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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