Technical Art Director

Job Description

At the core of Technicolor Games' success are talented, passionate gamers. We pride ourselves on creating a collaborative, empowered, and creative environment. Whether it's helping clients in the early stages of game design or creating award-winning campaigns, we're always here to help. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to connect in meaningful ways with our clients and their players.

Creatively and technologically speaking, no one beats Technicolor Games when it comes to delivering high-end content and immersive experiences together with video gaming marketing leaders such as Activision, EA, Gameloft, and Ubisoft.

We're looking for a Technical Art Director, based out of India or Europe, who will build, manage and grow the technical team supporting our day-to-day operations, reporting to the Head of Art Production. You will work closely with the Games creative leadership (eg Asset Supervisors, 2D Supervisors and etc), HODs to identify workflows and tools and as well our existing and potential partners to support security and technical discussions.

A key creative-oriented leader in charge of the runtime architecture of AAA game features, development strategy of projects and performance monitoring of the games while identifying and applying best practices to continuously improve and streamline the art production process.

Responsibilities:
• Manage, train and build the Games Technical team in accordance with the Technicolor Games' global needs.
• Report project risks in a timely manner, propose mitigations and escalate risks when needed
• Manage communication with partners related to onboarding, project progress, security and technical matters.
• Undertake technical due diligence for new business opportunities
• Propose and oversee the development of new tools, workflows or techniques as required for successful and efficient delivery of games.
• Write documentation and training material to educate artists and establish best practices.
• Implement solutions for inefficiencies in the production pipeline.
• Assign projects to the technical team and monitor performance, workflow and techniques used in the team.
• Work closely with the art production team to share technical knowledge and best practices and help drive a culture of leadership, proactivity, ownership, and accountability
• Research cutting-edge technologies for application within the games industry

Qualifications
• 10 years+ experience working as a professional technical artist used to development of tool kit
• 5 years+ of leadership experience managing large and fast-growing teams in the games service industry
• Recent experience in console development with at least one shipped title
• Expert knowledge in one or more major functional areas of game development, such as rendering, engine systems, tools and pipelines, and backend
• Good knowledge of programming languages and software engineering practices
• Exceptional management and communication skills
• Able to manage a time-sensitive workload in an urgent and extremely organized manner
• Strong attention to detail

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gm9v03-3-22-61-246-42 in your application.