Art Manager

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Company Summary

Product Madness is one of the world's largest mobile game studios, with a global presence. Founded in 2007, we’re today a top-grossing leader in social casino mobile games that are crafted with passion and commitment. Our ambition is to entertain millions of players around the world with our remarkable titles that include Heart of Vegas, Cashman Casino, Lighting Link and FaFaFa™ Gold.

We are Mad about games and the way they bring people together, and that passion and culture is what holds us together as a studio, connects us with the partners we collaborate with, and is what links us to our sister studios across the world.

Summary

Aristocrat’s Iron Pixel Studio division develops market leading social casino games for a variety of mobile and web platforms with a team of extremely high caliber professionals from a wide range of backgrounds. As an Art Manager, you will sit in our Poland studio as part of our ever growing Iron Pixel Studio division based in Austin TX. You will be responsible for managing the creative teams while providing the strategic vision and guidance for the art direction across multiple games in development. This is a hands-on position where you will develop and oversee high quality, class leading content for social and mobile casino gaming.

What You'll Do

• Read and translate the studio and larger business strategy into team strategy, supporting Art Leads to execute it.
• Manages a broad sub-functional area through mostly managing other Art Leads.
• Review final art packages for quality and continuity with the relevant stakeholders and game design vision.
• Actively work to integrate with other Development Studios related to your projects: IPS Austin/NMG Vegas/IPS India.
• Responsible for supporting your team members in their personal development and career progression.
• Sets the benchmark to evaluate candidates for your team and constantly bring the right candidates into the pipeline.
• Decide on the allocation of resources and anticipate changing requirements that may impact delivery before they happen.
• Partner with senior leaders to develop policies & procedures that impact the studio or business unit.
• Guide Art Leads in their coaching & development processes for their direct reports.

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years’ experience as an Art Production or Art Outsource Manager/8+ years Professional Job Experience.
• Knowledge of game production technical constraints, optimization, and implementation.
• Passion for games development and strong game culture.
• Must be highly organized and able to multitask in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong understanding of illustration and animation abilities and techniques with an ability to give constructive feedback and art critique related to project development.
• Experience with Photoshop, 3D programs, and other game authoring tools.
• Proven leadership around team member development, coaching, succession planning and living a “people first” culture in a multidisciplinary, multi-regional, multicultural, environment.
• Experience planning, coordinating and communicating with external studios across various geographic locations.
• Ability to partner, educate and communicate complex strategies, technologies and solutions to peers, customers, and senior leadership through writing and presentations as needed.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Art/Animation or related field preferred.

Benefits:

• Medical Insurance Prestige VIP Plus package 100% covered by Product Madness
• Sport and Wellbeing package - 270 PLN per month - Includes: MultiSport Plus Cards 100% covered by • Product Madness or Refund for your chosen sport and well-being services such as massage, psychotherapy, physiotherapy
• Lunch card - 200 PLN per month to use in restaurants and food apps
• 1000 PLN bonus for blocked 10 day annual leave once per year
• Free additional holidays during the year
• Shorter working hours during summer time
• Free holiday on your Birthday week

Why Product Madness?

Product Madness is so much more than just a Pool table and a foosball game.

We believe in an honest and transparent approach with our teammates. Company wide weekly Town Halls, All Hands and strategy meetings are just a few ways in which we encourage an open and honest path to achieving complete transparency.

Despite a pandemic, there isn’t a day where we don’t feel connected to one another.

With frequent events, workshops, giveaways, slack coffee and donut sessions we have definitely brought on our office culture to this new virtual world of zoom calls.

We also try to cater for all our staff’s needs – be that a freshly brewed cappuccino made by our professional barista in our free coffee shop or by providing a bountiful supply of tasty snacks to keep us refueled and buzzing.

We love to organize plenty of social get-togethers and action-packed activity days, be it slipping inside an inflatable bumper ball for a mad session of football zorbing or throwing caution to the wind and traversing giddy treetop rope courses at Go Ape. On top of these team-building activities, our lunch and learn workshops, not to mention the lavish Christmas and summer parties, foster that ‘work hard, play hard’ mantra. Our offices are based in the heart of the metropolises of London and Lviv, surrounded by an abundance of diversity and inspiration to keep those ideas flowing.

Our Values

People First

We have the deepest respect for our people and their well being. We know they are exceptionally talented and will always have a choice. We want them to re-choose us every day. We are committed to building a culture where each person's voice will always be heard and addressed.

MAD for More

Always improving, innovating and never settling for the existing. We push all boundaries with courage and ambition to become the world’s best games company.

Champion Together
We excel at what we do but yet remain humble and helpful to our teammates. We champion one another and hold each other to high standards without any egos.

Globally Inclusive

We are all Equal - regardless of the language we speak, where we live, our gender, religion or culture we come from. We want to build a global home, where everyone has the equal opportunity to make an impact.

Customer Focused

We always think from the customer's perspective - be it players or internal customers.

Improving their experience and joy is what drives us. Every client's success is our big win!

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