Head of Art

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2019

🛍️ eCommerce

🏪 Marketplace

🛒 Retail

eCommerce • Marketplace • Retail

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📋 Description

• Own the commercial success of the Art Delivery line of business at global level, including revenue growth, margin targets, and long-term scalability. • Partner closely with the sales team to evaluate, shape, and close new business opportunities, ensuring they are structured for successful delivery. • Participate in client-facing discussions to define scope, pricing models, delivery strategies, and long-term partnership potential. • Ensure that signed deals align with operational capabilities, artistic standards, and strategic goals. • Define and execute a forward-looking strategy for the art business, including service offerings, capacity planning, and market positioning. • Identify opportunities for new capabilities, delivery models, tools, or geographic expansion. • Build new teams in growth regions. • Support, grow and mentor current teams. • Stay informed on industry trends in game art production, outsourcing, and co-development to inform business decisions. • Design, organize, and deploy cross-functional delivery teams, along with the Global Art Director, to meet client needs effectively and efficiently. • Establish scalable structures, workflows, and resource models in partnership with production and art/codev leadership. • Ensure clarity of roles, responsibilities, and accountability across the delivery organization. • Act as an escalation point for delivery or resourcing challenges, driving solutions that protect client relationships and business outcomes. • Build trusted relationships with key clients as a business and delivery leader. • Ensure consistent communication and alignment between internal teams and external partners. • Represent the Art Services business internally, providing clear reporting on performance, risks, and opportunities.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in games industry services, outsourcing, co-development, or related delivery-focused environments. • Proven experience leading business units, service lines, or large operational teams. • Strong commercial acumen, including experience with deal structuring, pricing, margin management, and contract execution. • Demonstrated ability to organize, scale, and deploy teams across multiple projects and clients. • Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills. • Strong strategic thinking combined with hands-on operational execution. • Excellent communication in English, both written and spoken. • Fluent in at least another language. • Experience with managing Eastern European teams. • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, creative environment with tight deadlines. • Familiarity with game development pipelines, from pre-production to post-production. • A passion for digital art, the process of creating it, and a desire to share that passion with others. • **Preferred:** • Experience working closely with art, creative, or production leadership in game development. • Familiarity with 3D art pipelines, asset production workflows, and game development lifecycles. • Experience supporting AAA and/or large-scale indie game projects. • Background in distributed or global team environments.

🏖️ Benefits

• A dynamic and creative work environment. • Opportunities to work on exciting, high-profile projects. • Professional development and career growth. • Competitive salary and benefits. • You will be working for one of the worlds leading providers of specialist services to the games industry.

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