Art Director – Toys for Bob

Toys for Bob is looking for an Art Director to help us inspire, conceptualize and develop bold, new visual directions for our games. As a director, you will establish aesthetic vision and steer the team’s growth and development. You will be the catalyst for inspiration and be a force multiplier for the art team.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

• Develop and articulate each game’s unique aesthetic vision and standards through illustrations, documents, or any means necessary.
• Direct concept artists to produce inspirational key art and model sheets for environments, props, characters, creatures and UI.
• Supervise, review and steer the development of assets across multiple art teams to schedule, budget, and high visual standards in close coordination with producers and other Art leads.
• Iterate closely with Design and Engineering teams to ensure all visuals support gameplay needs.
• Collaborate with publishing teams to create product and marketing assets.
• Support internal and social comms with inspiring art assets.
• Partner with studio leadership to grow the team through new hires and development strategies.
• Attract the best talent and external partnerships for multiple art teams across the globe.

Player Profile

• Strong understanding of art fundamentals
• Strong familiarity with modern art tools, techniques
• Able to communicate feedback quickly and flexibly through briefing sheets, diagrams, mockups, draw-overs, call outs or whatever best connects with the recipient
• Comfortably collaborate with distributed team members
• Create strong sense of purpose, community, and calm
• Lead by example
• Attention to detail
• Protects work-life balance

The ideal candidate will also have:

• Shipped game(s) as an Art Director
• Experience with live game production
• Experience leading multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience vetting and partnering with external support teams
• Able to iterate with technical artists to develop techniques and tools to achieve aesthetic aspirations and efficiencies
• Able to direct both photorealistic and stylized looks
• Able to pitch/present to executives and the press
• In the habit of incubating ideas for future pitches