The Role
Design visuals and characters for games, optimize user interfaces, research visual effects, and provide visual direction while managing art style and team feedback.
Summary Generated by Built In
I. KEY JOB DUTIES
1. Art Production as a Senior 2D Game Artist (80%)
- Create/participate in concept art, key UI screens, main characters, and high-level assets.
- Ensure visual quality and consistency across the product.
- Keep up with art trends, propose creative improvements and contribute innovative ideas to enhance product development.
- Organize, arrange, and manage the image library for the team.
- Optimize images, sizes, and dimensions to enhance visual quality and performance.
- Support the exporting of images/animations for the Unity engine.
- Stay abreast of industry trends, themes, and new artistic styles.
2. Other duties (20%)
- Define overall art direction (style, color, tone & mood).
- Provide visual direction for the product to meet market demands.
- Provide feedback and mentor the junior artist team (2D/3D/Animator).
- Collaborate with Game Designers/Producers to balance art & gameplay.
- Can apply animation & VFX (Spine/After Effect) at intermediate level
II. EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENT / SKILLS / ATTRIBUTES
KNOWLEDGE:
- Have domain knowledge in the game development process.
- Strong technical foundation in visual design and user experience (UX).
- In-depth understanding of design principles, visuals, color theory, and user psychology.
- Knowledge of design language: materials, color, space, lighting, depth, movement, etc.
- Solid understanding of concept art and environment design.
SKILL:
- Strong art technical skills
- AI adoption mindset: able to apply generative AI tools and maintain a positive, forward-thinking perspective on AI integration in the creative process
- Demonstrate strong leadership & management skill
- Intermediate English skills
- 5 years of experience as a Game Artist.
ABILITIES
- Strong Emotional Intelligence is significant
- Keen artistic eye and attention to detail.
- Pioneering spirit with creative and unique thinking.
- Ability to receive constructive criticism and implement amendments based on feedback.
- Experience working under pressure and consistently meeting deadlines.
- Excellent communication and teamwork to effectively collaborate with team members.
- Willingness to share ideas and knowledge.
- Growth mindset: Can-do attitude, eagerness to learn, and persistence in the face of setbacks.
- Ability to adapt to various art genres, themes, and styles.
- Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
PLUS POINT (NICE TO HAVE)
- A strong interest in Puzzle and Casual games art is a plus.
- A love of playing mobile games and sensitivity to the user experience is a plus.
- Certification in UX Design is advantageous.
- Understanding of various game genres and trends is a plus.
III. WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE
- Professional, creative working environment and talented teams, equal-opportunities & agile culture
- Great facility to work. You will have a MacBook and extra high definition screens
- Electrical standing desk for most comfortable seat
- Annual leave 12 days / sick leave 2 days / remote work 12 days / anniversary leave 1 day
- Paternity Leave policy offers more than 10 days of Paid leave, not including days-off.
- Remaining Annual leave will be transferred to the next working year
- Premium health insurance package for you and your relatives
- Annual health check-up at premium clinic
- Interesting workout activities: gym/fitness, yoga, kick-boxing, football after work
- Annual bonus and project bonus
- Reward program for engaged activities and volunteering
- Annual company trip & quarter team bonding activities
- Happy hours and awesome parties
- Development opportunity: sponsorship for training courses
- With regular discussions, you will have a lot of opportunities to learn from experts in their fields
- International opportunity to expose and grow
- At least one abroad travels every year. We often send our elites to international conferences like GDC, WWDC, Google I/O... to update the latest technology
- Additional allowance & gifts for birthdays, giving-birth, weddings, illness, Mid-Autumn Festival, Lunar New Year, 1/1, 1/5, 1/6…
- Pantry booster with food & beverages, game station & entertainment: PS4,...
IV. FURTHER INFORMATION
- Working hour: from Monday to Friday (8:30 -18:00)
- Address: Olympus Building, 40A Lam Son, Tan Son Hoa Ward, Ho Chi Minh city (former address is Ward 2, Tan Binh District)
Skills Required
- At least 5 years of experience as a Game Artist
- Strong knowledge and passion for game development
- Technical foundation in visual design and user experience (UX)
- Strong art technical skills; experience with 3D and 2D animation
- Proficient in English, equivalent to TOEIC 700 or higher
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The Company
What We Do
Athena Studio is a multinational technology company focused on developing mobile gaming apps for a wide range of worldwide users. We’ve brought over 15 superb game titles to the global market on iOS and Android. Our hit Woody ™ Block Puzzle Battle has been globally featured on Google Play as it’s an outstanding multiplayer battling puzzler ever. Our mission to entertain and enrich people’s lives through enhanced 5-star products. We are a mix of talented people who are game producers, artists, data scientists, programmers, gamers, and dreamers. We offer lots of room for you to grow & you will be a part of a talented team working together to achieve amazing results.
