Art Team Lead
Games Global is looking for an Art Team Lead to join the team and lead the delivery of high-quality creative work. In this role, the successful candidate will support and develop the team, encourage collaboration, drive results, and help create a positive and innovative working environment.
The Art Team Lead will balance day-to-day delivery with a strategic mindset, making sound decisions, adapting to change, and ensuring the team produces great work that meets quality and business goals.
- Actively sets the direction for new developmental projects in the team.
- Maintains a thorough knowledge of all applications and pipelines supported by the Creative Service Team.
- Collaborates with team members to ensure that all new developed products on the production pipeline have a template archived and white paper documented.
- Provides training and on-going support for new Creative Service team members.
- Helps to maintain the project schedule, assigns relevant resources and facilitates information flow between relevant parties to ensure project deliverables and deadlines are understood and agreed.
- Researches industry best practices, establishes benchmarks and initiates processes and workflow improvements where necessary.
- Co-ordinates and communicates all deliverables to ensure that all project deadlines are met.
- Assists in mentoring and training programmes for the team.
- Effectively allocates appropriate resources to projects to ensure that project deadlines and requirements are met.
- Ensures that company issues, policies and procedures are communicated to the team within 7 days.
- Ensures that the team business plan is aligned with the company strategy and working towards achieving the strategy.
- Ensures that the team members are equipped with the requisite skill set required for both current and future projects by developing a training and career development plan for each team member.
- Communicates professionally and effectively with managers and international partners.
- Conducts performance appraisals of team members, taking into account peer and manager feedback.
- Monitors performance of team members on an ongoing basis and takes effective steps to deal with non-performance.
- Oversees all aspects of the team by facilitating and resolving issues through effective problem solving and communication skills.
- Provides feedback to the Creative Manager on a regular basis regarding team performance and project progress.
- Conducts the necessary research to understand project scope.
- Collaborates with the team and Creative Manager on software requirements, such as initial layouts, colour choices and basic design of interface.
- Facilitates the creation of game interfaces ensuring design meets software and interface functionality requirements.
- Ensures technical knowledge is shared and applied in the design of high-quality graphics to ensure all functional requirements are met.
- Ensures brand integrity is maintained throughout the design process.
- Ensures final graphics are quality assured as per requirement specification and team standards.
- Ensures that all written communication is concise and clear, and that ideas and information are clearly conveyed.
- Communicates effectively and appropriately with internal and external parties.
- Clarifies the importance and purpose of communication.
- Gathers appropriate information in order to review progress.
- Provides feedback and meets with others to review the results of assigned work.
- Communicates respectfully and professionally to ensure the brand of the company is maintained and upheld at all times.
- Relevant tertiary qualification (required)
- 7+ years experience in a creative role (required)
- Previous experience in a senior or leadership role (preferred)
Games Global is a business-to-business supplier of online casino games and content, headquartered in Douglas, Isle of Man. Established in 2021, it acquired Microgaming's iGaming portfolio and Quickfire distribution business in 2022, giving it one of the largest slot-game catalogues in the industry - thousands of titles distributed to hundreds of operators. The company aggregates content from its own studios and a network of independent developers, supplying regulated markets worldwide. It was founded by former IGT and Lottomatica executive Walter Bugno.