Art Director – Live MMORPG Visuals Leader (Remote)

Camwebdir; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare

Discretionary annual bonus

Minimum 6% Pension contributions

Life Insurance

Enhanced family leave policies

Flexible working hours

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Jagex, the RuneScape Company, has an opening for an experienced Art Director to define and champion the visual direction across RuneScape’s next era. You will own the artistic vision for environments, characters, UI, VFX, lighting and cinematics, guiding a large multidisciplinary team within a live game, PC and mobile.

You will shape the quality bar, mentor artists, and collaborate with Directors to align creativity with production realities and timelines.

Qualifications

• Significant, demonstrable experience in Art Direction or senior art leadership within the games industry, gained on shipped or live titles.
• A proven track record of taking artistic direction from initial vision through to in-game execution, balancing creative ambition with live-service schedules, technical limitations and production realities.
• Proven experience leading a sizeable multidisciplinary art team, including managing performance, developing artists and navigating structural or organisational change.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating artistic vision, visual problem-solving and the ability to establish a consistent quality bar across multiple art disciplines.
• Proven experience joining and improving an established or live game, rather than only defining the direction of new projects from their earliest stages is desired.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve RuneScape’s visual direction, creating a cohesive artistic vision across environments, characters, creatures, UI, VFX, lighting and cinematics while respecting the game’s established identity.
• Lead and develop a large multidisciplinary art team, assessing its structure, capabilities and craft standards to ensure it is set up to deliver at the required quality and pace.
• Establish and maintain a clear quality bar, reviewing work throughout development and providing actionable direction that improves visual consistency and in-game execution.
• Drive end-to-end improvements to RuneScape’s cosmetic content, increasing its quality, consistency and player-perceived value while supporting an important commercial area of the game.
• Partner with the Creative, Development and Product Directors, aligning artistic priorities with gameplay goals, production requirements and the wider Road to Restoration.
• Work closely with Technical Art and Engineering, improving pipelines, tools and workflows while balancing creative ambition with the technical realities of a live game across PC and mobile.
• Champion accessibility, readability and player experience, ensuring visual decisions support clear gameplay and remain effective across platforms.
• Represent the art discipline across RuneScape and the wider studio, contributing to recruitment, talent development and the game’s long-term creative strategy.

Skills

Art Direction

Team Leadership

Visual Direction

3D Pipelines

Live Game Production

Job description

Jagex, the RuneScape Company, has an opening for an experienced Art Director to define and champion the visual direction across RuneScape’s next era. You will own the artistic vision for environments, characters, UI, VFX, lighting and cinematics, guiding a large multidisciplinary team within a live game, PC and mobile.

You will shape the quality bar, mentor artists, and collaborate with Directors to align creativity with production realities and timelines.