Art Outsourcing Manager - London, United Kingdom - Splash Damage

Splash Damage

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About Splash Damage
We believe that games play better with friends.

For more than 20 years, we've been creating team-based multiplayer experiences that have entertained tens of millions of players all over the world and forged countless new friendships along the way.

Our studio culture is rooted in our open, friendly, and collaborative environment. Our games are made by people from all over the world, from our entrylevel Fresh Talent hires to industry veterans, and we believe that fostering that diverse culture is the best way to build both our games and our studio. We have won numerous awards, including a 'World-Class' accreditation by Best Companies and being named one of the UK's 100 Best Large Companies to work for.

Our offices are based in Bromley, UK.

Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive benefits package for you and your family, including:

Substantial performance-related pay system on top of your basic compensation, along with enhanced pension contributions and our life assurance scheme.
4 day work week: Tuesday Friday
20 days of annual leave, equivalent to 5 weeks within a 4 day work week.
Summer & Winter closure, not taken from holiday allowance 1st full week of August and Christmas Eve to New Years day.
Bespoke VISA and relocation packages for you and your family, with support from our team throughout the whole process.
Private Medical and Dental Cover for you and your family, along with a 24/7 digital GP service.
Extensive Mental Health support, with Line Manager Mental Health training, a group of Mental Health First-Aiders, and onsite or remote counselling.
Our bespoke Learning and Development course framework to help you grow as an employee, manager, and leader.
Industryleading fully paid 30 weeks maternity leave & 10 weeks paternity leave.

The Role

The Outsource Manager is responsible for facilitating the external creation of high quality content, while maintaining consistency of all external art development as set out by project art direction.

Your focus may span across a number of art sub-disciplines including Character, Cinematics, Concept, Environment, Prop, Technical, Vehicle, Animation, and Weapons.

The role requires a good knowledge and understanding of art pipelines and production methods complimented with a proficient ability in coordinating reviews, feedback, and tracking of art deliveries and progress.

You will manage consistency in the forecasting, and planning of deliverables with both internal and external teams, assist in the organisation and review process of external assets, and demonstrate a mix of excellent communication and leadership skills between the internal and external teams.

Although not essential, if you understand the basic principles of artwork creation this is beneficial.

As an Outsource Manager you also understand the various constraints and challenges during game development, including performance, memory and frame budgets, production schedules, and design requirements.

Responsibilities

Work closely with the Art Director to understand and communicate the expectations for visual quality of ingame art with external teams.
Align closely with the Art Manager and Leads to keep quality and style consistent across all outsourced art.
Coordinate with teams to author briefs, assets packs, and documentation for external teams.
Coordinate with both the internal and external art teams to facilitate the smooth movement of art assets and feedback, while ensuring ontime deliverables to required quality and technical specifications.
Work with game teams to set benchmarks for efficiency and end product quality.
Maintain strong working relationships with external teams.
Works with Art Director and Art Manager to identify, and schedule, assets for external development.
Help set up and document art pipelines, further develop best practices, and continually optimise workflows.
Coordinates the production of documentation and briefs for external teams.
Works with the internal Concept team to ensure concepts are at the right level of quality/detail for briefing external teams.
Help organise and prepare asset packs for our external teams.
Organise and prepare outsourced assets for art reviews with the Art leaders.
Ensure art assets are made available to the internal art team members, and feedback is made available to the external art team members.
Participates in project planning and maintain a clear and consistent schedule in conjunction with Production and Art Manager.

Essential Skills and Experience

Experience as an Artist, Art Producer, Art Manager or equivalent is desired.
Strong Excel skills and ability to create tracking and analysis sheets.
Excellent scheduling, resource allocation and issue solving abilities.
Familiarity working with industry standard task tracking software such as Shotgrid and Jira.
Leadership and management experience; ideally in an external capacity.
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