Jade Stems Studios is looking for an experienced Art Director to lead our team of artist and game designers to drive our art production. You will be leading modelers, concept artist and UI artist executing on our roadmap and ensuring the team is hitting deadlines and milestones. You will be the vision behind the entire art direction and work closely with the game designer to sculp how everything in the game looks. You will also be working closely with other team leads and other trades within the project, to ensure that the project guideline is followed. 

Jade Stems Studios is very much a startup studio and you will have to spearhead a lot of the production and SOPs to establish workable guidelines. 

 

Responsibilities

• Setting product vision, maintaining high standards regarding aesthetic and technical aspects of art content
• Working with lead designer to establish a project's vision and flow
• Supervising and support a team of artists with clear and consistent direction
• Managing the art team and ownership over its deliverables
• Fostering communication between art and other departments to execute the project's vision
• Helping maintain milestone and art schedules with the production team
• Hiring necessary art staff, training, and career direction for the art team
• Demonstrating a high level of creativity and originality in treatment of episodic titles
• Managing the schedules of concepts, animation, environments, character modelling, character setup, UI, FX and choreography for the project at hand
• Generating, updating and maintaining project and department roadmaps