We are looking for a passionate and experienced Art Manager to join our growing team in our Montreal, Canada office.
As an Art Manager you will responsible for the creative team, assignments, hiring, training, documentation, and visual quality of our casino games. You will be one of the central figure of our creative department and oversee the art, animation, and music development effort as a whole and guide the future of all our games. This full-time position requires seamless collaboration with the Creative Director, Product Owners, Lead Game Artists, and the game teams to deliver high quality casino games.
You are an Art Director, a Game Producer, a Lead Game Artist, or a Senior Game Artist looking for a bigger challenge. Developing exciting casino games is your passion. You have a solid track-record of managing creative teams with the successful production of impactful online casino games. You love great slot games and you want to help develop the highest-quality games in the industry.
We Want You! Join our team and let’s make great games together!
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Manage the creative department team of artists, illustrators, animators, and sound engineers
- Manage the creative department daily tasks, assignments, back-logs, sprints, reviews, to make sure the games are delivered on time per our game pipeline schedule
- Use Jira, work logs, and KPI reports to measure the team performance and resource capacity ensuring that team output is always optimal
- Initiate, manage, and conduct recruitment efforts and interviews for the creative department
- Set and share best practices, tools, quality standards, SOP’s, production pipelines, productivity, and workflows within the creative department, and identifying work process improvements
- Follow each game’s development workflow until release, make sure the final game is as good as it can possibly be and fulfil the Game Producer expectations
- Support Marketing and Sales Departments in their efforts to market and sell the games to our customers
- Ability to work under pressure
- Provide feedback to the company’s creative team
- Perform other tasks as required
ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE:
- 3+ years as a Creative Director, Art Director, Art Manager, Technical Artist, or Slot Game Producer
- BA/BS in fine art, illustration, graphic design, or equivalent working experience
- Strong track-record of leading slot game art with the successful production of impactful slot games
- Understanding online casino game art, with focus on optimizing games for all platforms, both regarding file size and performance
- Ability to adapt different art styles in doing characters, backgrounds, and symbols design
- Excellent knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite
- Excellent knowledge of motion design software, such as Spine 2D and After Effects
- Excellent understanding of typography
- Research, play, and study casino games to stay up-to-date with market trends and competition
- Highly organized, experienced in running multiple projects and delivering to tight deadlines
- Experience working with project tracking tools such as JIRA
- Strong English written and verbal communication skills
- Leadership attitude and not afraid to get your hands dirty
- Excellent teamwork skills and ability to adapt
DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE:
- Currently holding a position of Creative Director, Art Director, Art Manager, or Lead Game Artist at an established casino games studio
- Great understanding of casino games and real money gaming compliance, jurisdictions, trends, and regulatory bodies
- Self-motivated with a strong desire to learn and stay abreast of online casino game trends and developments/standards
- Bilingual (French and English) is an asset
- Experience in using Jira and / or other project management tools
- The role will be given for candidates who are able to relocate to Montreal
- Preference will be given for candidates with experience in producing online casino games
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