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Character Art Director
Keywords Studios. Own overall artistic and technical quality for the Character Art discipline.
Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive experience in Character Art for videogames, with a strong focus on leadership, mentoring, and quality assurance. Capable of driving operational performance and client satisfaction while managing a large team of artists across global locations.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Character Art ExpertiseSenior Leadership ExperienceClient-Facing CommunicationMentoring and CoachingProblem Solving
ATS Keywords
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Hard Skills
Character Art ProductionArtistic JudgmentModern Character Art PipelinesQuality MonitoringKPI Management
Soft Skills
CollaborationInfluencingCoaching
Industry Keywords
Videogame ArtCreative LeadershipOperational PerformanceTeam HealthCapacity Planning
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own overall artistic and technical quality for the Character Art discipline.
- Ensure creative leaders provide effective direction, reviews, and feedback.
- Mentor, advise, and support creative leadership teams in India and other locations.
- Work directly with clients to understand expectations, translate feedback into direction, and address quality or confidence issues.
- Coach and develop Associate Art Directors, Leads, and senior artists.
- Monitor quality, efficiency, first-time approval, rework, late-night working patterns, employee engagement, and other KPIs.
- Identify trends and drive improvement with Production and creative leadership.
- Contribute to staffing, capacity planning, project scoping, capability development, problem solving, and selected new-business opportunities.
- Support a Character Art organization of up to 300 artists through Associate Art Directors, Art Leads, and production leadership.
Requirements
What you’ll need- Extensive professional experience in Character Art for videogames, including significant senior leadership experience.
- Exceptional artistic judgment and expert knowledge of modern Character Art pipelines and production practices.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and influence large, distributed organizations through other leaders.
- Strong client-facing, communication, mentoring, coaching, and collaboration skills.
- Ability to identify complex problems, determine root causes, and facilitate practical solutions.
- Strong understanding of the relationship between creative quality, operational performance, client satisfaction, and team health.
- Ability to work flexible hours when needed to collaborate with teams in India and other global locations, with periodic travel to India, typically 1–2 times per year.