RESPONSIBILITIES
- Explore designs for environment, props and characters based on narrative and design needs, and present rough sketches to stakeholders.
- Render artwork matching the established art style
- Generate orthos for characters
- Create 2d rendered images such as icons, modals and title screen to be implemented into the game.
- Understand the technical limitation of our pipeline and work within those constraints.
- Work alongside your broader art team to brainstorm ideas and pass work between other artists.
- May be called upon to collaboratively solve design or product issues with individuals from those disciplines.
REQUIREMENTS
- 3+ years of game experience as a concept artist.
- Versatile art style.
- Can create rough and highly polished 2D artwork.
- Good understanding of the 3D art pipeline.
- Great comprehension of human and animal anatomy.
- Excellent at posing characters to communicate actions and emotions.
- Can easily bring artworks to a fully rendered look, with a great understanding of lighting and materials.
- Complete mastery of Maya and Adobe Creative Suite.
- Hungry for problem solving.
- Art Degree or similar working experience.
NICE TO HAVE
- Unity knowledge.
- Ability to sketch using 3D software.
- Experience texturing in Substance Painter.
Skills Required
- Provide a link to an online portfolio, website, or PDF showcasing recent artwork
- 3+ years of game experience as a concept artist
- Versatile art style
- Ability to create rough and highly polished 2D artwork
- Good understanding of the 3D art pipeline
- Great comprehension of human and animal anatomy
- Excellent at posing characters to communicate actions and emotions
- Ability to bring artworks to a fully rendered look with strong understanding of lighting and materials
- Complete mastery of Maya
- Complete mastery of Adobe Creative Suite
- Hungry for problem solving
- Art degree or similar working experience
- Unity knowledge
- Ability to sketch using 3D software
- Experience texturing in Substance Painter
Jam City Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Jam City and has not been reviewed or approved by Jam City.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare options are consistently characterized as strong, including medical, dental, vision, FSA, and life insurance. Solid coverage is highlighted as a plus across benefits descriptions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous or “unlimited” PTO alongside paid holidays, sick leave, bereavement, and parental leave is widely listed. These time-off provisions are positioned as strengths even when base pay may not be top-of-market.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Perks such as pet-friendly offices, commuter benefits, snacks/drinks, company events, and wellness activities are commonly showcased. Remote/hybrid options further support day-to-day flexibility and work–life balance.
Jam City Insights
What We Do
Jam City is an award-winning entertainment company providing unique and deeply engaging mobile games that are played by tens of millions of people across the globe. Led by CEO Chris DeWolfe, former MySpace co-founder and CEO, and COO Josh Yguado, former 20th Century Fox executive, Jam City is the creative powerhouse behind some of the highest-grossing and most enduring mobile games. Jam City’s global franchise Cookie Jam has generated more than half a billion dollars, and Panda Pop has more than 120 million downloads to date. The company also is the go-to studio for Hollywood, having developed immersive, narrative-rich mobile games around iconic entertainment brands. The company’s popular RPG game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery was the #1 game in more than 40 countries at its launch in April 2018. Jam City has nine studios located in Los Angeles (HQ), Berlin, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Burbank, Cedar Falls, San Diego, San Francisco, and Toronto. The Jam City team is known for its creative excellence and technological innovation in key areas including storytelling, data science and audience insights.
