Art Director | New Games

Art Director | New Games page is loaded## Art Director | New Gameslocations: London - King - Ampersand: Stockholm - King - Malmskillnadsgatan: Berlin: Barcelona - King - PGtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: R026250**Craft:****Job Description:**# **Your Role Within the Kingdom**As an **Art Director**, you will lead the visual direction and creative quality on a newly developed game experience. You’ll define the artistic vision, set the visual tone, and ensure high-quality execution across all art disciplines from concept to live operations.Unlike traditional leadership-only roles, this position blends **strategic direction with hands-on craft**. You’ll not only inspire teams through vision but also contribute directly to production through prototyping, VFX development, and Unity-based implementation.This is a developmental project and so blends a need to develop the product and and the team itself, ensuring that the team develops into a fully realized organization capable scaling and supporting a successful market-leading live operations free-to-play mobile title.You will partner closely with Product, Design, Tech, and Marketing to deliver visuals that are **innovative, performant, and emotionally resonant**, while staying true to the King brand.# **Your Responsibilities*** **Set and champion** the overall visual vision, ensuring clarity and cohesion across all game elements.* **Work hands-on in Unity and King proprietary tools** to prototype, refine, and implement visual solutions ensuring creative ideas are validated early and iterated quickly.* **Define and drive Visual and VFX direction**, establishing quality benchmarks and ensuring effects enhance gameplay readability, feedback, and delight.* **Collaborate with tech art** to push the limits of Unity’s and King\'s toolset, optimizing for both performance and visual fidelity.* **Establish efficient iteration loops**, ensuring art direction evolves rapidly based on player data, team feedback, and market trends.* **Mentor and develop** artists across disciplines, providing feedback on both creative and technical execution.* Partner with the Design and Product leads to ensure the visual direction enhances the game’s emotional, narrative, and commercial goals.* Balance creative ambition with production realities ensuring deliverables are high-quality, on-time, and optimized for live service workflows.* Reports to the Creative/Product project lead.# **Skills to Create Thrills*** Proven experience as an **Art Director or Senior Artist** in mobile game development.* **Expert proficiency in Unity**, including lighting, materials, shaders, and visual effects.* Strong understanding of **real-time VFX**, particle systems, and animation integration.* Demonstrated ability to **rapidly prototype and iterate** within an engine environment.* A solid portfolio showing a range of **hands-on work** from style exploration to polished implementation.* Clear understanding of **player-centered art direction** balancing clarity, personality, and delight.* Excellent communication and leadership skills, with experience guiding multi-disciplinary teams.* A passion for **craft, collaboration, and continuous improvement**.## **Bonus Points*** Experience shipping live games with continuous content pipelines.* Familiarity with performance profiling and optimization in Unity.* Experience collaborating with motion design, animation, or cinematics teams.* Strong grasp of visual storytelling and how art supports emotional pacing in gameplay.**About King**With a mission of *Making the World Playful*, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as *Farm Heroes Sag*a. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at or by following us on , on Instagram, or on X. #J-18808-Ljbffr