Art Director Team Lead

You GO. You can take an idea and run with it. Paint a picture. Set the scene. Capture characters. Like when it comes to presenting a character’s individual style and attitude, you know that yours are just as important. And you can lead a team of creative and talented people.

We need a skilled Art Director Team Lead like you to distinguish our growing international team in London*

Before you visualize yourself delivering your best work yet, on-time, with the quality expected of a market leader, please consider the following points-which look more like round dots but nobody calls them that.

As an Art Director Team Lead at Play'n GO, you will:

- Oversee the creative artistic quality of regional studio slot games
- Manage a team of Art Directors
- Work on Innovative prototypes
- Do product focus strategy thinking
- Coach and train Art Directors to ensure quality levels are hit on all games in the studio
- Work closely with other stakeholders (game design, animation, math)
- Lead the Art Directors in order to give detailed feedback to AD proposals to make sure they meet the quality benchmarks and also pushing evolution to higher quality
- Define and drive design standards and best practices for the team
- Work with the team (manager) to develop and define new practices to meet the evolutionary needs of Play'n GO’s art demands
- Be open to experimentation and research of other software mediums to push quality
- Ensure the art direction is well communicated within their project teams
- Work closely with Producing, Math, Games Design and Dev stakeholders
- Work on R&D projects
- Focus on new product strategies with the SLT
- Improve the quality of player engagement
- Create concepts for new innovative games
- Collaborate with animation, design leads and developers to R&D new creative solutions for art and animation that will take Play'n GO into the next phase of exciting slot game development
- Communicate and fully brief successfully approved innovation projects owned by you to selected Art Directors
- Foster an open and transparent culture to collaborate in the teams and between the other departments
- Manage your team to ensure high performance by meeting/aligning business goals
- Work actively to enable synergies and innovations in the art department globally
- Ensure team's compliance with processes and align activities
- Communicate and lead change
- By meeting/aligning business goals, focus the team on effective execution of delivery, strategy, and high performance
- Enhance team's competence and skills through training plans
- Act as representative of the company in both internal and external dealings
- Uphold and advocate the Company values and adhere to Company rules and regulations
- Ensure team's alignment to the Play'n GO culture
- Regularly provide and receive open and constructive feedback on performance, behaviour and skill
- Conduct performance and salary reviews according to the company’s current policies and processes and in cooperation with Human Resources and Reporting Manager
- Escalate employee issues to Human Resources
- Drive recruitment activities for the team, build and execute a strategy to hire the best-in-class candidates
- Travel domestically and/or internationally for business as needed




You MUST have:

- Gambling industry experience preferred
- Experience on AAA games or Mobile AAA is a Bonus
- 5-10 years of experience as an Art Director in mobile, console or casino
- Expert knowledge of Art tools like Adobe CC, Spine, Zbrush, Maya
- Strong level of Drawing skills
- Excellent artistic judgement
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to provide constructive detailed feedback to suggest improvements if necessary
- Ability to present their ideas constructively
- Ability to collaborate cross departmentally with other Leads
- Excellent level of English language proficiency




Get in here. We need your mojo, your moxie and your awesome mind. You were made to make a difference and you can do that here. Play’n GO leads the global Gaming Entertainment industry with an unrivalled ability to play nice with others while supplying cutting-edge casino games and bespoke back-office solutions. Thanks to our ever-passionate creative and technical chops we keep growing because we deliver more. Together, we can amplify enthusiasm, add skillsets and exceed expectations. Are you game? *Tell us about your superpowers. And quickly. This industry works fast.

Apply here: https://talenthub.playngo.com/ Please note that the position will remain open until we find the right candidate.

Covid-19 Update: Interviewing and hiring is still urgent for us. We’re growing. But many of us are working from home now. Safety is job one. Please note: Working from home is an option for you during this pandemic.