Lead Producer, Art Outsourcing

Scopely; Canada; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Lead Producer for Art Outsourcing to enhance their Studio Operations team. This role involves creating and testing innovative art strategies, optimizing production pipelines, and fostering collaboration between game teams. The ideal candidate will have extensive art production experience, exceptional communication skills, and a knack for organization. Join a passionate team dedicated to delivering outstanding art that captivates players worldwide. If you're ready to make a significant impact in the mobile games industry, this opportunity is perfect for you!

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in art production with excellent communication skills.
• Proficient in project tracking software and standard productivity tools.

Responsibilities

• Assist in creation and testing of new art strategies and vetting partner candidates.
• Drive optimization efforts of art-production pipelines and budget tracking.

Skills

Art Production Experience

Communication Skills

Project Tracking Software

Detail Oriented

Organization Skills

Tools

Google Sheets

Excel

Autodesk Flow Production Tracking

Jira

Job description

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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, and contributing in information-share initiatives between all the game teams.

Great communication skills and diplomatic tactfulness are paramount in this role as a big part of the work is about building new bridges for collaboration and beneficial synergies between different game teams and central teams.

• Level up Scopely’s Central Outsourcing Program.
• Work with top games in all the important gaming platforms.
• Improve and execute art-outsourcing-budget processes.
• Provide made-to-measure advice to empower our game teams.
• Build and gather knowledge to our database.
• Create content and improve our intra information hub.
• Collaborate with other central teams like the Finance, InfoSec, IT, and the Legal teams.
• Build and nurture game teams’ and partners’ relationships.
• Improve art production processes with both game teams and external partners.
• Improve reporting tools.
• Proactively communicate with art production across the teams to ensure proper reporting.
• Identify and suggest areas for outsourcing cost optimization using data driven analysis.
• Produce periodic reports on art outsourcing vendors, assets, costs, efficiency etc.
• Conduct investigation and produce valuable content for Art Directors, Art Managers and Art Producers in the game teams.
• Find and vet new potential art-outsource partners.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of Art Production Experience
• Wide issue & project tracking software experience
• Familiarity of 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
• Excellent communication skills
• Detail oriented
• Great organization skills

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.

For more information on Scopely, visit: scopely.com.

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