- Relocation assistance for those moving to the UK
- Life insurance and a favourable pension scheme
- Healthcare cash plan including dental and optical coverage
- Yoga, massages, fitness classes
- Amazing tech to work with and consoles to play and relax with everywhere you look!
