Jobs / Art director / Lead artist - Facebook Social Game

Art director / Lead artist

Responsibilities:

- Graphics design and art production for the company's games

- The creation of consistent, high-quality art work for the whole game and related area

- Manage art team to meet project deadlines and milestones 

- Regularly reviews, provides feedback and approves all art content 

- Identify and anticipate artistic problems and communicate solutions to the project manager 

- Identify problems that can be addressed visually and provide solutions

- Create and assist with management of project schedules and resource planning

- Demonstrate a high level of creativity and originality in treatments of licensed IP and licensor style guides without violating license issues, or create style guides if none exist

- Responsible for mentoring, training, career direction and performance evaluations for the Art team

Requirements:

- Capable of identifying and recommending needs for art-specific tools to enhance or control visual aspects of game

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; must be able to communicate difficult and creative concepts in a clear and concise manner; capable of writing design documentation defining needs

- Advanced understanding of several 2D software packages (Adobe Flash CS4 and Adobe InDesign preferred)

- Strong understanding of how the art pipeline works and how to create/modify and monitor it

- Follow the vision and provide clear direction for artists while maintaining a high level of quality and consistency

- Contribute original ideas towards all aspects of game art and production

- A deep understanding of the various technical disciplines that go into game art including: concept design, graphic design, animation, environment modeling, character modeling, texturing, lighting and rigging is a plus