Senior Art Manager

Job Description

Art Manager (Outsourcing)
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India

We're EA-the world's largest video game publisher. You're probably familiar with many of our titles-Madden, FIFA, The Sims, Need for Speed, Dead Space, Battlefield and Star Wars, to name a few. But maybe you don't know how we're committed to creating games for every platform-from social to mobile to console-to give our consumers that anytime, anywhere access they demand. What does that mean for you? It means more opportunities to unleash your creative genius, be inspired by those around you and ignite your path in any direction you choose.

Industrial Toys is a AAA mobile developer founded by Halo veteran Alex Seropian. Our mission is to make games that are Mobile To The Core! We are currently working to bring cutting edge FPS gaming to your phone. If you're interested in working with veteran mobile, console, and PC developers in creating new AAA experiences to reach billions of mobile players around the world we would like to hear from you!
Our vision is to be EA Mobile's center of excellence for Live Services and help grow the footprint of casual games in the market. Here are the values we truly believe in:
• Tenacity – Hunger to prove yourself and keep pushing the boundary
• Ownership – Get things done
• Passion – Passionate about the art of making games
• Collaboration – Great things are not done by an individual but by a team of highly motivated folks
• Alchemy – Create magic in everything you do

Responsibilities
• Collaborate with Art Leads to understand and communicate the visual goals of the project externally, and maintain consistency of the artistic vision with outside teams
• Collaborate with the Production Team and Art Leads in the overall management of external art schedules and resource plans
• Track and communicate specific visual feedback on all assets throughout the stages of production, to completion
• Create and implement the art production pipeline between internal and external productions and foster the process throughout the project lifecycle
• Vet external parties for quality and viability and recommending external vendors
• Rate negotiation with prospective vendors
• Create budgets for outsourcing

Qualification
• At least 4+ years of prior outsourced art management or art direction in game environment, with at least one shipped AAA title
• Previous AAA game experience in a 3D art or animation role
• Excellent communication skills across internal and external teams and the ability to provide clear and concise direction, bridging the gap between both sets of teams
• Experience and ability to apply cultural understanding to teams across the globe
• A history of team building and getting the best out of distributed art teams
• A strong sense of flexibility as it pertains to changing project goals or other project needs

Good to have
• Experience with new outsourcing vendor onboarding
• Desire to travel internationally
• confident using communications tools such as slack and zoom to work with remote teams.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r19nqx-18-222-253-195-42 in your application.