Art Director - Draft Showdown
Voodoo· Gaming
Hybrid (Paris), Hybrid (Warsaw), Hybrid (Istanbul)Full-timePosted 5mo ago
About the role
Art Director role within a newly established internal studio focused on a high-potential midcore prototype, driving artistic vision, visual style, and team leadership to create a market-ready title.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the overall artistic vision for the game, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment with the product's creative and commercial goals.
- Establish and maintain a cohesive visual style across all art disciplines — UI/UX, characters, environments, VFX, and animation.
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a multidisciplinary art team, providing clear creative direction and actionable feedback at every stage of production.
- Collaborate closely with the General Manager to align the visual direction with gameplay intent and player experience goals.
- Drive the creation and governance of visual style guides, asset pipelines, and quality benchmarks.
- Actively contribute hands-on to key art assets and concepting where needed, setting the quality bar for the team.
- Champion player-centric design thinking, using live data, competitor analysis, and playtesting insights to continuously refine the game's visual experience.
Qualifications
- Proven experience as an Art Director or Senior Lead Artist on at least one shipped mobile title, ideally within the midcore genre.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end ownership of a game's visual identity, from early concept through to live product.
- Deep understanding of the visual language of midcore games — including character design, environment art, UI/UX, and combat feedback systems.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and develop multidisciplinary art teams in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
- Hands-on proficiency in Unity, with the ability to implement, integrate, and optimise assets directly in-engine.
- AI-first mindset: Comfortable using AI daily and building custom agents or reusable automations to speed up your work
- Fluent in English.
Skills
Required:Art directionUnityCharacter designEnvironment artUI/UXLeadership
Nice to have:VFX and animation
Benefits
- Best-in-class compensation
- Other benefits according to the country you reside
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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