Art Director

We are looking for a video game Art Director to help lead the visual experience across our Sims products. You'll guide a clear aesthetic vision and promote it across our 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 to 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 our Art teams 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.
• An understanding of all aspects of contemporary 3D game development: concept art, character modelling, prop modelling, environment modelling, 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.

Benefits:

• Salary: $133,500 - $186,400 CAD per year
• Vacation: 3 weeks per year to start
• Sick time: 10 days per year
• Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child
• Extended health/dental/vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Retirement plan