Art Director – Electronic Arts Shanghai (EASH)

EASH is seeking an exceptionally creative, highly motivated individual, with tremendous communication skills to take on the role of Art Director for one of our projects. ADs at Electronic Arts Shanghai are responsible for working with the ADs at other studios to ensure a consistent vision and level of quality for the entire game. They must be able to understand and communicate the core vision of the game to the art team in Shanghai, despite language and cultural barriers, and be able to independently guide the team to create AAA quality artwork.

Required art direction skills

• Experience providing art direction for AAA titles – must have a solid understanding of art and development practices, and have shipped multiple titles in the art director role.
• Proven ability to direct and critique an art team, ensuring their work is at a high level of quality and matches the game style and vision. Must be able to run daily reviews and provide effective feedback to artists.
• Excellent visual language and storytelling skills. Must be able to use them to create tone, atmosphere and ambiance, as well as “sell” events in a scene.
• Good functional world knowledge and observations skills – able to help the teams create plausible, believable environments for (mostly) modern and futuristic settings.
• Experience directing all art aspects of a project – Characters, environments, animation, VFX, concept, etc.
• Able to confidently discuss any art topics in English.

Additional preferred skills

• Familiarity with action games – fixed camera, FPS or TPS.
• Ability to mentor AADs and art leads, helping them develop the “soft skills” of leading teams, managing partner relationships and insuring alignment.
• Ability to help develop the EASH artist community, sharing skills, knowledge and experience.

- Experience working with Chinese artists - Mandarin language skills a plus.

Required general skills

• 5+ years games industry experience (or similar entertainment industry work)
• Wide-ranging knowledge of the games industry, genres, and markets.
• Extensive experience with 3D art, authoring packages and best practices.
• Solid communication and problem solving abilities. Confident creating workflows and processes to guide and organize art teams. Ability to effectively direct and delegate to leads.
• Proven experience in effectively engaging external partners, and understanding the core vision of a game. Must be able to actively drive conversations to ensure that vision is communicated.

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