Senior Game Artist | New Games

King; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global IP exposure

Collaborative art team

Creative ownership of assets

Mobile-focused project

Job summary

King is seeking a Senior Game Artist to shape the visual content for a new mobile IP. You will move from concept sketches to production-ready assets and ensure tight integration with Unity.

Ideal candidates blend stylized design with strong 3D skills and engine knowledge, collaborating with Art Direction and other artists to raise quality and consistency across the project.

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio showing excellent concept art, visual design, and 3D game art.
• Solid 3D production skills including modeling, texturing, materials, and optimization.
• Experience implementing art assets in Unity and real-time mobile constraints.
• Ability to take an asset from concept through final in-engine integration.
• Collaborate with Art Direction to refine visual direction and maintain consistency.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality visual concepts for characters, props, environments, features, events, and gameplay elements.
• Produce stylized, production-ready assets.
• Model, texture, optimize, and prepare assets for Unity.
• Implement and review assets in-engine to meet visual and technical requirements.
• Support visual development and maintain consistency across art style and lighting.

Skills

Concept art

3D modeling

Unity

Asset optimization

Stylized art

Mentoring

Tools

Blender

Photoshop

Clip Studio Paint

Substance Painter

ZBrush

Unity

Job description

Craft

Art

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Game Artistto help define, create, and implement visual content for an IP Centric brand new Mobile Game

This role is ideal for an experienced generalist with strong 2D art foundations who has successfully moved into 3D production and understands how game art lives inside the engine. You will help shape ideas visually, create production-ready assets, and make sure they are implemented correctly in Unity.

The right candidate combines strong artistic taste, stylized visual design, solid 3D skills, and practical engine knowledge. You should be comfortable moving from sketch and concept exploration into modeled, textured, optimized, and integrated game assets, while also helping raise the quality bar for the wider art team. You’ll be a founding generalist and backbone of a new art team - a self starting attitude is essential!

Your role within the Kingdom

• Create high-quality visual concepts for characters, props, environments, features, events, and gameplay elements.

• Produce stylized, production-ready assets

• Work across the full asset pipeline, from idea exploration to engine implementation.

• Model, texture, optimize, and prepare assets for Unity.

• Implement and review assets in-engine to ensure they meet visual and technical requirements.

• Support visual development

• Maintain consistency across art style, scale, readability, materials, and lighting.

• Collaborate with Art Direction to refine visual direction and solve creative challenges.

• Provide clear visual feedback and support to other artists when needed.

• Help improve asset workflows, documentation, and implementation standards.

Collaboration and Integration

• Work closely with Art Direction to maintain the project’s visual quality and style.

• Collaborate with Game Designers to create visuals that support gameplay clarity and player understanding.

• Work with Technical Artists and Unity developers to ensure assets are correctly implemented and optimized.

• Support the team by sharing best practices for asset creation, optimization, and Unity implementation.

• Respond well to feedback and iterate quickly while maintaining quality.

Skills to create thrills

• Strong portfolio showing excellent concept art, visual design, and 3D game art

• Strong drawing, shape language, color, composition, and design skills.

• Solid 3D production skills, including modeling, texturing, materials, and optimization.

• Strong experience implementing art assets in Unity.

• Good understanding of real-time game art constraints and mobile performance requirements.

• Ability to take an asset from concept through final in-engine integration.

• Strong understanding of stylized art pipelines.

• Good knowledge of scale, readability, lighting, materials, and asset consistency in-engine.

• Experience working with established art direction and maintaining visual consistency.

• Ability to troubleshoot asset issues in Unity and collaborate with technical teams.

• Ability to mentor, guide, or support other artists through feedback and best practices.

• Strong communication skills and ability to give and receive constructive feedback.

• Good sense of polish, quality control, and production readiness.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on casual, mobile, or family-friendly games.

• Experience with Blender.

• Experience with Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint, or equivalent concept art tools.

• Experience with Substance Painter, ZBrush, or equivalent 3D art tools.

• Knowledge of basic shaders, materials, lighting, and prefab workflows in Unity.

• Comfort supporting live game features, events, or seasonal content.

• Experience working with basic animation and vfx

What We Offer

• The opportunity to help shape the visual quality of a major global IP on mobile.

• A collaborative art team focused on craft, clarity, and polish.

• The chance to work across concept, 3D production, and in-engine implementation.

• A healthy work culture that values trust, ownership, and teamwork.

Success in this role means ideas are explored clearly, assets are built beautifully, and final art is integrated smoothly into the game.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile titles such as Farm Heroes Saga. Around 200 million people play a King game every month. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn and @lifeatking on Instagram.