VP of Art
Midasplayer AB / Formgivarjobb / Stockholm
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We are looking for an exceptional VP of Art who can mentor, manage and motivate a team of creative talent. You should have a gift for engaging people, continuous improvement and enabling success. You should be comfortable working in a matrix global environment and relish the challenge of protecting what works and fixing what doesn't. This represents an excellent opportunity to join one of the most exciting games businesses in the world in a key strategic role.
Your role within our Kingdom
• Act as a thought leader for Art within King and provide leadership and direction to the Art population of the Kingdom
• Provides strong leadership and guidance for the creative department including coaching Studio Art Directors and their teams to success
• Motivate, hire, develop and retain world-class talent within the Art organisation
• Ensure consistency of hiring, training and development across our international multi studio organisation
• Establish and embed standards for quality, visual integrity and style formats
• Continually review and iterate on the tools and technologies available to the Art organisation in King
• Continually improve and optimize the art development and art production processes
• Solves creative problems within areas of direct responsibilities and suggests alternatives when needed
• Support new business initiatives and contribute to ideas and proposals
• Has advanced understanding of character, prop, world and animation creation and can demonstrate/direct how these visually serve the gameplay, narrative, design and existing IP of the project
• Use excellent time management skills to juggle many priorities and deal with changes in priorities
• Use excellent communication skills to work effectively with internal team members, external stakeholders and Head of Studios within a global company
Skills to create thrills
• You will be an experienced, world-class Art leader, used to leading large, high performing matrix Art teams.
• Experience of working within the Games industry and have delivered multiple games to market with multi-talented teams is highly desirable.
• You will ideally have led Art teams and you can provide organisational leadership, motivation and advice to your teams.
• You will have experience in influencing and inspiring Art teams across international geographies.
• Familiarity with SCRUM development methodologies is highly desirable.
• Experience of working for a high-growth company is desirable.
• You will be educated to degree standard or equivalent and show intellectual dexterity.
• You will be an excellent communicator.
• Strong commercial acumen.
• Exhibits strong leadership skills.
• Detail-oriented.
About King
King Digital Entertainment plc (NYSE: KING) is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world. It has a network of 345 million monthly unique users as of second quarter 2014, and offers more than 190 exclusive games in over 200 countries through its king.com and royalgames.com websites, Facebook, and mobile distribution platforms such as the Apple App Store, Google Play Store and Amazon Appstore. King has game studios in Stockholm, Bucharest, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin and Singapore along with offices in San Francisco, Malta, Seoul, Tokyo and Shanghai.
The brilliant experience we give our players comes from the diversity and experience of our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes. That?s why we hire all sorts of talent.
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Publiceringsdatum2015-05-07ErsättningFast månads- vecko- eller timlön
Så ansöker duAnsökan kan skickas till e-postadress:
paul.walsh@king.comFöretagMIDASPLAYER AB
AdressMIDASPLAYER AB
Sveavägen 44
11134 STOCKHOLM
KontorsadressSveavägen 44
STOCKHOLM
Övriga kontaktuppgifterTelefonnummer: 08-54570430
Jobbnummer 2283402
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