Electronic Arts is seeking a video game Art Director to help lead the visual experience across its Sims products.

You'll guide a clear aesthetic vision and promote it across internal and partner organisations.

Responsibilities:

• Define, uphold, and communicate the visual direction and quality bar for the product across the art team and partners.
• Maintain visual guides to ensure cohesion and consistency across art disciplines during production.
• Collaborate with other Art Directors to deliver unified visuals across domains.
• Contribute to presentations on content strategy that align to product goals and the player experience.
• Uphold and communicate art priorities in sync with product goals to art teams.
• Support artists as a People Manager by creating conditions for growth, clarity, accountability, and strong performance.
• Foster creativity, transparency, and collaboration across the team.
• Identify training and knowledge-sharing opportunities that increase artist and lead capability.
• Drive objectives for Art teams to ensure growth, knowledge sharing, and foster a culture of transparency.
• Grow art leaders to oversee high-level goals and improve results, pipelines, and processes.
• Partner with Internal Outsourcing leadership partners to ensure quality, consistency, and delivery.
• Collaborate with Art Directors, Leads, Technical Art, and Engineering to refine pipeline, workflows, and drive innovation.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in game development and at least one shipped AAA title as an Art Director.
• Experience managing artists or other game developers.
• Demonstrated people leadership philosophy with experience developing talent.
• Experience establishing and pitching an art vision and guidelines.
• Experience translating Product goals into a clear, executable direction.
• Understanding of all aspects of contemporary 3D game development: concept art, character modelling, prop modelling, environment modelling, lighting, animation, visual effects, and user interface design.
• Experienced in working with team partners to create content plans.
• Sense for visual storytelling, composition, form, and palette.

Benefits: Electronic Arts supports a balanced life with a comprehensive benefits program that emphasises physical, emotional, financial, professional, and community well-being.