Lead Artist
Lightspeed Studios - Los Angeles, California, United States, 90079Work at Lightspeed Studios
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Overview
The information below covers the role requirements, expected candidate experience, and accompanying qualifications.LightSpeed Studios - US-Los Angeles, United States of America
7 days ago - Apply
Work Mode:
Onsite
Responsibilities:
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.
Guide a growing art team as the project expands.
Set team’s development objectives and conduct regular 1-on-1 meetings with team members to assist with their career paths.
Lead and develop the art team, providing constructive art feedback, training, and coaching for both internal and external partners.
Foresee potential risks of our project and team; support the Art Director/Producer with evaluation and mitigation.
Collaborate closely with the production team to identify and explore new business opportunities from global insights, achieving a unified vision of product value development and revenue growth goals.
Team up with art discipline leads to help scope and schedule desired work, fostering and communicating the vision to the team.
Build and maintain dependency-driven asset schedules to ensure successful, on-time release of content to meet 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:
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.
Up-to-date knowledge of design trends and the monetization aspects 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.
Proven expertise in the monetization aspect of video games is preferable.
Ability to work in a 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.), and video game culture.
Strong interest in games and game development, with extensive understanding of games in multiple genres across all platforms, and working knowledge of industry-required art software.
Talent for promoting vision and methodologies, inspiring, and coaching others.
Great mastery of diverse art styles, open-minded, and 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. LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS has created over 50 games across multiple platforms and genres for more than 4 billion registered users. It is 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.
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