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Tencent · 2 days ago

Quantum Studio - Lead Artist

Bellevue, WA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$108K/yr - $221K/yr

4+ years exp

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Responsibilities

As the Art Lead, you will work closely with a top-notch team( including game designers, technical artists and programmers, etc) to help develop the artistic vision of the game, help set up and optimize our overall art pipeline from the top-down and the bottom-up, and guide a growing art team as the project expands.

Setting team’s development objective, regular 1 on 1 with team members to help them with their career path;

Leading, and developing the art team, providing constructive art feedback, training, and coaching both internal and external partners;

Foresee the potential risk of our project and team, support the Art Director/Producer with evaluation and mitigation;

Work in close collaboration with production team to identify, explore new business opportunities from global insights, achieve the unified vision of product value development and revenue growth goals;

Team up with art discipline leads, help scope and schedule the desired work, foster and communicate the vision to the team. Build and maintain dependency driven asset schedules to ensure successful, on time, release of content, to the Game Art Quality bar;

Be responsible for final delivery, and quality control in accordance with the project's artistic direction, technical restrictions, and deadlines;

Create a working environment friendly and constructively for cross-team collaboration, ensuring a productive internal workflow and beneficial relationships with internal/external partners;

In collaboration with the Art Director/Producer, evaluate staffing requirements and be involved in the artists’ recruitment process.

Qualification

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Game DevelopmentMonetizationArt FundamentalsArtistic CultureVideo Game CultureGlobal Market AwarenessPlayer Behavior AnalysisAesthetics TrendsArt Software ProficiencyPromotion SkillsCoaching SkillsArt Style MasteryProblem-SolvingCollaborationTime ManagementCreativityLeadershipCommunicationAdaptabilityArtistic ExpertiseDesign Trends KnowledgeMarket Analysis

Required

Minimum 4+ years of game development experience, with 1+ years of management experience, and a core lead credit in at least two games that have been successfully shipped

The proven expertise in the monetization aspect of video games is preferable

Proven ability to work in highly collaborative, interdisciplinary, iterative environment, while delivering under deadlines and time constraints

Deep understanding of art fundamentals (lighting, composition, architecture, anatomy, proportion, etc.), artistic culture (photography, movies, books, comics, etc.) & video game culture

Eye for Global Market, Player Behavior, International Trend Aesthetics

Strong interest in Game and Game Development, extensive understanding of games in multiple genres across all platforms, and working knowledge of industry required art software

Talent for promoting vision and methodologies and inspiring and coaching others

Great mastery of diverse art styles, open-minded, receptive to new ideas and fresh perspective

Preferred

The demonstrated leadership of independently managing and running a full healthy and productive art development pipeline

Craft expertise for artistic benchmarks and asset creation/production for premium content and thematic updates

An up to date knowledge of design trends and the monetization aspect of video games

Conduct and communicate competition and market watch to stay on the edge of the industry’s monetization practices and trends

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Basic Life Insurance

401(k) Plan

Vacation Leave

Paid Holidays

Floating Holidays

Paid Sick Leave

Company

Tencent

Glassdoor

4.0

Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services.

Founded in 1998

Shenzhen, Guangdong, CHN

10,001+ employees

https://www.tencent.com/en-us

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