Art Team Manager

We are looking for an experienced Art Team Manager to take the lead of one of the best art teams in the entire iGaming industry. The amount of talent we have onboard is unrivalled, with a reputation across the sector for both product quality and output, so you will just need to put a cherry on top of this delicious cake.

The Art Team Manager will take over all the administrative tasks of the Krakow Art Team, including staffing, performance reviews, careers development, ensuring that the team can fully concentrate on artistic tasks. We are looking for a natural leader, who can easily become a driver of the team's successes.

Moreover, Art Team Manager with strong hands-on art creation background would be a mentor for the artists in his team, sharing the knowledge and helping all team members to grow. The manager will have a direct influence on the art created in Yggdrasil cooperating with Art Directors in the team, to secure the highest quality of the Studio's graphics.

Objectives:

• Partner with the art director, art leads, and producers to manage individuals across the entire art department
• Define and manage artist career paths within the team and across the studio
• Mentor art leads on management and leadership
• Plan long-term for the team direction and capacity
• Supervise artists and provide work direction, performance reviews, and coaching for the team; identify internal and external growth opportunities
• Design and implement best practices around staffing, interviewing, and career development
• Decide on staffing to support both the short and long term goals of the Art Team
• Work with production to create and manage team schedules and ensure proper workflow and opportunities to grow throughout the art department
• Work with external partners and act as a stakeholder for outsourced assets
• Be a point of contact between marketing and Studio Art Team
• Support internal initiatives to streamline the art creation process and innovate techniques and created content
• Ensure the quality and completion of all work projects assigned to members of the Art Team

Key skills:

• Strong leadership experience to be able to manage a large team of artists in a dynamically changing game production environment
• Able to handle a wide range of personnel issues including recruitment, career development, and conflict resolution
• Able to interact as part of a team and to contribute to increasing productivity goals and efficiencies
• Able to successfully deconstruct broad feature goals into prioritized tasks
• Able to build consensus on overall goals and balance resource allocation based on project goals and individual ability
• Efficiency in using software such as Adobe Photoshop
• Art creation experience
• Fluency in English

Nice to have:

• Game art creation experience
• iGaming industry domain knowledge