Art Lead, Concept Art - Valorant, Characters

Job Description

Concept Art Leads at Riot support the quality and performance of their team through their craft expertise. Your scope of responsibilities include partnership with team leadership, an understanding of audience resonance, team culture and performance, growth of your direct reports, and leading your team on successful execution of VALORANT's character art style and quality.
As Manager, Concept Art for Characters on VALORANT, you are responsible for concept art on Agents from initial ideation through to production, ensuring their cohesion in style and quality supports VALORANT's art direction and gameplay. You will partner closely with Art Leads to ensure your team collaborates effectively across disciplines to deliver iconic, creative, and resonant Agents that amplify gameplay for players. You will report into the Character Art Director.

Responsibilities
• Actively collaborate with team leads to develop a cohesive vision for each Agent that ensures audience resonance, and successful integration with the existing cast through personality, visual aesthetics, and gameplay
• Lead, manage, and mentor a high performing, healthy, and collaborative concept art team
• Work with production to ensure your team's timely and successful delivery of products
• Maintain and contribute to artifacts that inform, align, and empower teams to successfully create character concept art in the VALORANT style
Required Qualifications
• 3+ years of experience leading character focused concept art teams in game development
• Strong understanding of human anatomy, form, and color theory
• Ability to create stylized characters through past professional or personal work samples
Desired Qualifications
• Has shipped characters for at least 1 First Person Shooter
• Knowledge of the VALORANT IP
For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

• (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $166,600.00 - $232,800.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
• (Mercer Island only) Base salary range between $166,600.00 - $232,800.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gmn30m-18-118-82-141-42 in your application.