Art Director

Requisition Number: 159381

Position Title: Senior Art Director

External Description:

Art Director | Maxis Texas

Maxis Texas, EA's newest Maxis studio, is looking for a visionary Art Director to lead our art team in the creation of a new, unannounced title. We're looking for candidates with a unique vision and the ability to promote that vision, providing stunning visuals at the highest levels of execution.

At Maxis we're pushing the boundaries on every front, so you'll get a chance to stretch beyond your comfort zone and learn while you contribute. Our team culture is collaborative and we expect everyone to think like game makers and approach development with a Player First perspective.

You'll report to our Senior Producer and your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborate and develop a cohesive aesthetic vision for our bold, new project
• Team up with the Creative Director, Tech Leadership, and Production to accomplish key milestones
• Extend the game's aesthetic vision beyond core game visuals to cohesively support UI/UX, Live Services and marketing considerations
• Understand and navigate technical constraints to produce stunning results on every platform
• Create and maintain style guides and high-level documentation
• Nurture the development and well-being of the art team
• Train artists to meet style guide parameters and iterate to improve results, pipelines and processes
• Develop partnerships with external outsourcing partners to ensure assets hit style, schedule, technical and quality targets
• Assemble requirements for the product and create an art plan that supports them
• Align with producers ito hit sprints and milestones
• Develop art team production best practices in collaboration with development directors

Qualifications

• Accomplished CG artist with a minimum of 10 years experience in game development and at least one shipped title as a video game art director
• A deep understanding of all aspects of contemporary 3D game development: concept art, character modeling, prop modeling, environment modeling, lighting, animation, visual effects and user-interface design.
• Experienced at establishing art vision and guidelines, preferable on new IPs
• Accomplished in leading and inspiring teams of artists and in delivering appropriate feedback as the team executes through pre-production, production and as a continually evolving live service
• Experienced in working with team partners to create a content plan and backlog as well as a developing a hiring ramp and timeline required to execute
• Prior experience ramping up and working effectively with external development partners
• Proven solutions-orientation and prototyping ability
• Strong sense of composition, lighting, form and palette
• Deep, demonstrated passion for game development and game art

Bonus

• Experience developing games for the mobile market
• Experience in developing 2D and 3D assets for monetized live service games

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Days Open: 35

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EAは雇用機会を均等に提供します。 雇用に関する決定を下す際は、人種、肌の色、国籍、出身国、出身民族、身体的性別、社会/文化/心理的性別、性別自認または性別表現、性的指向、年齢、遺伝情報、宗教、身体障害、病状、妊娠、婚姻状況、家族状況、軍役経験の有無は考慮されません。 さらにEAでは、身体に障害のある方々のために、適用法令によって定められた職場環境を整えることも行っています。