You are an active practitioner in your craft and always aim to push the boundary for creating high fidelity art. You are passionate about mentoring and growing Art Directors as well as developing highly functioning art orgs and teams. You are able to respect the foundational work that has been done to date, but also have the ability to bring that style forward as we take advantage of more powerful technologies.
Are you who we’re looking for? Read on!
We are looking for a Studio Art Director to join Kabam Vancouver. In this role, you will work directly with our Art Directors and associated art teams to support the creation of the most engaging and rewarding product and visual experience for our players. You will need to be comfortable working within an established art style of licensed IP as well as developing original art styles for new games in the future.
You will contribute by:
- Ensuring unified visual quality of assets and presentation across all games from the Vancouver studio
- Representing the needs and desires of studio artists across art disciplines in process, tools, and planning discussions at the studio level
- Ensuring consistent and effective creation, maintenance and enforcement of the style guides and asset pipelines
- Interacting with developers of all disciplines, guiding and organizing the efforts of a team of artists across multiple areas and multiple projects to ensure that artists and art teams are working effectively with their development partners
- Mentoring, assessing skills and gaps, and coordinating artist assignments to projects in collaboration with the Studio General Manager, Executive Producers, Art Directors and the RMO group
- Establishing lightweight and effective best practices to ensure quality, consistency and timeliness of execution
- Driving the process to establish visual look development and feel for new products
- Mentoring and growing the project Art Directors’ skills and overall career path
- Recruiting and onboarding project Art Directors
- Providing art direction at the project level as needed
Your background includes:
- 10+ years working in the gaming industry, with multiple high quality AAA products under your belt, and at least one cycle in mobile gaming, with experience establishing art guidelines and vision for projects
- Proven track record of shipping high-quality games in a role where you were responsible for guiding artists, critiquing their work, and mentoring them, within a cross-disciplinary leads team
- An excellent eye for detail and proven expertise in carrying an art style over multiple products
- Experience working with high-profile entertainment brands and IPs
- Excellent skills at identifying existing visual styles, and ability to utilize them
- Highly collaborative with experience leading through influence
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to effectively present and share information across the organization
Excited by this opportunity? We invite you to apply and start the conversation with us.
Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made.
About Kabam
Kabam is a world leader of developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games for mobile devices. They merge consumer behaviour with the art of game design to create experiences that are enjoyed by millions of players across the globe. Each game has raised the benchmark in mobile gaming, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology and revolutionary gameplay to the console in every player’s pocket.
Kabam has partnered with leading entertainment brands like Disney, Hasbro and Universal to create mobile games based on some of the world’s most iconic franchises.
Kabam’s games have generated hundreds of millions of downloads including Fast & Furious 6: The Game, Fast & Furious: Legacy, Marvel Contest of Champions, Transformers: Forged to Fight, Shop Titans and Mini Guns. These games have also received multiple awards such as Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.
Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal, Charlottetown, San Francisco and Austin. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.
Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
