Senior Art Director: Lead Creative Vision & Production

Kinetic Games Limited; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid & Flextime Working

Relocation Package (within the UK only

Vitality Health Insurance

Aviva Life Insurance

30 days Holiday in Total

Annual Bonus

Weekly Free Team Lunches

Training & Development Budget

Personal Wellbeing Allowance

Job summary

Kinetic Games Limited seeks an experienced Art Director to lead the artistic execution of our games and shape the art department as the studio grows. Working with the Game Director and leadership, you will translate the creative vision into a clear visual direction and maintain high standards across all art disciplines.

You will move between creative direction, people leadership, and production planning, ensuring art pipelines meet technical and schedule constraints while delivering high-quality

Qualifications

• Shipping experience on AAA/AA or high-production games in a senior art leadership role.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary art teams through development and shipment.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating visual design, composition, lighting and colour mastery.
• Understanding real-time rendering, optimisation and constraints.
• Ability to balance artistic ambition with production realities and schedules.
• Experience with Unity or Unreal Engine pipelines and tools.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall visual execution within the studio's creative vision.
• Translate high-level direction into actionable visual targets and guidelines.
• Lead environment, character, animation, VFX, UI, concept and technical art.
• Maintain a consistent quality bar across all visuals and playtest results.
• Provide clear feedback and direction throughout development.
• Collaborate with Technical Art and Engineering on pipelines and standards.
• Work with Production to scope art requirements and milestones.
• Mentor artists and contribute to recruitment and team structure.

Skills

Art leadership

People management

Production planning

Art direction

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Feedback and review

Asset pipelines

Tools

Unity

Unreal Engine

Job description

Kinetic Games Limited seeks an experienced Art Director to lead the artistic execution of our games and shape the art department as the studio grows. Working with the Game Director and leadership, you will translate the creative vision into a clear visual direction and maintain high standards across all art disciplines.

You will move between creative direction, people leadership, and production planning, ensuring art pipelines meet technical and schedule constraints while delivering high-quality