Associate Art Director Monopoly GO!

Scopely is looking for aAssociate Art Directorto join our Monopoly GO! team in our Barcelona Hub on a hybrid basis!

At Scopely we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing publishing and innovating the mobile games industry connecting millions of people around the world daily.

MONOPOLY GO! is a global phenomenon and the biggest mobile game launch in history captivating millions of players worldwide.

This role owns the end-to-end art direction ensuring a cohesive high-quality and player-centric visual experience across a wide range of featuresfrom UI-driven systems to content-heavy initiatives. You will play a key role not only in defi ning visual direction but in shaping how the team thinks: challenging assumptions pushing for clarity and helping teams understand the why behind creative decisions. This is a highly collaborative and hands-on leadership role that requires strong communication creative conviction and the ability to operate across different problem spaces.

What You Will Do:

• Own and drive the Art Direction across different teams ensuring consistency quality and alignment with the game vision
• Set clear actionable creative direction across features and initiatives working across UI 2D 3D Animation and VFX
• Lead creative thinking facilitating brainstorms and engaging the team to defi ne strong thoughtful creative solutionsnot just execute on briefs
• Challenge and elevate the work bringing clarity to ambiguous problems and helping teams understand the why behind decisions
• Act as a true creative partner to Product UX Engineering and Productionshaping solutions not just delivering assets
• Build and lead a high-performing team including performance reviews goal setting and ongoing development of the Barcelona-based art teams
• Drive the adoption of AI in art workflows identifying opportunities and setting clear expectations for the team to leverage tools such as Scenario Nano Banana and other emerging technologies to improve speed exploration and quality
• Establish a strong art culture that maximizes team potential encourages ownership and promotes proactive cross-discipline collaboration
• Ensure team health supporting morale identifying training needs and aligning resourcing with priorities
• Partner closely with Art Production to build efficient scalable and high-quality art pipelines and processes
• Serve on the leadership team for 2 lines of business collaborating with other craft executives across product production engineering analytics and people functions. Contribute to strategic direction and prioritization of business goals and development of team culture
• Contribute to product and studio-level planning bringing a strong creative perspective to strategic decisions

What Were Looking For:

• Proven experience as an Art Director or Associate Art Director on a live game
• Strong background in UI/UX-driven environments with the ability to guide visual decisions in UI-heavy systems
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams (UI 2D 3D Animation VFX)
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills with the ability to infl uence and align cross-functional teams
• Ability to challenge ideas constructively bringing clarity direction and creative conviction
• Strong artistic judgment across composition color style and visual storytelling
• Deep understanding of how art supports gameplay UX and player experience
• Experience in live operations environments ideally within mobile or social games
• Demonstrated ability to build team culture and develop talent
• Experience working with or driving AI-supported creative workflows

Bonus Points:

• Experience working with established IPs
• Fluent in Spanish

About Scopely

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company home to many of the worlds most beloved and enduring experiences including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time MONOPOLY GO! and Pokémon GO along with Stumble Guys Star Trek Fleet Command MARVEL Strike Force WWE Champions the Scrabble franchise Yahtzee With Buddies and many others. Across mobile web PC and console Scopely creates develops publishes and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.

Founded in 2011 Scopely is powered by its exceptional team including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe a distinctive tenet-driven culture and its proprietary technology platform Playgami. Together these strengths have fueled Scopelys position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like MONOPOLY GO! from the ground up or expanding through strategic acquisitions including the FoxNext GSN and Niantic games businesses Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.

Recognized multiple times as one of the 100 Most Influential Companies in the World by TIME magazine and one of Fast Companys Worlds Most Innovative Companies and Best Workplaces for Innovators Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good creating meaningful connections vibrant communities and making life better through play.

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