Art Director

Team Up; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Real creative ownership

Hybrid work in Kraków

Shape AI art pipeline

Job summary

Team Up in Kraków is seeking a hands-on Art Director to own the visual direction of our new slots and hyper-casual 3D games with a gambling twist. You’ll set the art direction and create a large portion of the art yourself, leveraging AI tools when they speed up production.

You will collaborate with the game producer and developers to ship art-ready assets, lead external studios, and gradually bring more work in-house. Start January 2027, hybrid Kraków office 1–2 days a week.

Qualifications

• Experience creating art for slots or casino games.
• Strong hands-on Photoshop skills for symbols, backgrounds and paint-overs.
• Spine animation: rigging and animating.
• Practical experience with AI art tools and building workflows around them.
• Experience briefing and leading external art studios.
• Ability to maintain a consistent look across multiple art styles.
• Availability to work from Kraków office 1-2 days a week.

Responsibilities

• Set the art direction and visual style for new games, from first sketch to release.
• Produce art yourself: symbols, backgrounds, characters and paint-over in Photoshop.
• Design game UI: layout, hierarchy and colour.
• Animate in Spine: rigging, animating and fixing files coming from AI tools and external studios
• Build the AI art workflow from scratch - generation, paint-over, prompts, pipelines and reusable setups that end in Spine-ready assets
• Work side by side with the game producer and developers to get art into the games
• Lead external art studios (briefs, feedback, quality control) and bring more of the work in-house over time

Skills

Slots art

Photoshop hands-on

Spine animation

AI art workflows

Art direction

External studios management

Multi-style guidance

Kraków in-office availability

Tools

Spine

Job description

Our client is a Kraków-based game studio building slots and casino games. They are launching two new product lines - classic slots and a brand-new line of hyper-casual 3D games with a gambling twist - and are looking for a hands-on Art Director to own the visual side.

This is not a role for someone who only reviews other people's work. You will set the art direction and make a big part of the art yourself - using AI tools wherever they speed things up, and your own skills where they don't.

Your role

• Set the art direction and visual style for new games, from first sketch to release
• Produce art yourself: symbols, backgrounds, characters and paint-over in Photoshop
• Design game UI: layout, hierarchy and colour
• Animate in Spine: rigging, animating and fixing files coming from AI tools and external studios
• Build the AI art workflow from scratch - generation, paint-over, prompts, pipelines and reusable setups that end in Spine-ready assets
• Work side by side with the game producer and developers to get art into the games
• Lead external art studios (briefs, feedback, quality control) and bring more of the work in-house over time

Offer

• Senior, full-time role on a B2B contract
• Hybrid work in Kraków - around 1-2 days a week in the office for brainstorming and fast iterations with the team
• Real creative ownership in a small team, with direct contact with the CEO, game producer and developers
• A chance to shape the look and the AI art pipeline of brand-new game lines
• Start: January 2027

Requirements

Must have:

• Experience creating art for slots or casino games
• Strong hands-on skills - symbols, backgrounds, characters and paint-over in Photoshop - visible in your portfolio
• Spine animation: rigging and animating
• Practical experience with AI art tools and building workflows around them
• Experience briefing and leading external art studios
• Comfort working across many art styles while keeping one consistent look per game
• Availability to work from the Kraków office 1-2 days a week

Nice to have:

• Experience with hyper-casual or 3D games