Studio Art Director

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🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍🎨 Art Director

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Devoted Studios

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51 - 200 employees

🎮 Gaming

🤝 B2B

Gaming • Art • B2B

Devoted Studios is a US-based production management company that specializes in game development and art services. It manages a global network of over 1,900 talent, including expert art directors, producers, and tech leads. Devoted Studios optimizes external game development by leveraging international and local talent to create video game content efficiently. The company offers services such as porting, co-development, full development, and more, supporting clients through a vetted pool of artists and specialized production management. Devoted Studios aims for sustainable game development and high-quality outcomes through its unique approach to managing talent and production processes.

📋 Description

• Define and drive the overall visual vision for the studio’s projects • Establish and maintain cohesive art styles aligned with each IP, brand, and target audience • Translate high-level creative goals into visual guidelines and execution strategies • Provide art direction across multiple projects simultaneously • Set and uphold quality benchmarks across concept, 3D, environment, character, and other art disciplines • Conduct regular art reviews and provide clear, actionable feedback • Ensure visual consistency across assets, features, and game environments • Review and approve key assets, style guides, and final visual deliverables • Ensure milestone deliveries meet artistic standards and deadlines • Collaborate with Game Directors, Producers, Design, and Engineering • Align artistic vision with gameplay, technical constraints, and production timelines • Lead, mentor, and inspire art leads and senior artists • Participate in hiring and talent development strategy and recommend best-fit talent for productions • Foster creative excellence, accountability, and collaboration • Oversee the efficiency and scalability of art pipelines • Identify and remove production bottlenecks • Help build and drive unified production requirements across the studio • Streamline freelancer onboarding through design manuals, video walkthroughs, and clear standards • Collaborate with the pre-production team on client proposals • Support pitch decks and pre-production concept development • Participate in executive planning and greenlight discussions • Contribute to long-term studio strategy

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in game art production, including 5+ years as an Art Director or in an equivalent studio-level art leadership role • Shipped titles where you personally owned the visual direction, with a portfolio showing both your own work and work you directed • Command of multiple art disciplines, including concept, environment, characters, and 3D • Experience directing several projects or teams simultaneously, including distributed, external, or outsourced artists • Working knowledge of modern art pipelines in Unreal and/or Unity and the main DCC tools • Track record of growing art leads, not just directing individual artists • Clear written and verbal communication with creative, technical, and business stakeholders • Co-development, outsourcing, or service-studio experience, especially executing within a client’s established IP (nice to have) • Experience writing art bibles, style guides, or onboarding material for external teams (nice to have) • Involvement in pitches, proposals, bidding, or greenlight processes (nice to have) • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted tools in art production or review workflows (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• 401(k) retirement plan with a Safe Harbor employer match (U.S. based candidates) • 7 business days sick leave (U.S. and Canada based candidates) • 9 business days vacation, including 10 additional days for summer and Christmas company closure (U.S. based candidates) • Health insurance (U.S. based candidates) • Supplemental health and dental insurance (Canada based candidates) • 19 days PTO (Canada based candidates)