Art Director

We are looking for an experienced Art Director to ensure consistency, quality, and innovation in the Creative Services team. Under the leadership of our co-founder and Studio Art Director, Rodrigo Cortes, you will work with IPs across our growing studio and lead a team of extremely talented designers, including cinematography artists, technical artists, graphic designers, and photogrammetry artists. If you are passionate about developing people, want to contribute to the development of proprietary IPs, and work with top-of-the-line technology, you may be the Art Director we are looking for.

Job description
We are looking for an Art Director with a passion for video games and video to lead the Creative Services team, Sharkmob's in-house production studio. The Creative Services team serves all of Sharkmob, creates assets and media for marketing, HR, and communications, and manages our in-house photogrammetry and motion capture studios.

You are a true team player who provides vision and shares insights and learnings with your team. You're good at delivering feedback, but you're just as good at taking notes when your team and different stakeholders share their points of view.

Daily responsibilities:
- Create and maintain the Brand Guides for our projects.
- Lead the team to get the best out of each member and guide them to success.
- Keep track of tasks, deadlines, and the team's progress on them.
- Maintain the spirit of the team and be a representative of Sharkmob's core values.
- Work with and stay coherent to our visual strategies while also having the courage to challenge the status quo to further develop our IPs and brand.
- Review and feedback on assets produced by Creative Services and external partners.
- Collaborating with Marketing, UI, Communications, and Production.


Qualifications:
- Experience as an Art Director on commercial projects.
- The ability to take multiple projects from an early concept into a refined, high-quality concept.
- An excellent eye for image composition, pacing, typography and color theory.
- You are eager to streamline your workflow, but you are neat and tidy in your layer structure.
- Experience in maintaining coherence across several IPs.
- You are a great communicator and can present ideas in a coherent way.
- Excellent written and spoken English.


That little extra:
- Experience as an Art Director on a AAA game.
- Has worked with lighting, physical or digital.
- Understands color grading.
- Experience with Animation/motion capture.
- Experience with Atlassian products and ShotGrid/Shotgun.


Who we are
Sharkmob was founded in 2017 and has offices in Malmö, Sweden, and London, UK. The studio develops AAA quality games for PC and console, using the Unreal Engine to power its ambitions of taking multiplayer games to new heights. Sharkmob is currently working on three major projects: Bloodhunt - a battle royale set in the Vampire: The Masquerade universe; and two proprietary, unannounced projects.

We hope that you want to join us on our adventure and become a part of our crew. You can find more great perks (https://career.sharkmob.com/pages/perks) of being a crew member. If you want to know more about Sharkmob and our projects, take a look at our homepage (https://www.sharkmob.com/about).