Outsourcing Associate Art Director

Description

BioWare (www.bioware.com), a member of the incredible family of EA studios, has created some of the world's best-selling titles including the award-winning Baldur's Gate, the Neverwinter Nights series, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Original BioWare-created IPs include Jade Empire, the critically acclaimed Mass Effect franchise, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood for the Nintendo DS and epic fantasy RPG Dragon Age franchise. BioWare is hard at work on Mass Effect 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic, our massively multiplayer online game being developed at BioWare Austin.

BioWare’s games have continually achieved critical and commercial success. All of our published titles are highly rated at www.gamerankings.com; in fact we have 6 games in the top 1% highest rated games of all time! Today BioWare has over 800 staff at its locations and continues to grow.


Responsibilities:

• Manages and facilitates the art outsourcing process from brief to successful implementation in-game.
• Collate feedback from BioWare discipline leads and provide timely, clear and consistent feedback to outsource partners.
• Maintains an awareness of artist tasks, risks and related design and technical dependencies with regard to outsourced content.
• Works with art directors, project management team and other studios to coordinate the milestone schedule and contribute to on-time game delivery.
• Maintains contact with off-site teams and contractors to ensure quality and deadlines are met.
• Takes an active role in preproduction and planning of the project.
• Proactively identifies risks associated with meeting project milestones. Ensures necessary and appropriate steps are taken to resolve difficulties which may impede progress or compromise achievement of project's objectives.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with outsource partners.
• In conjunction with project Art Direction team: continual investigation of potential partners globally and the ability to conduct due diligence from an artistic standpoint.
• Keep track of partner art quality by conducting ongoing due diligence of portfolios in conjunction with other EA studios.
• Makes recommendations on process/tool changes to ensure timely, efficient delivery of art assets