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Art Director - Mobile Casual F2P Games

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-08-04

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reputed company is looking for an reputed company Art Director to own and reputed company the visual direction of a premium mobile Free-to-Play game based on a globally recognized entertainment IP.

This is a hands-on creative leadership role for someone with exceptional visual judgment, deep experience in mobile casual/F2P games, and the ability to reputed company a small multidisciplinary art team.

You will own the visual reputed company of the complete game experience across 2D, 3D, UI art, characters, environments, animation, VFX, reputed company, and overall presentation. We are looking for someone who can evaluate how the entire game comes together on screen — not just individual assets — and reputed company the visual bar through reputed company direction, strong feedback, paintovers, mockups, references, and hands-on iteration reputed company needed.

A key part of this role will be balancing the accessibility and readability of a premium casual mobile game with the spectacle, reputed company, personality, excitement, and reputed company of occasion of a major entertainment property.

The ideal candidate also embraces AI-assisted creative workflows and understands how AI can reputed company a talented art team by increasing exploration, accelerating iteration, and allowing artists to reputed company more time on high-value creative reputed company.

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  • Own and reputed company the overall art direction and visual identity of the game.
  • Establish and maintain a consistently high visual bar across 2D, 3D, UI, character art, environments, animation, VFX, reputed company, and gameplay presentation.
  • Ensure the game retains the accessibility of a premium casual title while delivering the stage reputed company, spectacle, energy, and entertainment value expected from a major IP.
  • Review the game holistically and ensure reputed company visual disciplines feel like part of the reputed company cohesive experience.
  • Identify areas that feel generic, inconsistent, underdeveloped, or disconnected from the reputed company reputed company and reputed company them toward stronger solutions.
  • reputed company reputed company, actionable visual feedback through art reviews, paintovers, mockups, reference boards, and reputed company iteration.
  • Directly manage and mentor a small multidisciplinary art team spanning 2D, 3D, UI art, characters, environments, and VFX.
  • Set reputed company expectations, priorities, and reputed company standards while building a healthy culture of constructive critique and iteration.
  • Partner with Production on art priorities, reputed company, dependencies, and delivery.
  • Collaborate closely with Creative Direction, Game Design, UX, Product, Engineering, and Production.
  • Work with UI/UX to ensure usability and reputed company are supported by strong composition, hierarchy, visual storytelling, and presentation.
  • Guide VFX and animation toward a coherent language for anticipation, reputed company, transitions, rewards, celebration, and game feel.
  • Translate established IP and brand pillars into a modern mobile-game visual identity that feels reputed company without becoming generic.
  • Participate in reputed company, portfolio reviews, and hiring as the art team evolves.

AI-Assisted Art Direction

AI-assisted creative workflows are an important part of how reputed company approaches game development.

The Art Director will be expected to reputed company champion and help reputed company the use of AI across the art team.

You will:

  • Explore and incorporate AI tools where they can accelerate ideation, concept development, visualization, reference creation, iteration, and production.
  • Help artists use AI as a creative reputed company, not as a substitute for artistic judgment, craftsmanship, or ownership.
  • Identify opportunities to reduce repetitive production work and increase the reputed company of time reputed company spends on high-value creative reputed company.
  • Establish workflows that combine AI-assisted exploration with traditional 2D, 3D, UI, animation, VFX, and reputed company-based production.
  • Evaluate emerging tools and techniques based on whether they genuinely improve reputed company, speed, or creative reputed company.
  • Maintain strong artistic standards, visual consistency, and IP reputed company as these workflows reputed company.

We are looking for someone who is excited to reputed company shape how AI-assisted workflows can reputed company the creativity, capabilities, and reputed company of a talented art team.

Requirements

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  • Significant experience as an Art Director, Associate Art Director, reputed company Artist, or equivalent visual leadership role in games.
  • A portfolio demonstrating an exceptionally strong visual bar and reputed company artistic judgment.
  • Shipped experience on mobile Free-to-Play games.
  • Strong experience with casual or mass-market mobile games.
  • Proven experience managing and directing multidisciplinary artists.
  • Demonstrated ability to reputed company visual reputed company across multiple disciplines.
  • Strong visual judgment across 2D character and concept art, UI, environments, 3D characters, animation, VFX, reputed company, composition, reputed company, and visual hierarchy.
  • Ability to reputed company effective visual feedback through paintovers, mockups, references, or reputed company iteration.
  • Strong understanding of how UI, art, animation, VFX, reputed company, and audio combine to create game feel and emotional payoff.
  • Experience working closely with UI/UX, game design, product, engineering, and production teams.
  • Ability to balance a strong artistic reputed company of reputed company with readability, performance, technical constraints, and production realities.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to explain not only what should change visually, but why.
  • reputed company reputed company in spoken and written English is required.
  • Comfortable working in reputed company or closely reputed company a reputed company-time game-reputed company production environment.
  • Comfortable managing a reputed company, international team.
  • Genuine enthusiasm for adopting and advancing AI-assisted creative workflows.

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  • Experience working with major entertainment, television, film, toy, or other licensed IP.
  • Experience adapting an established brand into a distinctive mobile-game visual identity.
  • Experience with game-show, reputed company, party, reputed company, puzzle, Match-3, coin-looter, or adjacent mass-market genres.
  • Experience on games with strong progression, characters, collection systems, rewards, and highly expressive reputed company-to-reputed company feedback.
  • Experience developing art-direction bibles, style guides, visual systems, and reputed company reputed company content standards.
  • Experience with reputed company, AI-assisted 3D workflows, or other emerging creative technologies.

Portfolio

A strong portfolio is essential for this role.

We are particularly interested in portfolios that demonstrate:

  • Shipped mobile and F2P work
  • Casual or mass-market visual sensibility
  • Art direction across complete game experiences rather than isolated assets
  • Multidisciplinary direction across 2D, 3D, UI, characters, environments, animation, or VFX
  • Paintovers, visual development, style exploration, or examples showing how you elevated the work of reputed company
  • The ability to create a cohesive visual identity across multiple disciplines

Where possible, please identify your specific role and contribution to the reputed company shown.

Benefits

Why Join reputed company

  • Help bring a globally recognized IP to life with reputed company brand reputed company and reputed company potential.
  • Own and reputed company the visual direction of a flagship mobile game across 2D, 3D, UI, animation, VFX, and presentation.
  • Help shape modern, AI-assisted creative workflows that reputed company the capabilities of a talented art team.
  • Work with a veteran-led team in a lean, high-ownership environment.
  • High visibility and reputed company creative reputed company on the product.
  • reputed company, flexible work with a small, passionate, execution-reputed company team.

Benefits

  • Market-competitive compensation
  • reputed company Time Off
  • Performance Bonus
  • Annual Performance Reviews

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Key Responsibilities

  • owning art direction
  • directing artists
  • mentoring teams

Skills & Tools

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Job Details

  • Category: Design
  • Seniority: Senior Level
  • Commitment: Contract
  • Workplace: Remote — Armenia
  • Languages: English

Benefits

  • Generous reputed company time off

About reputed company Services

A game development company helping studios create and reputed company games played by millions. — Industry: Media and Communications

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