Senior Staff Concept Artist

Description

The Sony Santa Monica Studio is hiring for an unannounced new IP!

We are an open and creative environment that strives to make the best games in the industry. Join us as we embark on our next project!

Overall, the position of Senior Concept Artist is expected to partner with the organization to:

Responsibilities:

Is a contributor to the development of the artistic techniques and processes utilized to define and achieve a product's visual style or encourage artistic evolution within the studio. This entails expanding methods to improve the production pipeline, tools, systems and visual integrity

Maintains the artistic goals and vision through all phases of the game development cycle from pre-production through final product release. This entails ensuring visual development assets are of the highest artistic quality and uphold the integrity of the games design and artistic vision of the game as a whole

Maintain a good knowledge of the games design to facilitate communication and enable early identification of issues

Undertakes research and information gathering prior to the commencement of a new task to ensure game design needs, reference materials, artistic direction and technological considerations are effectively managed to meet defined goals

Facilitates requests or information needs regarding any aspect of the visual development creation process as requested

Capable of resolving a range of complex artistic development issues for both artists as well as other team members

Actively improves skill set and abilities by keeping aware of industry trends and techniques, evaluating competitive products, learning new software packages and traditional art methods.

Possess strong time management and prioritization skills. This entails collaborating with the Production group to coordinate task lists to ensure assignments are progressing as expected according to schedules, milestones and overall project goals

Clearly communicate updates and properly escalate concerns to the appropriate team member(s) and manager(s)