Directeur Artistique

Full Time] Art Director - Live Ops at A Thinking Ape (United States) | BEAMSTART Jobs Art Director - Live Ops
Full Time
Remote Work
A Thinking Ape builds communities through mobile games with emergent social play and original IP. We released our first game in 2009 and have been profitable and growing every year since. We are a bottom-up driven company with small teams that have a big focus on ownership and data driven decision making. Our portfolio of games are growing. We are scaling our marketing team and entering new markets to capitalize on this growth and bring our games to more players.
There, you will lead a team of artists and other creatives on one of our live games which include Kingdoms of Heckfire and Party in my Dorm. Team Leviathan leads the industry in supporting and growing games, some of which have occupied the Top Downloaded and Top Grossing charts historically. We’ve launched huge new features, tried some crazy interesting things, and taken creative risks. As the creative lead, you will be part of this strategy and have the opportunity to take your own big swings with the team in order to elevate our games to the next level. 
As our games continue to grow, so does our game community’s insatiable desire for new and interesting content. We need your creative vision and leadership to grow the ever expanding titles that our players know and love. Whether it is adding exciting new customization features, or designing a team of C’thulu dragons to terrorize our players, our need for engaging new content continues to expand with our success. Working with our talented game artists, game designers and engineers, you will drive the creative vision and bring it to life across multiple titles. 
You are responsible for the overall visual style of the creative
Oversee and mentor your team on the creation of assets and promotional material that push the artistic quality bar
Develop fun new content, events, narrative and promotions with the team and coordinate planning and deployment of live releases
Work closely with the Engineering Lead and Design Lead to set the overall product direction and maintain continued success of our live games
Mentor and train all disciplines of creatives on the team
Form a strong grasp of the technologies used on our live teams so that you can train and troubleshoot with the art team
Constantly evaluate new tools and techniques in order to produce content consistently and competitively
Set and perform analysis on key performance indicators
You are an experienced artist in the games industry who loves games, plays lots of games and knows the industry well. You are excited about leading and mentoring a team of artists to bring the creative vision of our games to life and willing to jump in and work alongside your team when needed. 
Have shipped and led the creative team on live games in the past
Passion for growing not just your own but others’ art skills
Experience with art asset creation process including concepts, modelling, UV/Texturing/Baking, rigging, animation, and rendering
Extensive knowledge in 3D pipeline software (Maya, Zbrush, Substance, etc)
Experience with asset pipelines and implementation (ex. Other qualifications that help are:
Experience working in mobile games and live-ops
Senior level experience in an artistic discipline (Concept, Modelling, Animation, etc.) 
Previous experience launching a game in a senior role
Project management skill, you are good at communicating, documenting and collaborating across disciplines
Strong analytical thinking skills with the ability to collect, organize and analyze data
Extensive Unity knowledge, you know enough to train others and help develop art tools
Any other technical or art skills are a bonus
Challenge your own assumptions and use data to make decisions whenever possible 
Remote First
We have committed to a remote first approach for 2021 with access to in-person collaboration spaces in Vancouver when safe to do so. Our intention is to use 2021 as the foundational year to develop our remote excellence and help shape the future of ATA. We are open to help relocate the successful candidate to Canada.
At ATA you’re offered a flexible, safe, inclusive environment in which you have the autonomy to do your best work, surrounded by a strong team and with the encouragement of supportive leadership that doesn’t just care what you’re doing, but how you’re doing. You take on thought-provoking projects and tackle fun problems alongside people who are equally invested in making meaningful contributions and seeing new ideas come to life. You build communities, take ownership, have wonderful arguments, let the best ideas win and keep growing. Our commitment to inclusion
We build communities. To do this to the best of our abilities, we need a workforce that reflects the diverse player communities we serve. Check out our story to find out how we got to where we are today, and learn about our culture by following @athinkingape on social. We build communities through massively multiplayer mobile games
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