[Hiring] Art Director @UserWise Services

Role Description

UserWise is looking for an experienced Art Director to own and elevate the visual direction of a premium mobile Free-to-Play game based on a globally recognized entertainment IP. This is a hands-on creative leadership role for someone with exceptional visual judgment, deep experience in mobile casual/F2P games, and the ability to lead a small multidisciplinary art team.

You will own the visual quality of the complete game experience across:

• 2D and 3D art
• UI art
• Characters
• Environments
• Animation
• VFX
• Lighting
• Overall presentation

A key part of this role will be balancing the accessibility and readability of a premium casual mobile game with the spectacle, lighting, personality, excitement, and sense of occasion of a major entertainment property.

The ideal candidate also embraces AI-assisted creative workflows and understands how AI can amplify a talented art team by increasing exploration, accelerating iteration, and allowing artists to focus more time on high-value creative decisions.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as an Art Director, Associate Art Director, Lead Artist, or equivalent visual leadership role in games.
• A portfolio demonstrating an exceptionally strong visual bar and clear artistic judgment.
• Shipped experience on mobile Free-to-Play games.
• Strong experience with casual or mass-market mobile games.
• Proven experience managing and directing multidisciplinary artists.
• Demonstrated ability to direct visual quality across multiple disciplines.
• Strong visual judgment across 2D character and concept art, UI, environments, 3D characters, animation, VFX, lighting, composition, color, and visual hierarchy.
• Ability to provide effective visual feedback through paintovers, mockups, references, or direct iteration.
• Strong understanding of how UI, art, animation, VFX, lighting, and audio combine to create game feel and emotional payoff.
• Experience working closely with UI/UX, game design, product, engineering, and production teams.
• Ability to balance a strong artistic point of view with readability, performance, technical constraints, and production realities.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain not only what should change visually, but why.
• Professional fluency in spoken and written English is required.
• Comfortable working in Unity or closely within a real-time game-engine production environment.
• Comfortable managing a distributed, international team.
• Genuine enthusiasm for adopting and advancing AI-assisted creative workflows.

Requirements

• Explore and incorporate AI tools where they can accelerate ideation, concept development, visualization, reference creation, iteration, and production.
• Help artists use AI as a creative multiplier, not as a substitute for artistic judgment, craftsmanship, or ownership.
• Identify opportunities to reduce repetitive production work and increase the amount of time the team spends on high-value creative decisions.
• Establish workflows that combine AI-assisted exploration with traditional 2D, 3D, UI, animation, VFX, and engine-based production.
• Evaluate emerging tools and techniques based on whether they genuinely improve quality, speed, or creative range.
• Maintain strong artistic standards, visual consistency, and IP integrity as these workflows evolve.

Benefits

• Market-competitive compensation
• Paid Time Off
• Performance Bonus
• Annual Performance Reviews