[Hiring] Art Director - Mobile Casual F2P Games @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
• 3D
• 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

• Own and evolve the overall art direction and visual identity of the game.
• Establish and maintain a consistently high visual bar across 2D, 3D, UI, character art, environments, animation, VFX, lighting, and gameplay presentation.
• Ensure the game retains the accessibility of a premium casual title while delivering the stage presence, spectacle, energy, and entertainment value expected from a major IP.
• Review the game holistically and ensure all visual disciplines feel like part of the same cohesive experience.
• Identify areas that feel generic, inconsistent, underdeveloped, or disconnected from the core fantasy and drive them toward stronger solutions.
• Provide clear, actionable visual feedback through art reviews, paintovers, mockups, reference boards, and direct iteration.
• Directly manage and mentor a small multidisciplinary art team spanning 2D, 3D, UI art, characters, environments, and VFX.
• Set clear expectations, priorities, and quality standards while building a healthy culture of constructive critique and iteration.
• Partner with Production on art priorities, capacity, dependencies, and delivery.
• Collaborate closely with Creative Direction, Game Design, UX, Product, Engineering, and Production.
• Work with UI/UX to ensure usability and clarity are supported by strong composition, hierarchy, visual storytelling, and presentation.
• Guide VFX and animation toward a coherent language for anticipation, impact, transitions, rewards, celebration, and game feel.
• Translate established IP and brand pillars into a modern mobile-game visual identity that feels authentic without becoming generic.
• Participate in recruiting, portfolio reviews, and hiring as the art team evolves.

Benefits

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