Team Lead Game Art
Pin-Up Global is looking for a Team Lead Game Art to oversee the visual production and creative direction of their gaming projects. This role involves managing the art team, ensuring high-quality standards, and optimising production pipelines to deliver engaging game assets.
The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining visual consistency across all game elements while mentoring team members and fostering professional growth within the department. This position requires a blend of artistic expertise, technical proficiency, and strong leadership skills to drive the success of the company's game portfolio.
- Reviewing game concepts, UI designs, illustrations, animations, and other game assets: 2D illustrations, spine animations, UI elements, game screens, symbols, backgrounds, characters, etc.
- Checking game visuals for compliance with quality standards, technical requirements, product expectations.
- Ensuring visual consistency across all game elements and throughout the entire production cycle.
- Ensuring that visual solutions are technically feasible and correctly implemented in the final product.
- Presenting game concepts, visual solutions, prototypes, and final designs to stakeholders and task setters.
- Supervising the development of visual concepts and animations for all games types.
- Organising and maintaining a clear, structured workflow for game projects in figma.
- Improving and scaling the game art production pipeline. optimising team processes and introducing new tools, technologies, and approaches.
- Generating ideas for improving game visuals, user experience, animation quality, and overall product presentation.
- Constantly researching and analysing game art trends, competitors, casino products, slot providers, and player preferences.
- Collaborating with your team, project managers, product managers, developers and other stakeholders.
- Distributing tasks within the team based on priorities, workload, and team members expertise.
- Estimating art production timelines and supporting project planning. identifying production risks and resolving visual, technical, and organisational issues.
- Providing regular reports on the Game Art team's performance.
- Providing clear feedback and conducting regular art reviews.
- Mentoring team members and supporting their professional development.
- Conducting performance reviews of team members.
- Holding one-on-one meetings with team members.
- Participating in hiring. interviewing new team members, reviewing portfolios and resumes.
- Approving team members’ overtime and days off.
- 5+ years of experience in GameDev, including 1+ year in a leadership position (required)
- Strong portfolio demonstrating experience in games development (required)
- Strong knowledge of composition, colour theory, typography, visual hierarchy, and user-centred design principles (required)
- Deep understanding in game development lifecycle (required)
- Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (required)
- Solid understanding of Spine animation (ability to review and provide feedback) (required)
- Experience with AI-powered design tools and workflow automation (required)
- Strong understanding of technical requirements for game assets (required)
- Experience planning workloads, prioritising tasks, and managing multiple projects simultaneously (required)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on process improvement (required)
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to changing business priorities (required)
- Experience in the iGaming industry (nice-to-have)
- An exciting and challenging job in a fast-growing business group.
- Opportunity to be part of a multicultural team of top professionals in Development, Architecture, Management, Operations, Marketing, Legal, Finance and more.
- Great working atmosphere with passionate experts and leaders, sharing a friendly culture and a success-driven mindset is guaranteed.
- Beautiful offices in Warsaw, Limassol, Yerevan - work remotely or on-site with comfort and enjoy the opportunity to build a network of connections with professionals day by day.
- Modern corporate equipment based on macOS or Windows and additional equipment are provided.
- Paid vacations, sick leave, personal event days, days off.
- Corporate health insurance program for your well-being.
- Referral program - enjoy cooperation with your colleagues and get a bonus.
- Educational programs: regular internal training sessions, compensation for external education, attendance of specialized global conferences.
- Rewards program for mentoring and coaching colleagues.
- In-house Travel Service.
- Multiple internal activities: online platform for employees with quests, gamification, presents and news, RedCore clubs for movie/book/pets lovers, special office days dedicated to holidays.
- Company events, team buildings.
PIN-UP Global is an international holding company that develops technologies, B2B solutions and products for the iGaming industry. Headquartered in Warsaw, the group brings together businesses spanning product development, technology and marketing services for online gaming. It supports a portfolio of companies and brands operating across multiple markets. PIN-UP Global focuses on building advanced technology and products for the gambling sector.