# Art Director - Unannounced 3A Project

**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 is seeking an Art Director to lead the visual strategy for an unannounced 3A project in China.

The Art Director will report to the Head of the unannounced 3A title China team and oversee the localisation, culturalisation, and visual adaptation of the game to resonate with the Chinese market.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead the visual strategy and execution for the China version across all art disciplines

- Partner with the EA Korea base game core team to understand foundational art assets and drive localisation and cultural adaptation

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, external publishing partners, and internal stakeholders to ensure aligned creative goals and smooth asset integration

- Drive improvements to localisation workflows, asset pipelines, and production processes

- Champion visual quality and cultural authenticity across UI themes, monetisation content, 3D presentation, environments, and overall game presentation

- Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary Art team

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

Requirements:

- 12+ years of experience in game development, with a proven track record of leading multidisciplinary art, technical art, or content production teams

- Demonstrated ability to drive visual quality across multiple disciplines simultaneously

- Deep understanding of the Chinese gaming market, with proven experience in culturalising, localising, and adapting existing game visuals for Chinese players

- Experience leading cross-functional and cross-border initiatives

- Strong understanding of modern game content creation workflows, real-time game development pipelines, and live service adaptation processes

- Exceptional communication, leadership, organisational, and stakeholder management skills

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

- Passion for sports

Preferred skills:

- Direct experience with sports or live service PC online game development

- Bilingual proficiency (English and Chinese)

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

- Experience adopting AI-assisted workflows or automation solutions

## Skills

### Required
- game development
- visual strategy
- localisation
- culturalisation
- cross-functional collaboration
- leadership
- communication
- project management

### Nice to have
- sports game development
- live service PC online game development
- bilingual proficiency
- Unreal Engine
- Unity
- AI-assisted workflows
- automation solutions

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