2D Art

2D Art
19.05.2023

SENIOR PRODUCER

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Devoted Studios is a production management company for external development in video games. With a mission to create equal opportunity for all talent globally to work on the games of their dreams, Devoted Studios aims to decentralize game development. We partner with 1400+ programmers, artists, and designers, from freelancers to small studios, all over the world, and not only match them to project opportunities but manage the production from A-Z.

Key responsibilities:

  • Manage timelines and production schedules for 2D and 3D art production. 
  • Review vendor estimates, put together production budgets. Own project P&L 
  • Manage and own task estimation, identify and timely communicate risks, identify critical path impediments
  • Lead production meetings with clients and vendors and create actionable items for the art team
  • Collaborate with the Creative Leads on the quality bar for a variety of game art disciplines including: ui, environments, characters, VFX, lighting and animation
  • Work with production, engineering and other disciplines to ensure a collaborative, efficient approach to the creative development of the game
  • Lead planning and agile sprints for the creatives
  • Communication with Vendors / Partners
  • Scheduling and managing the projects
  • Reporting

Jobs to do on Daily Basis:

  • Production related processes and documentation design and implementation 
  • Client Communication: 
    • Created bids, decks and proposals for the clients 
    • Presenting with BD and AD team proposals 
    • Leading client production meeting, sending team plans and reports

 

  • Vendor Communication:

    • Based on Clients requests, create vendor RFPs
    • Managing RFP process with vendors from initial request to final estimate and price negotiation 
    • Maintaining good relationship with vendors, communicating bidding process results 
    • Supporting and leading vendors throughout production to achieve highest project efficiency and smooth production
    • Filling in Estimation Summaries based on the collected information
  • Project Management:

    • Creating Project Plans
    • Maintain Project P&L 
    • Filling in and maintaining accuracy project start and project management related documentation 
    • Production Risk plan Development 
    • Informing all the participants / reminding about the milestones, key due dates, etc

Requirements:

  • English: Advanced 
  • PM Experience: 4/5+years at Gamedev projects management
  • Thorough knowledge and experience in project management, methodologies and tools
  • Attentiveness to details and documents creation is a must 
  • Ability to design and document agile production processes 
  • Ability to understand and negotiate critical art requests versus displacement of scheduled work
  • Experience with JIRA, Perforce and other Project Management Tools
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to present to large audiences including, but not limited to, the senior executive staff
  • Strong self-organization skills
  • Strong leadership skills with experience managing large internal development teams; ability to inspire and motivate

 

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14.09.2022

2D ART DIRECTOR (LATIN AMERICA)

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Become a Devotee!

Devoted Studios is a production management company for external development in video games. With a mission to create equal opportunity for all talent globally to work on the games of their dreams, Devoted Studios aims to decentralize game development. We partner with 1400+ programmers, artists, and designers, from freelancers to small studios, all over the world, and not only match them to project opportunities but manage the production from A-Z.

Major zones of responsibilities:

  • Managing the Art team
  • Review other project from quality and tech consistency and provide
  • Vetting and managing vendors
  • Direct communication with the art teams, clients and partners
  • Providing the video and delivery template feedback for art teams
  • Creating guidelines and technical requirements, pitch guidelines / presentation to the clients
  • Resolves workflow problems for production projects
  • Identifies work process improvements
  • Inspire, motivate, and mentor other artists in best practices, processes, and procedures pertaining to production
  • Ensure that all assets created by the art team and outsource studios conform to the style and technical guidelines
  • Estimation of Pre-production requests
  • Evaluate art content and perform final polishing if required
  • Maintain accurate documentations for the production methodologies and techniques
  • Help to develop best practices for art creation
  • Participate in onboarding process and project setup
  • Trains, assigns, schedules, and coaches internal team
  • Timely Time Tracking

 

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with US-based ADs to ensure best quality of the production and delivery on time and on budget
  • Working with team on the projects (Art Director, Lead Artist, 3D Modeler)
  • Working with the internal team on quality improvements on the projects
  • Communicate in advance to the Producer in case Change Requests are needed or if out of initial estimates, providing reasoning.
  • Providing guidance to the team in case they are behind on way to speed up, optimize production, solve problems
  • Support building and driving the creation of unified production requirements, support streamlining onboarding processes for freelancers (design manuals/videos)
  • Producing proposals, estimates, templates
  • When new requests come in, review database and suggest most fitting talent for the production
  • Based on client materials, put together clear RFPs for the Producer to send out to vendors that will ensure accurate estimates. Come up with and suggest average estimates to vendors for those projects. Review estimates and give recommendations to Producer for the most fitting vendors
  • Interprete external documentation and feedback for the production team
  • Make sure vendor submissions are compliant with Client Delivery Guidelines, Specs and Submission documents.
  • Forward Deliveries to the Producer or Local AD with relevant notes
  • Polish Artworks if they don’t meet the client’s requirements
  • Review deliveries and provide clear feedback, including directions and overpaints
  • Confirm and make sure the deliveries from vendors incorporate fixes from previous feedback rounds.
  • Design tests to quickly understand the skills of artists to get them set up for the projects

Goals:

  • Building strong, motivated, and loyal production teams
  • Illuminating inefficiencies throughout the production process to grow and support distributed asset creation
  • Maintain high-level satisfaction of clients and vendors at all times

Brand:

Maintaining Brand of caring and supportive company around vendors, communicate through established company values
Participating in local events, artists gathering to support talent acquisition

Requirements:

  • Motivation through results
  • Support. We are a tribe and we only talk to each other to rise each other up
  • Proactiveness
  • Transparency
  • Teamwork. The role requires exceptional communicative and leadership skills, the ability to find a compromise with the team
  • Constant growth and learning
  • Conflict mitigation
  • Education and Experience Requirements:
  • 5 years of experience as an art director or creative director
  • 3 years within a game studio environment
  • Background in (Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator)

We offer:

  • Strong and enthusiastic team – you will have the opportunity for knowledge sharing, learning, and professional self-development
  • Interesting and challenging tasks – solve diverse and challenging issues, communicate with people within the company as well as with our partners;
  • Convenient working conditions – remote work, opportunity to build your own working day with flexible working hours
  • А chance to work in a highly professional and dynamic team working with a wide range of International Game Production projects, attractive remuneration package, and opportunities to develop professionall 

    This is a remote, full-time contracted position. We are an equal opportunity company and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for a contract without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

 

Join our Devoted Team

(fill out the form or submit your CV to [email protected])