Job Description & How to Apply Below
In this role, you will lead and elevate the artistic direction across multiple game development projects, ensuring high-quality visual output across 2D, 3D, animation, and related disciplines. You will be responsible for guiding distributed art teams, maintaining creative consistency, and ensuring that production aligns with both artistic and technical standards. The position combines hands-on artistic judgment with leadership responsibilities, including team development, hiring, and performance oversight.
You will collaborate closely with production, design, and technical teams to ensure smooth execution across complex pipelines. A key part of your impact will be shaping team structure, workflows, and resource planning to support scalable and efficient art production. This is a high-responsibility role in a fast-moving, fully remote game development environment.
Accountabilities
Lead the artistic direction and ensure visual quality, consistency, and coherence across multiple game projects
Evaluate and provide feedback on artwork across 2D, 3D, animation, and related creative disciplines
Oversee art production pipelines and ensure alignment between artistic, technical, and production requirements
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including design, production, and engineering to ensure project alignment
Manage hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and development of artists across multiple teams
Define team structure, workload distribution, and resource allocation to support production needs
Plan and manage departmental budgets, staffing requirements, and operational capacity
Monitor performance, identify gaps, and implement improvements to ensure efficiency and stability
Ensure adherence to production best practices, workflows, and platform-specific constraints
Provide clear, actionable feedback and resolve artistic or production challenges proactively
Requirements
5+ years of experience in game art production with leadership responsibility on shipped projects
Strong expertise in evaluating artistic quality across 2D, 3D, and animation disciplines
Solid understanding of game art production pipelines and cross-functional development workflows
Proven experience in team leadership, hiring, mentoring, and performance evaluation of artists
Strong background in task scoping, workload planning, budgeting, and resource management
Excellent communication and presentation skills with ability to justify and defend creative decisions
Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multiple projects and teams simultaneously
Experience collaborating closely with production, design, and technical stakeholders
Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Trello, or Figma is a plus
Experience with game engines such as Unity or Unreal is an advantage
Benefits
Fully remote work with the ability to work from anywhere globally
Flexible working hours and strong autonomy in daily schedule management
20 paid vacation days annually
Opportunity to work on high-profile game projects played by millions of users
Collaborative and supportive team culture built on trust, care, and creativity
Strong professional growth opportunities in a fast-scaling game development environment
Exposure to top-tier clients and globally recognized gaming franchises
Inclusive, people-first culture with emphasis on work-life balance and respect
How Jobgether Works
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
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