Technical Art Director

Description

Spark is looking for a Technical Art Director to join us in making a breakout hit based on an established console franchise. This is an opportunity for you to have a hand in creating a bold new take on 3rd person action slasher with horror elements for the PS3 and Xbox360. The Technical Art Director will play a key role in establishing and maintaining the production pipelines. The ideal candidate must collaborate with content development teams to bridge technical and artistic challenges throughout production. They should have an expertise and knowledge of how to make the game run within a set budget.

Responsibilities
• Coordinate with content driven departments to ensure an efficient production based environment.
• Specify and develop art production tools that meet artists' needs in order to establish, diagnose and correct content creation pipelines. Maintain pipeline efficiency from art source creation to in-game integration.
• Coordinate art and engineering department overlap to ensure artists are following the latest best practices.
• Identify ways to increase efficiencies in artist workflow and production pipelines. Design user-friendly solutions for a variety of technical challenges.
• Oversee and implement optimization of levels.
• Manage and create budgets for levels.
• Responsible for managing memory and framerate in all levels.
• Lead and manage other technical artists. Drive the department to consistently meet project deadlines in a timely manner without compromising artistic integrity.
• Work collaboratively with all levels of the development team, including active participation in Spark’s agile-development process. Cultivate a positive team dynamic, and exhibit a professional attitude by demonstrating a good balance between creativity and practical flexibility.