Associate Art Director – RuneScape Dragonwilds

Overview

As Associate Art Director for RuneScape: DragonWilds, you steer art direction across Unreal Engine 5 and uphold a unified quality bar for internal and external assets. You collaborate with leaders to translate vision into practical pipelines and deliver assets on schedule. You act as a gatekeeper of visual quality, guiding the art team and outsourcing partners to maintain consistency with the game’s artistic direction. This role blends hands-on mentorship, cross-team collaboration, and strategic process development to shape a living, evolving world.

Pay / Benefits

• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan
• Discretionary annual performance bonus
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions
• Life Insurance
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1
• Flexible working hours

Responsibilities

• Set the artistic vision with Art Director and Executive Producer to align with design, product, and marketing
• Own and maintain the quality bar for all assets across internal and external artists
• Contribute to style guides and clearly communicate vision to the team
• Lead feedback sessions with artists to lift asset quality
• Define and drive best practices and pipelines for game art content creation, including outsourcing
• Coordinate with production to plan and schedule asset delivery across the game

Key requirements

• Portfolio demonstrating art direction capability
• Extensive end-to-end game development experience from concept to live game on PC or console
• Proven ability to communicate and propagate artistic vision to teams and stakeholders
• Experience growing and managing multidisciplinary art and animation teams on a live product
• Ability to document and present industry best practices and critique assets/workflows
• Hands-on mentoring in at least two areas of art/animation and knowledge of modern workflows across disciplines
• Strong understanding of art fundamentals (anatomy, composition, lighting, perspective)

• communication
• mentoring
• leadership
• Unreal Engine 5
• art direction and style guide creation
• outsourcing pipelines

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