Director & Art Director | Stockholm

About the position

As our industry is constantly evolving, Goodbye Kansas is looking for a technically grounded Director that can contribute to our company's offer in earlier project stages and pitch efforts, but also visually drive projects from start to completion. We need someone who can manage interactive, pre-rendered, VFX, and high level conceptual work, but also someone who can push a story, narrative and lead a team to achieve our goals as a company, but also our clients vision.

As Goodbye Kansas pitches on a variety of project types, we are looking for someone who’s skillset covers foreseeing technical needs, creative, pitch, all the way to producing. This takes a candidate that can get their hands dirty one day technically, but also be client facing, while also leading a larger project team and pipeline.

In this position, you will report to the Creative Director and work closely with the Executive Producers, Art Directors, Script Writers and Artists to create emotionally connecting productions and projects. You are expected to be able to manage all creative aspects of our productions and projects. It’s important that you work extremely well with people, deadlines, and can fully understand and lead every tier of a production / project, but also pitch and vocalise your vision and ideas extremely well to others.



Responsibilities

- Help the Art department in supporting the Creative Director towards company goals
- Working closely with Executive Producers to drive pitch efforts and client meetings
- Advise on and technically develop our Real-time initiatives
- Drafting briefs and setting up a project team
- Building upon and driving stories into projects
- Leading artists, writers, VFX, creative and treatments throughout the projects


- Creative editing - Boardomatics, previs etc, game capture
- Technical editing - Face/motion, organizing and shortlisting ADR, dialogue/VO etc.
- Creatively leading internal projects and initiatives
- Growing a healthy, collaborative, passionate, fun, professional and creative culture.


Requirements and personal qualities

- 10+ year of previous experience from the Capture/VFX/CG industry or other relevant experience
- An eye for visual style and the understanding of how to bring that style to life
- Experience working with Directors, Production, Producers, VFX Supervisors and Concept Artists
- Experience with pre-rendered cinematics in Unreal Engine
- Intensive knowledge of Unreal or game engines
- Capability to support projects from conception to completion, and ability to conceptualise ideas and to think visually
- Methodical approach to work within a high paced environment, delivering on time
- A well-developed understanding of the post-production process including current non-linear video editing, animation and sound design techniques
- Ability to constructively receive, distill and execute on client feedback
- Proactive and able to prioritize for the good of the overall company
- Excellent communication and people-management skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication in English
- A deep understanding with post-production pipelines, techniques, and software
- A strong balance of both creative and practical / technical skills


What we offer

- A fun, creative, international and inclusive environment.
- Opportunities for personal growth, a wide variety of projects and experienced co-workers that collaborate and share knowledge.
- Flexible working hours encouraging work-life balance.
- Pension (tjänstepension) and Promotion of Health & Fitness allowance (friskvårdsbidrag).
- A modern and newly built office in Hammarby Sjöstad that is sustainable - designed for Goodbye Kansas and the environment.


The Goodbye Kansas group consists of Goodbye Kansas Studios, Infinite Entertainment and Goodbye Kansas Holding, with a staff of 200+ in Sweden, London, Hamburg and Los Angeles. We offer award-winning and uniquely integrated services for feature films, TV series, commercials, games and game trailers. Expertise includes VFX, FX, CGI, 3D Face & Body Scanning, Digital Humans, Creature & Character design, Motion Capture, Animation and RealTime expertise. We also create, develop and manage original IPs.