# Art Director

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Vancouver, British Columbia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

Electronic Arts is seeking a video game Art Director to lead the visual experience across its Sims products. The successful candidate will guide a clear aesthetic vision and promote it across internal and partner organisations.

Responsibilities:

- Define, uphold, and communicate the visual direction and quality bar for the product across the art team and partners.

- Maintain visual guides to ensure cohesion and consistency across art disciplines during production.

- Collaborate with other Art Directors to deliver unified visuals across domains.

- Contribute to presentations on content strategy that align to product goals and the player experience.

- Uphold and communicate art priorities in sync with product goals to art teams.

- Support artists as a People Manager by creating the conditions for growth, clarity, accountability, and strong performance.

- Foster creativity, transparency, and collaboration across the team.

- Identify training and knowledge sharing opportunities that increase artist and lead capability.

- Drive objectives for the Art team to ensure growth, knowledge sharing, and foster a culture of transparency.

- Grow art leaders to oversee high-level goals and improve results, pipelines, and processes.

- Partner with Internal Outsourcing leadership partners to ensure quality, consistency, and delivery.

- Collaborate with Art Directors, Leads, Technical Art, and Engineering to refine pipeline, workflows, and drive innovation.

Qualifications:

- 7+ years of experience in game development and at least one shipped AAA title as an Art Director.

- Experience managing artists or other game developers.

- Demonstrated people leadership philosophy with experience developing talent.

- Experience establishing and pitching an art vision and guidelines.

- Experience translating product goals into a clear, executable direction.

- Understanding of all aspects of contemporary 3D game development: concept art, character modeling, prop modeling, environment modeling, lighting, animation, visual effects, and user interface design.

- Experienced in working with team partners to create content plans.

- Sense for visual storytelling, composition, form, and palette.

## Skills

### Required
- game development
- art direction
- people management
- visual storytelling
- 3D game development

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