Outsourcing Manager (Art)

Description

As an Art Outsourcing Manager you will take primary responsibility of external art outsourcing to create unique and compelling 90+ rated, high-quality visuals from paper planning to implementation. You will collaborate with the in-house art teams, offering leadership, growth, guidance, assistance, and feedback on a regular basis. 

What you’ll be doing:    
 
•    Build, and maintain long term relationships with external art vendors.
•    Work with Sledgehammer Games to define technical and visual execution of art development for externally authored environment, characters, and vehicle assets.
•    Direct external art directors, leads and producers; Provide feedback and support on processes, technical execution and visual quality matching the internal teams.
•    Manage the external art vendor schedules, deliverables, and day-to-day communication between external studios and Sledgehammer Games. 
•    Negotiate asset creation times, estimates, and costs; align scope, budgets, and quality; work with the Studio Art Director and PMG on contracts.
•    Develop the external art pipeline into a highly efficient workflow that maintains quality high while meeting budgetary constraints; work with the Tools team on streamlining redundant processes.
•    Other duties assigned as required.

The skills/experience you’ll need:

•    5+ years’ experience in an Art Manager role or a Technical Art Manager, with solid understanding of art design from a game art production standpoint, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, specifically: game art, tech, scanning and motion capture. 
•    5+ years’ experience in a Production type role, either from building your own company or driving a production environment at a former company, understanding budgets, cost, schedules, milestones and deadlines.
•    Strong visual and technical knowledge within art development.
•    A humble, collaborating type of personality, working with teams; know-how of providing constructive feedback to convince others, relying on objective and practical reasoning’s to why/how/when/what.
•    Great problem solving skills.
•    Ability to communicate well both written and orally.
•    An open mind, think outside-the-box mentality, driving and inventing processes to increase productivity.