Principal Art Lead

Our Principal Art Lead provides direction to a team of professionals in bringing the artistic vision to reality resulting in the highest quality games on time and within budget. We are looking for someone who excels as a team member and strives to improve team and departmental performance.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Partner with Production to clearly understand the game design, provide artistic expertise, and plan resourcing needs.
• Schedule the project in liaison with Production, Senior Artists, and Software Engineers to ensure their team stays on schedule.
• Develop, refine, and communicate the artistic style of the game to their team of artists and outsourcing partners.
• Build an open and creative environment, where people are encouraged to learn, generate, and follow through on their ideas.
• Lead and coordinate the creative, feature, and technical documentation path and process within the project.
• Coordinate and conduct meetings with the art team on a regular basis to resolve artistic or technical issues expediently.
• Participate in the strategic investigation of techniques and methodologies that improve the quality and efficiency of art resources.
• Evaluate and engage external partners to meet the project’s creative goals and timeline.
• Establish, maintain, and enhance relationships with colleagues and external creative resources as needed.
• Conduct milestone, performance reviews, and 1:1s with each Artist.
• Identify problematic situations before they occur and offer solutions.
• Ensure company art practices are followed within their team.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Full project development cycle in an Art Lead-related role.
• High attention to detail with management and interpersonal skills.
• Expertise in Maya, Max, and/or other 3D Software.
• Experience with Unity, Photoshop/Illustrator.

If you are interested in joining HB Studios, please apply today with your resume and portfolio!

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