Character Art Director

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍🎨 Art Director

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Keywords Studios

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1998

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Keywords Studios is the #1 global games services provider, offering an end-to-end platform supercharged by technology. They deliver technical and creative solutions to the global video games industry, with services including game development, art services, audio development, QA testing, localization, marketing services, and player engagement. Keywords Studios also works on accessibility services, content globalization, and advanced AI & technology solutions. Founded on decades of experience, they are committed to responsible business practices and provide industry-wide insights for unparalleled experiences to audiences around the world.

📋 Description

• Own overall artistic and technical quality for the Character Art discipline. • Ensure creative leaders provide effective direction, reviews, and feedback. • Mentor, advise, and support creative leadership teams in India and other locations. • Work directly with clients to understand expectations, translate feedback into direction, and address quality or confidence issues. • Coach and develop Associate Art Directors, Leads, and senior artists. • Monitor quality, efficiency, first-time approval, rework, late-night working patterns, employee engagement, and other KPIs. • Identify trends and drive improvement with Production and creative leadership. • Contribute to staffing, capacity planning, project scoping, capability development, problem solving, and selected new-business opportunities. • Support a Character Art organization of up to 300 artists through Associate Art Directors, Art Leads, and production leadership.

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive professional experience in Character Art for videogames, including significant senior leadership experience. • Exceptional artistic judgment and expert knowledge of modern Character Art pipelines and production practices. • Demonstrated ability to lead and influence large, distributed organizations through other leaders. • Strong client-facing, communication, mentoring, coaching, and collaboration skills. • Ability to identify complex problems, determine root causes, and facilitate practical solutions. • Strong understanding of the relationship between creative quality, operational performance, client satisfaction, and team health. • Ability to work flexible hours when needed to collaborate with teams in India and other global locations, with periodic travel to India, typically 1–2 times per year.