Associate Art Director (Characters, Concepts, Lighting & VFX, World) / Directeur·rice Artistique Associé·e (Personnages | Monde | Concepts | Éclairage et VFX)

NBCUniversal • Montreal, QC

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

NBCUniversal is seeking an experienced Associate Art Director to help define and drive the visual direction for an ambitious interactive entertainment project. This posting targets senior art leaders from the video game industry, across multiple overlapping specialty areas: Characters, World, Concepts, Lighting & VFX. In this role, you will partner with Art Direction, discipline leads, and cross-functional teams to establish visual standards, guide quality, align pipelines, and support scalable content creation across a large production environment.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in game development or related art direction leadership roles
• Experience leading teams or disciplines on shipped titles
• Strong portfolio demonstrating visual direction within one or more specialty areas
• Deep understanding of real-time pipelines and scalable production workflows
• Proven ability to collaborate across art, design, technical, and production teams
• Strong communication, leadership, and feedback skills
• Must be willing to work in our Montreal office a minimum of 4 days a week.
• Must be legally authorized to work in Canada.
• Must be willing to travel for work related business, if necessary

Nice To Haves

• Experience on large-scale or complex productions
• Familiarity with modern real-time engines (e.g., Unreal Engine)
• Strong understanding of visual storytelling, realism, and production constraints
• Passion for innovation and building high-quality interactive entertainment experiences
• Positive experience working with outsourcing partners or distributed teams.
• Strong problem-solving mindset and ability to bridge creative and technical constraints.

Responsibilities

• Define and uphold visual direction within your specialty while aligning to the overall artistic vision.
• Translate art and creative goals into clear guidelines, workflows, and production-ready direction.
• Lead and mentor artists and leads across internal teams and external partners.
• Review work to ensure quality, consistency, realism, and technical feasibility.
• Drive cross-discipline collaboration (Design, Tech Art, Production, etc.)
• Identify risks and ensure delivery of high-quality, scalable content

What This Job Offers

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