Lead Artist
About The Position
In our growing organization, you’ll lead the art direction and execution for project-specific work in our Minecraft division. You’ll deliver high-impact assets that raise quality standards, while helping the team stay aligned on visual goals and feedback. You’ll support planning, reviews, and production across disciplines, and help the team respond to IP feedback without losing momentum. You’ll bring strong game art pipeline experience, and you’ll grow your leadership skills as you mentor other artists and help strengthen how we build and ship art at Gamemode One. This role is listed at an "Experienced" level. We are looking for someone who already has strong experience creating production-ready game art and contributing to an art pipeline in a team setting. We are looking for someone who will be confident taking ownership of project art quality and alignment. You will raise the quality bar while helping the team ship great work. This is likely not the role for you if you are still building core game art fundamentals or aren’t comfortable with leading and supporting other artists.
Requirements
- Strong experience creating production-ready game art.
- Experience contributing to an art pipeline in a team setting.
- Confidence taking ownership of project art quality and alignment.
- Ability to raise the quality bar while helping the team ship great work.
- Comfort with leading and supporting other artists.
Responsibilities
- Lead the art direction and execution for project-specific work in the Minecraft division.
- Deliver high-impact assets that raise quality standards.
- Help the team stay aligned on visual goals and feedback.
- Support planning, reviews, and production across disciplines.
- Help the team respond to IP feedback without losing momentum.
- Mentor other artists and help strengthen how art is built and shipped.
- Deliver high-quality assets consistently and meet art direction expectations for style and polish.
- Lead art work for a project area and keep assets aligned with the intended visual direction.
- Contribute to project planning by scoping art work and surfacing risks early.
- Demonstrate strong collaboration with teammates across disciplines during reviews and planning.
- Take on direct reports, supporting their growth and establishing a strong two-way feedback relationship and trust.
- Produce hero assets and raise the quality bar for project deliverables.
- Improve the art pipeline by identifying gaps and helping implement better processes.
- Mentor artists with hands-on support during production, including modeling company values and healthy feedback culture.
- Settle into reliable leadership rhythms, including 1:1’s, and involvement in goal-setting.
- Lead art for a project with confidence from planning through delivery, including early involvement in concepting and art direction.
- Act as a culture paragon within the art team, keeping feedback, morale, and ongoing improvement top of mind throughout project development.
- Support with training and onboarding that improves consistency and speed for new artists.
- Drive improvements to our art process and long-term quality standards across projects.
- Contribute to high-level concepting and direction setting for projects, including research and developing the art team to meet skills gaps.
Benefits
- Unlimited paid time off, with a 2-week minimum
- Flexible hybrid schedule, with a focus on in-office
- Health Spending Account of $3000/year
- Charitable matching of $2000/year
- Investment in professional development, with support from external consulting
- Access to the benefits above without a probationary period
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
