Senior Art Outsourcing Supervisor

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