Head of Art

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Malaysia.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the commercial success of the Art Delivery business on a global scale, focusing on revenue growth, margin objectives, and long-term scalability.

• Collaborate closely with the sales team to assess, shape, and finalize new business opportunities, ensuring successful delivery structures.

• Engage in client-facing discussions to establish scope, pricing models, delivery strategies, and potential for long-term partnerships.

• Confirm that signed agreements align with operational capabilities, artistic standards, and strategic objectives.

• Develop and implement a forward-thinking strategy for the art business, encompassing service offerings, capacity planning, and market positioning.

• Identify prospects for new capabilities, delivery models, tools, or geographic expansion.

• Build new teams in emerging growth regions.

• Support, develop, and mentor existing teams.

• Keep abreast of industry trends in game art production, outsourcing, and co-development to guide business decisions.

• Design, organize, and deploy cross-functional delivery teams, alongside the Global Art Director, to efficiently meet client requirements.

• Establish scalable structures, workflows, and resource models in collaboration with production and art/codevelopment leadership.

• Ensure clarity of roles, responsibilities, and accountability within the delivery organization.

• Serve as an escalation point for delivery or resourcing challenges, driving solutions that safeguard client relationships and business success.

• Cultivate trusted relationships with key clients as a business and delivery leader.

• Ensure consistent communication and alignment between internal teams and external partners.

• Represent the Art Services business internally, providing clear updates on performance, risks, and opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in game industry services, outsourcing, co-development, or similar delivery-focused settings.

• Proven track record in leading business units, service lines, or large operational teams.

• Strong commercial acumen, including experience with deal structuring, pricing, margin management, and contract execution.

• Demonstrated capability to organize, scale, and deploy teams across various projects and clients.

• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management abilities.

• Strong strategic thinking complemented by hands-on operational execution.

• Superior communication skills in English, both written and verbal.

• Fluency in at least one additional language.

• Experience managing Eastern European teams.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, creative environment with stringent deadlines.

• Familiarity with game development pipelines, from pre-production to post-production.

• A passion for digital art, its creation process, and a desire to share that enthusiasm with others.

• **Preferred:**

• Experience collaborating closely with art, creative, or production leadership in game development.

• Knowledge of 3D art pipelines, asset production workflows, and game development lifecycles.

• Experience supporting AAA and/or large-scale indie game projects.

• Background in distributed or global team environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• A dynamic and creative work environment.

• Opportunities to work on exciting, high-profile projects.

• Professional development and career growth.

• Competitive salary and benefits.

• You will be working for one of the world's leading providers of specialist services to the games industry.