Senior Character Art Outsourcing Supervisor - Unannounced Survival Game

Company: Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
Location: Irvine
Posted on: May 28, 2023

Job Description:

Team Name:
Unannounced Project

Job Title:
Senior Character Art Outsourcing Supervisor - Unannounced Survival Game

Requisition ID:
R020515

Job Description:

Senior Character Art Outsourcing Supervisor - Unannounced Survival Game

Location: This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Irvine, CA.

We Want You

A new world and a new journey await you. It is a world different from any other Blizzard has created.

If you're a passionate game developer, and, well, a good human being, then we'd love to talk to you. We have a new AAA survival game in the works, set in a new IP for PC/Console. It's going to be amazing, and we'd love to bring you along for the ride. Together, we'll build something big, bold, and beautiful.

Your Mission

As a Senior Character Art Outsource Supervisor, you will manage communication and provide feedback to external artists, help maintain a strong creative relationship between external and internal art teams, and generate detailed documentation, video reference, and examples of art asset production, procedures, and engine requirements to support the external vendors.

We believe our team is good. Really good. Granted, we're obviously biased. But we also believe there are lots of developers out there who can make us even better. You could be one of those people. If you're looking for a team where inclusion, thoughtfulness, empathy, professionalism, and collaboration are all seen as critically important, we believe our team could be a phenomenal fit for you. Join us and help craft our future!

You can learn a bit more about this upcoming Unannounced Survival Game in our news release here!

Responsibilities

• Manage communication and provide feedback to artists, help maintain a strong creative relationship between external and internal art teams.
• Generate detailed documentation, video reference, and examples of art asset production, procedures, and engine requirements to support the external vendors.
• Own the quality control over all incoming character art assets, providing detailed feedback and approvals to the vendor in order to deliver quality assets to the development team.
• Implement approved assets into the game engine, along with making any needed fixes to keep assets consistent and game ready.
• Work closely with the outsource art director, art director, character art lead and production team to determine outsourcing needs.
• Coordinate with the outsource art director and producers to schedule and track incoming assets.
  
  Requirements:
  
  • 8+ years of experience working on AAA games or equivalent education and/or work experience.
  • Experience in game art asset creation in a variety of software packages including Maya, Zbrush, Photoshop and Substance Painter.
  • Strong character art creation such as characters, creatures and weapons experience and skills a must.
  • Clear and concise communication and people skills.
  • Must be highly organized, self-driven, customer focused, and a great team player.
  • Understanding of the visual style of Blizzard games and a passion to push it to the next level.
  • Have shipped AAA PC or console title as an artist.
  • Candidate must be well organized, and process driven with strong mentorship mindset.
    
    Pluses
    
    • Experience working with outsourcing teams.
    • Experience working as environment artist or 3D generalist.
    • Experience in an art director or lead role.
    • Experience in management.
    • Fluency in a language other than English, including Chinese, German, Spanish, Italian, or Russian.
      
      We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.
      
      We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.
      
      Our World
      
      At Blizzard Entertainment, we pour our hearts and souls into everything we create. Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, we've been creating genre-defining games for millions of players around the world for more than 30 years. We're on a quest: bring our dreams to life and craft the most epic entertainment experiences...ever. Hard work, iteration and polish go into the Blizzard "secret recipe," but the most important ingredients come from talented people who share our vision. If that sounds like you, join us.
      
      The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.
      
      We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.
      
      Rewards
      
      We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:
      
      • Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
      • 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
      • Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
      • Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
      • If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.
        
        Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.
        
        In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $80,800.00 - $149,400.00 Annual. This base pay range is for the U.S. and is not applicable to locations outside of the U.S. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.

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