Lead Producer, Art Outsourcing

Scopely; Canada; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Lead Producer for Art Outsourcing to enhance art production efficiency. In this exciting remote role, you will collaborate with game teams to streamline processes, manage budgets, and optimize art production pipelines. Your expertise will help build strong relationships with partners and improve reporting tools, ensuring the delivery of high-quality art that delights players. Join a passionate team dedicated to creating immersive gaming experiences and make a significant impact in the mobile games industry.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in art production with a focus on optimization.
• Familiarity with various art production pipelines and project tracking software.

Responsibilities

• Streamline and maintain company-wide processes for art production.
• Drive optimization efforts in art-production pipelines and budget tracking.

Skills

Art Production Experience

Project Tracking Software

Art-Production Pipelines

Google Sheets

Excel

Autodesk Flow Production Tracking

Jira

Detail-oriented

Tools

Autodesk Flow Production Tracking

Jira

Job description

Scopely is looking for a Lead Producer, Art Outsourcing to join our Studio Operations team in Canada on a remote basis.

At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.

The Studio Ops Team forms part of the mission to enable our game teams to produce the highest quality art, reach cost reductions, and highest efficiency through art-production excellence and the right partner choices.

What You Will Do

You would assist in creation and testing of new art strategies, vetting partner candidates, and drive optimization efforts of art-production pipelines to ultimately produce and deliver outstanding art to delight our players in an impactful way.

The responsibilities include:

• Participating in streamlining and maintenance of company-wide processes.
• Budget tracking.
• Driving adoption of best-known methods across the board.
• Contributing in information-share initiatives between all the game teams.
• Leveling up Scopely’s Central Outsourcing Program.
• Working with top games in all the important gaming platforms.
• Improving and executing art-outsourcing-budget processes.
• Providing made-to-measure advice to empower our game teams.
• Building and gathering knowledge to our database.
• Creating content and improving our intra information hub.
• Collaborating with other central teams like Finance, InfoSec, IT, and Legal teams.
• Building and nurturing game teams’ and partners’ relationships.
• Improving art production processes with both game teams and external partners.
• Improving reporting tools.
• Proactively communicating with art production across the teams to ensure proper reporting.
• Identifying and suggesting areas for outsourcing cost optimization using data-driven analysis.
• Producing periodic reports on art outsourcing vendors, assets, costs, efficiency, etc.
• Conducting investigations and producing valuable content for Art Directors, Art Managers, and Art Producers in the game teams.
• Finding and vetting new potential art-outsource partners.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of Art Production Experience.
• Wide issue & project tracking software experience.
• Familiarity with a wide variety of art-production pipelines.
• Experience with standard productivity tools such as Google Sheets or Excel.
• Experience with production tools such as Autodesk Flow Production Tracking (formerly ShotGun or ShotGrid) and Jira.
• Experience in interacting with game teams and vendors.
• Familiarity with invoices, contracts, POs, budgets, and technical systems.
• Ability to work well across multiple projects.
• Detail-oriented.

Bonus Points

• Artist background is considered a plus.

About Us

Scopely is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first video game company, home to many top, award-winning experiences such as "MONOPOLY GO!", “Star Trek Fleet Command,” “Stumble Guys,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” and “Yahtzee With Buddies,” among others.

Scopely creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer experience across multiple platforms--from mobile, web, PC and beyond.

Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform Playgami that supports one of the most diversified portfolios in the games industry.

Recognized multiple times as one of Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies,” Scopely is a multi-billion-dollar business due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years.

Scopely has global operations in more than a dozen markets across Asia, EMEA, and North America, and is home to many internal game development teams, referred to as Scopely Studios, with additional game studio partners across four continents.

Scopely was acquired by Savvy Games Group in July 2023 for $4.9 billion, and is now an independent subsidiary of Savvy.

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