Art Director

Job Description

Art Director Multiple Locations: Finland, UK, France, Spain, Romania Remote Work Option:Yes

Electronic Arts Inc. is a leading global interactive entertainment software company. EA delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets.

We are EA

And we make games – how cool is that? In fact, we entertain millions of people across the globe with the most amazing and immersive interactive software in the industry. But making games is hard work. That's why we employ the most creative, passionate people in the industry.

The Challenge Ahead

Tracktwenty is Electronic Arts mobile game studio based in the center of Helsinki. The studio brought SimCity BuildIt to tablet and mobile and the game has more than 200 million installs to date. As well as growing SimCity BuildIt, the studio's passionate team of programmers, artists, designers, marketers, and analysts are working to create the next big hit to come out of Finland for EA Mobile.

Join us as Tracktwenty's next Art Director! As an Art Director, you'll work with our experienced team on the development of new stylized incubation projects and support SimCity BuildIt live service art needs.

Main Responsibilities:
• Reporting to the Studio GM, you will be accountable for Art Direction across all Art Disciplines (Concept, 2D, 3D, Tech Art, UI Art) on Track 20 incubation projects and SimCity Build It.
• Facilitate meetings, feedback reviews, and communication between our Artists and other disciplines.
• Promote visual performance improvement plans in collaboration with Tech and Design Direction.
• Work with our leadership team on Art strategy, operations, and optimizing Art execution.
• Guide the look and feel, draft style guides, and author art documentation for casual, stylized mobile games.
• You will coordinate between the team, internal and external partners on backlog, planning, pipeline processes, art production scaling, and working expectations.
• Sell our projects' visual direction to team members and partners.
• Art Leadership and people management: Work with artists on their career development and promoting the well-being of the art team.

Requirements
• 5 years of Lead or AD experience in video game development
• Expert in at least one major discipline within game art development (Concept art, 3d modeling, animation, etc.)
• Visual design skillset and understanding of modern game development
• Art team processes and asset organization
• People management
• Experience working on a live game
• Game art pipeline architecture and art production scaling
• A passion for playing and making awesome games!

Pluses
• Mobile game development

About EA

At Electronic Arts, we exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together talented people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We know that our strength lies in the diversity of our people. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow them to do the most impactful and rewarding work of their careers.

We put our people first. We provide comprehensive benefit packages with a focus on health and wellbeing to support your needs and help you balance your career and personal life. We provide access to dynamic and collaborative work environments, opportunities to connect and contribute through our Employee Resource Groups, and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free video games and so much more!

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-dy4363-18-188-20-56-42 in your application.