Scopely is looking for a passionate, fun, talented and experienced art leader to guide the visuals of a mobile game and manage a team of artists. You will be responsible for generating inspiring and awe-inducing visuals in a highly agile and iterative game design and release process.

What you will do:

Drive strong creative vision for a casual mobile game .
Create world building imagery that lays out a visual roadmap and sets the visual target for the product.
Provide examples from shipped titles of work where they helped innovate the industry, genre or a licensed brand in the area of Art, Animation and/or UI.
Challenge and inspire other departments to develop industry leading graphics and animations.
Collaborate closely with the general manager to identify the visual needs and synthesize them into a consolidated vision.
Make sure to translate the visual targets into tangible benchmark assets to be used for production.
Drive the visual goals at both the beginning and end of the development process to validate that the visual goals are present in the product itself.
Provide strong artistic vision using 2D and 3D concept skills to communicate game design ideas and features to stakeholders and brands.
Create innovative and inspirational visual approaches to the UI art, collaborating with UX/UI to take flows and transform them into engaging 2d and animated mock-ups.
Document the visual themes and beats of the product and clearly communicate them to ensure aesthetic cohesion on the product.

What you will need:

Industry leading visual design and world building samples.
Expert sense of color, layout, draftsmanship, anatomy, motion, composition, graphic design, storytelling, font and typeface.
Expert knowledge of Adobe Photoshop.
Must have worked as Art Director on games or comparable entertainment industries.
Experience with outsourcing a must.
5+ years experience in game development (or equivalent).
3+ years experience providing visual direction on mobile games for Android and/or iOS up to and including live operations.

To be considered, please be sure to attach your portfolio link with your resume/CV. Thank you!

About Scopely:

Scopely is a leading mobile games company home to many top-grossing, award-winning franchises including Scrabble® GO, MARVEL Strike Force, Star Trek™ Fleet Command, Looney Tunes™ World of Mayhem, WWE Champions, The Walking Dead: Road To Survival™, YAHTZEE® With Buddies and Wheel of Fortune®: Free Play, among others. Scopely creates rewarding, immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer experience. Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform that personalizes gameplay at scale across one of the most diversified portfolios in the west. Recognized in Fast Company’s ‘World’s Most Innovative Companies’ and #2 on Deloitte’s ‘Technology Fast 500’ as one of the fastest-growing companies in North America, Scopely has achieved more than $1 billion in lifetime revenue by creating game experiences that are an important part of people’s lives. Scopely has global operations in Los Angeles, Barcelona, Boulder, Dublin (DIGIT game studio), London and Tokyo, with additional studios in seven countries across four continents. For more information, visit scopely.com.

Scopely is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, family or parental status, gender identity, veteran, or disability status, or other protected status.