Art director | Directeur·trice artistique

Behaviour Interactive • Montreal, QC

3d

About The Position

We're looking for an Art Director who is ready to set the visual direction and build a new universe. This is primarily a creative and conceptual role, where you'll spend most of your time visually exploring ideas to guide the development team. If you've been waiting for the opportunity to visualize a new IP from the ground up this your chance.

Requirements

• Proven experience as an Art Director, Lead Concept Artist, or Senior Concept Artist, with strong character and environment fundamentals.
• A portfolio showing strong design work in the sci-fi or futuristic genres.
• Experience in world building or visualizing new IP from scratch.
• Experience in collaborating closely with stakeholders, ensuring alignment on goals, timelines, and deliverables while fostering strong, transparent relationships.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in industrial design or designing exosuits, robots, vehicles and weapons is a plus.
• Working knowledge of Unreal Engine 5 and how art direction translates into a real-time pipeline is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Define the overall art direction and visual identity for a new, unannounced IP, in collaboration with our creative and design leads.
• Build out an art bible focused on story telling, characters, environments, factions, mood, and high-level visual language.
• Concept and iterate on character, vehicles and weapons, pushing design and silhouette to create a signature look the project can be known for.
• Quickly produce visual guidance for artists through sketches, paint overs and concept art.
• Help shape the worldbuilding as the foundation for visual choices.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, balancing their high-level pillars with your own creative authorship.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed