Art Lead, New Game (AAA RPG)

Responsibilities

• Art Direction & Visual Quality
• Uphold and evolve the game's visual identity, tone, and worldbuilding
• Ensure a cohesive visual experience across characters, environments, VFX, and UI
• Apply strong understanding of:
• Composition (visual, gameplay, and cinematic)
• Lighting, materials, and atmosphere
• Environmental storytelling and realism
• External Studio Leadership
• Partner with our external development studio to guide and coordinate art quality across characters, environments, VFX, UI, and more to achieve AAA-quality output
• Help establish and maintain efficient art workflows, feedback loops, and quality standards across time zones
• Translate creative vision into clear, actionable direction for external teams
• Quality Bar & Visual Development
• Perform paintovers, visual callouts, and written feedback to elevate the art to a AAA-quality bar
• Identify visual risks early and proactively course-correct to maintain style, readability, and polish
• Help define and uphold the game's visual style, ensuring consistency across all art deliverables
• Art → Game Translation
• Work closely with Tech Art, Design, and Production to ensure:
• Art is fully functional in-engine
• Assets meet performance and gameplay readability standards
• Bridge the gap between:
• Concept art
• Final in-game execution
• Feedback & Communication
• Review art submissions and playtest builds to provide concise, actionable feedback that is clear, respectful, and actionable
• Translate high-level creative direction into concrete, production-ready visual guidance for our Shanghai studio
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure art supports gameplay and performance needs
• IP Holder Collaboration
• Partner with our IP holder to establish visual guidelines, approvals, and feedback
• Clearly interpret and relay art feedback to the development team, helping them understand intent and constraints
• Ensure all art content aligns with established IP canon, while still meeting gameplay needs and driving towards a world-class player experience

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional game art experience, with at least 2+ years in a lead or senior role
• Experience working on AAA action RPGs or fantasy titles or high-end action RPGs on mobile or PC
• 3D Game Development Expertise and deep understanding of real-time game development
• Strong visual fundamentals (composition, color, lighting, anatomy, material definition)
• Comfortable doing hands-on paintovers and async visual problem-solving
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially for giving clear, constructive feedback
• Experience working with established IPs and navigating approval pipelines
• Experience working with teams in China or across multiple time zones
• Familiarity with Unity pipelines and tooling
• Passion for low-fantasy / grounded worlds
• Mandarin proficiency
• Please include a portfolio or PDF/links to examples of your work in the application.
• About Scopely
• Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team - including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely's position as the #1 mobile games comp

Benefits

Additional Information

Scopely is looking for an Art Lead to join our Slate Development Group in the UK on a hybrid or remote basis! At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily. We are developing a AAA action RPG based on a world-renowned IP, and we're looking for a Principal Artist who combines strong artistic authority, deep worldbuilding sensibility, and hands-on 3D game development expertise.

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