Art Director

Art Director - 14868

Skillsearch has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and collaborative Art Director to join our client's welcoming and inclusive team. This full-time Art Director role is based in Sittingbourne and offers an attractive salary and benefits package, including remote working.

As an Art Director, you will push your artistic talent and vision, motivating and inspiring world-class teams in delivering stunning vehicles, realistic atmospheric worlds and believable characters as we immerse our players in a number of experiences. You’ll be collaborating with the development teams to ensure the game; simulation is technically being driven to get the best out of the engine. We would like you to lead the way in researching and developing new tools and technologies relating to art techniques to put the right tools in the hands of artists to give them creative freedom to deliver amazing final artwork.

In your first few weeks in this Art Director role, you can expect to:

- Manage and build teams of artists across all disciplines, from Character, Environment and World Building, including collaboration with external partners and outsourcers
- Guide and mentor artists ensuring team productivity and playing a key role in their own career development
- Deliver effective feedback across all art disciplines
- Facilitate and lead regular art build reviews
- Collaborate with the team to identify great ideas and steer them through the development process
- An understanding of art fundamentals, and multiple art styles
- The ability to adapt to and innovate new styles and techniques
- Experience across multiplatform and UE4 and UE5
- Proficiency in production software including 3DS Max, Maya, Blender etc

If you’re looking to impact and create change positively, you'll be rewarded with an excellent salary of up to £75,000, and a benefits package for your inclusive and committed approach.

Here at Skillsearch, we're a recruitment company. In the simplest form, this means we place people at new companies - but it's so much more than that. For the past 30 years, we've been busy helping people (like you) with sought after skills find jobs in the Games, Interactive and Enterprise Systems industries all around the globe. Our company comprises a team of dedicated consultants that work across various niche technologies, including Games, Virtual Reality, AR and XR, Workday, Oracle, Peoplesoft, and eCommerce. We are always exploring other cutting-edge markets. Follow us to see a few of the jobs we're working on, find out which events you can see us at, and keep up with news in the technology, gaming and interactive world. Welcome to Skillsearch

**Job Type**: Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 14868