Second Dinner · 2 days ago
Senior Art Outsourcing Supervisor
Irvine, CA
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $160K/yr
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Responsibilities
Manage the end-to-end art outsourcing process, including sourcing, contract/pricing negotiations, budgeting, onboarding, and maintaining communication with external art studios and individual artists
Manage communications and provide feedback to artists and help maintain a strong creative relationship between external and internal art teams
Generate detailed documentation, visual reference, and examples of art asset production, procedures, and requirements to support the external vendors
Own the quality control over all incoming art assets, providing detailed feedback and approvals in order to deliver quality assets to the development team
Work closely with the art director and production team to determine outsourcing needs, pipelines, budgets and costs for art assets
Coordinate with external vendors to schedule and track incoming assets
Create new art pipelines from scratch as well identify, onboard, and manage new artists, including:
Sharing of requirements
Determining what pieces artists should work on
Discovering new art styles
Negotiating contracts
Providing feedback
File management
Qualification
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Required
Experience as an Art Outsource Manager or a similar role within the gaming or entertainment industries.
Clear and concise communications, leadership, and people skills.
In-depth understanding of the game development process and the ability to align art outsourcing activities with internal project milestones and deadlines.
Ability to manage multiple art pipelines across multiple delivery dates.
A creative eye for detail and a deep appreciation for visual aesthetics, ensuring the delivery of assets that align with our artistic vision.
Understanding of the visual style of card games and a passion to push it to the next level.
Proven problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically to address potential challenges and optimize the outsourcing process.
Highly organized, self-driven, and a great team player.
Knowledge of Marvel to help create content that the community will love.
Preferred
Experience in an art director or lead artist role.
Past experience creating AAA assets in a production environment for multiple platforms.
Understanding of Unity.
Experience working on card games.
Experience working on live service games.
Experience working on mobile games.
Programming experience.
Photoshop and Illustrator experience.
Benefits
Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans with Second Dinner paying 100% of premiums for employees and 75% for dependents for many plans
401(k) contribution with no waiting period
16 weeks paid parental leave with no waiting period
Home office improvement bonus
Paid Vacation & Sick time
Up to 10 BetterHelp sessions covered each benefits plan year
Remote-first with core overlap hours between 10AM and 4PM PT
Company Winter Holiday shutdown (Dec 25-Jan 1)
Company Summer Holiday shutdown (week of July 4)
Company Events - In-person Summer all-hands gathering, in-person holiday party, and virtual events throughout the year
Company
Second Dinner
Second Dinner is an award-winning independent game development studio that is here to make the most fun games in the world. Not super fun games.
Founded in 2018
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$130MKey Investors
Griffin Gaming PartnersNetEase
2024-01-08Series B· $100M
2019-01-03Corporate Round· $30M
Leadership Team
Jomaro Kindred
Art Director / Co-Founder
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