Lead Artist Job at Lightspeed Studios in Los Angeles

As the Art Lead, you will work closely with a top-notch team (including game designers, technical artists, and programmers) 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.

What you will do:

• 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 and 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 friendly and constructive working environment 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.

What you bring:

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

Requirements:

• 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.
• You own the proven ability to work in a highly collaborative, interdisciplinary, iterative environment, while delivering under deadlines and time constraints;
• You have a deep understanding of art fundamentals (lighting, composition, architecture, anatomy, proportion, etc.), artistic culture (photography, movies, books, comics, etc.), and video game culture;
• You have an eye for Global Market, Player Behavior, and International Trend Aesthetics;
• You have a 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;
• You are talented in promoting vision and methodologies and inspiring and coaching others;
• You have great mastery of diverse art styles and are open-minded, receptive to new ideas and fresh perspectives;

Location: California

The base pay range for this position in California is $135,500 to $247,750 per year. Actual pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on payment, relocation package, and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, as well as other medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the specific position offered.

LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS is a leading global game developer, with teams across China, United States, Singapore, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, and United Arab Emirates. We have created over 50 games across multiple platforms and genres for more than 4 billion registered users. We are the co-developer of the worldwide hit PUBG MOBILE (co-developed with KRAFTON, Inc.).

LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS is made up of passionate players who advance the art & science of game development through great stories, great gameplay, and advanced technology. We are focused on bringing next generation experiences to gamers who want to enjoy them anywhere, anytime, across multiple genres and devices.