Senior Art Outsourcing Supervisor

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Second Dinner

💵 $120k-$160k
📍Remote - United States

Summary

Join Second Dinner, an award-winning game development studio, as a Senior Art Outsourcing Supervisor! You will manage the end-to-end art outsourcing process for Marvel Snap, overseeing external studios and artists. Collaborate with internal teams to ensure high-quality assets meet artistic and technical standards. This role requires experience in art outsourcing management within gaming, strong communication and leadership skills, and a keen eye for detail. You'll be responsible for budgeting, onboarding, and quality control. Second Dinner offers a competitive salary, equity, comprehensive benefits, and potential performance bonuses.

Requirements

  • Experience as an Art Outsource Manager or a similar role within the gaming or entertainment industries
  • Clear and concise communications, leadership, and people skills
  • In-depth understanding of the game development process and the ability to align art outsourcing activities with internal project milestones and deadlines
  • Ability to manage multiple art pipelines across multiple delivery dates
  • A creative eye for detail and a deep appreciation for visual aesthetics, ensuring the delivery of assets that align with our artistic vision
  • Understanding of the visual style of card games and a passion to push it to the next level
  • Proven problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically to address potential challenges and optimize the outsourcing process
  • Highly organized, self-driven, and a great team player
  • Knowledge of Marvel to help create content that the community will love

Responsibilities

  • Manage the end-to-end art outsourcing process, including sourcing, contract/pricing negotiations, budgeting, onboarding, and maintaining communication with external art studios and individual artists
  • Manage communications and provide feedback to artists and help maintain a strong creative relationship between external and internal art teams
  • Generate detailed documentation, visual reference, and examples of art asset production, procedures, and requirements to support the external vendors
  • Own the quality control over all incoming art assets, providing detailed feedback and approvals in order to deliver quality assets to the development team
  • Work closely with the art director and production team to determine outsourcing needs, pipelines, budgets and costs for art assets
  • Coordinate with external vendors to schedule and track incoming assets
  • Create new art pipelines from scratch as well identify, onboard, and manage new artists, including: Sharing of requirements
  • Determining what pieces artists should work on
  • Discovering new art styles
  • Negotiating contracts
  • Providing feedback
  • File management

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in an art director or lead artist role
  • Past experience creating AAA assets in a production environment for multiple platforms
  • Understanding of Unity
  • Experience working on card games
  • Experience working on live service games
  • Experience working on mobile games
  • Programming experience
  • Photoshop and Illustrator experience

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans with Second Dinner paying 100% of premiums for employees and 75% for dependents for many plans
  • 401(k) contribution with no waiting period
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave with no waiting period
  • Home office improvement bonus
  • Paid Vacation & Sick time
  • Up to 10 BetterHelp sessions covered each benefits plan year
  • Remote-first with core overlap hours between 10AM and 4PM PT
  • Company Winter Holiday shutdown (Dec 25-Jan 1)
  • Company Summer Holiday shutdown (week of July 4)
  • Company Events - In-person Summer all-hands gathering, in-person holiday party, and virtual events throughout the year
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