Art Director

the hive; Greater London; Ibrido; GBP 85.000 - 110.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

The Hive in London is seeking an Art Director to set the visual language of a game and ensure consistency across all assets and partners.

You will lead reviews across disciplines—concept, 3D, UI, VFX and lighting—while mentoring the team and guiding outsourcing.

This leadership role involves hiring, setting style guidelines, and protecting the game's visual direction from off-brand work.

Competenze

• Review and provide feedback across disciplines — concept, 3D, UI, VFX, lighting.
• Set schedules and quality standards for external partners.
• Leadership duties include hiring and mentoring.

Mansioni

• Review and feedback across disciplines — concept, 3D, UI, VFX, lighting.
• Art direction leadership with ownership of visual consistency across the game.
• Hiring, mentoring and ensuring the visual style is followed by all teams and outsourcing partners.

Descrizione del lavoro

Art directors set the visual language of a game and keep every asset, every artist and every outsourcing partner inside it.

The art director decides what a game looks like and why: colour, shape language, lighting, how far the style sits from realism, and how all of it supports the gameplay. That direction has to survive contact with production, so it is written down in style guides and reference boards rather than kept in one person's head.

The daily work is review and feedback across disciplines — concept, 3D, UI, VFX, lighting — plus the schedule and the quality bar for external partners. Art direction is a leadership role: it includes hiring, mentoring and saying no to work that is good but off-style.

Where a lead artist runs one discipline and a creative director owns the whole product vision, the art director owns the visual result across the game and answers for its consistency.

Side, London England United Kingdom (GB)