Art Manager (Gaming & Digital Platforms)
Art Manager (Gaming & Digital Platforms)
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Job Description
We are seeking a dynamic experienced and knowledgeable Brand Artist and Asset Manager with games and interactive content experience to join our UP&E Gaming & Digital Platforms Team. This exciting role is responsible for visual guidance ideation and art guidelines for many of the most well-known entertainment bands in the NBCUniversal portfolio. This role will be supporting the team responsible for all video games and interactive content.
The right candidate will bring industry-leading craft expertise attention to detail and a passion for visual storytelling. This person should have a solid understanding of character development world-building environment art UI/UX and can translate these skills across various digital mediums using the latest industry tools. We are a technology-driven organization and this candidate will be expected to incorporate proprietary toolsets and 3d scanning into their ideation stage to support the art pipelines.
Were looking for teammates who care deeply about the intellectual properties products we create and the people that make them. UP&E is a collaborative inclusive environment that builds on the internal culture of all voices and thoughts celebrated in the creative space. This position will have daily collaboration with marketing production and external development teams and report to the Sr. Director of Creative Strategy & Developer Relations in Universals Games and Digital Platforms group.
Now is the time to join UP&E as we build the future of entertainment together.
This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits including medical dental and vision insurance 401(k) paid leave tuition reimbursement and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website.
Salary range: $85000 -105000 (bonus eligible)
Qualifications :
Responsibilities include:
- Manage art-related asset approvals and provide art direction as needed across multiple games and digital content in the NBCUniversal portfolio
- Ensure games are on-brand visually beautiful functional and meet the quality standards of the IP
- Act as the internal art stakeholder and team expert who makes sure the finished game fulfills team studio and company goals
- Create and present project concepts and artistic vision to the department
- Manage the day-to-day partner process providing hands-on feedback paint overs and concept ideation
- Work collaboratively with brand creative and character art teams to facilitate and provide feedback on partner assets
- Develop strong relationships and partnerships with key business groups across the company including Production Marketing Franchise Management Technology and Publishing
- Stay up to date with the latest art trends and toolsets through research and implementation of new techniques and processes
Qualifications/Requirements:
- 5 years experience in 2D and 3D art on franchise games and interactive production teams including shipped productideally from pre-production through launch and live ops
- Shipped AAA and AA titles from established IP while in a character art or environment art role. Experience in Mobile VR and AR is a plus.
- Specific hands-on experience with mobile game UI/UX and technical art challenges
- Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Receptive to critique and feedback
- Solid project management skills and excellent knowledge of various project management methodologies tools and practices
- Strong process knowledge attention to detail organizational skills and timely follow-up with the ability to stay focused on art direction
- Good cross-disciplinary communications experience between marketing production design and art
- Must have strong games market knowledge and work with the team on innovation and tool development
- Must be career focused on video games with a solid understanding of theatrical and television content
- Portfolio of professional design work (fully or largely created solely by the applicant AI-generated art not accepted) that demonstrates character and environment development UI/UX design creativity and art direction expertise.
Additional Requirements:
- Travel may be required
- Perform other related duties as assigned to support the needs of the team
- Hybrid: This position has been designated as hybrid generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week.
Desired Characteristics:
- A degree from a four-year college with a preference for an advanced degree
- Ability to work hands-on implementing art in-game in-engine for concept prototypes
Additional Information :
As part of our selection process external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversals policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race color religion creed gender gender identity or expression age national origin or ancestry citizenship disability sexual orientation marital status pregnancy veteran status membership in the uniformed services genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.
NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories or arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act where applicable.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
