# Art Director

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Shanghai
**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 creates incredible entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans worldwide. Here, everyone is part of the story, part of a community that connects people globally.

As one of the largest sports entertainment platforms in the world, EA SPORTS FC is redefining football with genre-leading interactive experiences, connecting a global community of fans to The World's Game through innovation and unrivalled authenticity.

EA SPORTS FC Mobile Shanghai is a global team devoted to developing and operating a high-quality mobile football game experience.

### Job Summary

The Art Director reports to the Head of Art and leads the Art function across FC Mobile. This role is responsible for elevating visual quality, improving content creation efficiency, and enabling artists to deliver world-class football experiences at scale.

### Responsibilities

- Lead and develop a multidisciplinary Art team, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, continuous learning, and high-quality execution.

- Partner with Art Directors, Design, Engineering, and Production leaders to establish a shared vision for visual quality and ensure that creative goals can be delivered efficiently at scale.

- Drive improvements to content creation workflows, asset pipelines, and production processes that enable artists to work more effectively and consistently across the project.

- Champion visual quality across player authenticity, stadium presentation, environments, lighting, cinematics, and overall game presentation, helping teams achieve a cohesive and engaging player experience.

- Identify opportunities to improve team productivity through automation, AI-assisted workflows, new tools, and emerging content creation technologies.

- Guide teams through evolving production challenges by balancing artistic ambition, development efficiency, technical constraints, and business priorities.

- Stay current on industry trends, creative technologies, and best practices, translating new ideas into practical solutions that improve both product quality and team effectiveness.

### Required Qualifications

- 5+ years of experience in game development, with experience leading art, technical art, or content production teams.

- Proven ability to drive visual quality across multiple content disciplines, including characters, environments, presentation, animation, or cinematics.

- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving Art, Design, Engineering, and Production teams.

- Strong understanding of modern game content creation workflows and real-time game development pipelines.

- Demonstrated ability to improve team effectiveness through workflow optimisation, process improvement, or technology adoption.

- Strong communication, leadership, organisational, and stakeholder management skills.

- Proven track record of delivering high-quality products in fast-paced development environments.

- Strong learning agility and the ability to adapt to changing technologies, team structures, and product needs.

- Passion for sports or football.

### Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with football, sports, or live service game development.

- Passion for football and an understanding of player authenticity, broadcast presentation, and sports entertainment.

- Experience working with character scanning, motion capture, digital human workflows, lighting, rendering, or cinematic content creation.

- Familiarity with Unreal Engine, Unity, or other real-time content creation platforms.

- Experience adopting AI-assisted workflows, automation solutions, or emerging creative technologies.

- Experience leading globally distributed teams and external development partners.

### Benefits

Electronic Arts offers a comprehensive benefits package, including physical, emotional, financial, professional, and community well-being support. Benefits are customised to meet local needs and may include medical insurance, mental wellness support, pension plans, paid time off, family leave, free games, and more.

## Skills

### Required
- game development
- art direction
- team leadership
- content creation
- workflow optimisation
- technology adoption
- communication
- leadership
- organisational skills
- stakeholder management

### Nice to have
- football
- sports
- live service game development
- character scanning
- motion capture
- digital human workflows
- lighting
- rendering
- cinematic content creation
- Unreal Engine
- Unity
- AI-assisted workflows
- automation solutions
- emerging creative technologies

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