3D Art Director

Summary

Join Devoted Studios, a video game production management company, as a 3D Art Director to lead the visual direction of external game development projects. Oversee artistic vision across various titles, collaborating with clients and internal/external teams. Maintain high-quality 3D visual standards, ensuring alignment with project goals and providing creative leadership. The ideal candidate possesses a strong 3D art background in games, understands external development processes, and demonstrates exceptional communication skills. This role involves managing art teams, providing feedback, managing vendors, and creating guidelines. You will also be responsible for production workflow, team leadership, project management, onboarding and training, and time management. The position is remote and full-time.

Requirements

• 4–6 years of leadership experience in the video game industry, including as a Lead Artist or 3D Character Artist
• Proven experience managing, mentoring, and reviewing performance for remote and cross-functional art teams
• Ability to foster a positive, productive, and collaborative team environment
• Experience working with external vendors and service providers while maintaining high artistic standards
• Strong background in 3D art with a deep understanding of artistic pipelines, styles, and quality benchmarks
• Proficient with industry-standard tools: Unreal Engine or Unity, Photoshop, Maya, Blender, Substance Suite, Marmoset
• Familiarity with project management tools like Jira and documentation tools like Confluence
• Experience in developing and maintaining production guidelines, pipelines, and technical documentation
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills
• Strong ability to estimate project requirements, manage pre-production tasks, and oversee multiple projects (3–5 simultaneously)
• Ability to work autonomously and remotely with a global team
• Fluent in English (C1 level)

Responsibilities

• Manage the Art Team
• Review other projects for quality and technical consistency, providing feedback
• Vet and manage vendors
• Communicate directly with art teams, clients, and partners
• Provide video and delivery template feedback for art teams
• Create guidelines and technical requirements, pitch guidelines/presentations for clients
• Resolve workflow problems for production projects
• Identify work process improvements
• Communicate in advance to the Producer in case Change Requests are needed or if out of initial estimates, providing reasoning
• Inspire, motivate, and mentor other artists in best practices, processes, and procedures related to production
• Ensure all assets created by the art team and outsource studios conform to style and technical guidelines
• Work together with the team of Art Directors, Lead Artist, 3D Modeler
• Estimate pre-production requests
• Evaluate art content and perform final polishing if required
• Maintain accurate documentation of production methodologies and techniques
• Help develop best practices for art creation
• Participate in the onboarding process and project setup
• Train, assign, schedule, and coach the internal team
• Ensure timely time tracking
• Work with US-based Art Directors to ensure high-quality production, on-time delivery, and budget adherence
• Partner with team members (Art Director, Lead Artist, 3D Modeler) on various projects
• Coordinate with internal teams to enhance project quality

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years in a game development or entertainment studio environment
• Experience with Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects) is a plus
• A strong passion for video games

Benefits

• Strong and enthusiastic team – you will have the opportunity for knowledge sharing, learning, and professional self-development
• Interesting and challenging tasks – solve diverse and challenging issues, communicate with people within the company as well as with our partners
• Convenient working conditions – remote work, the opportunity to build your own working day with flexible working hours
• �� chance to work in a highly professional and dynamic team working with a wide range of International Game Production projects, attractive remuneration package, and opportunities to develop professionally