Art Lead

RL is currently seeking an Art Leader to help build and scale Avatar Products and Experiences across all the platforms. As an Art Lead, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with a team of art directors, artists, designers, and engineers to design innovative features and systems. Your responsibilities will include generating concepts and high-fidelity mockups to bring creative visions to life, developing design systems and style guides to ensure consistency and quality, and collaborating closely with cross-functional partners to ship new products to users.

Art Lead Responsibilities

• Design features and systems in collaboration with art directors, artists, designers, and engineers
• Create high-fidelity mockups, prototypes, design systems, and style guides
• Help build rapid prototypes to test and validate design concepts
• Execute the creative vision for various Avatar products
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to ship new products to users
• Conceptualize ideas and design layouts via storyboards, sketches, and animatics using two-dimensional/three-dimensional applications
• Craft clear, appealing, and emotive concepts representing a global audience
• Provide artistic direction and vision for high-quality promotional content
• Forge partnerships with external vendors to scale up production

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years industry experience in games or other three-dimensional media
• Proficient in industry-standard art tools such as Photoshop, Maya, Blender, Modo, Figma, or similar
• Experience and hands-on working knowledge of character-based art processes and two-dimensional/three-dimensional production pipelines
• Experience leading and pitching projects and collaborating with leadership teams
• Motion Graphic experience creating visual effects to static or animated characters
• Demonstrated experience in time management skills, creating quality content on schedule in a deadline-focused environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience in rendering characters via DCC
• Industry leader in their area of specialization
• Previous experience designing and producing content for social mobile games
• VR and Mobile development experience

For those who live in or expect to work from California if hired for this position, please click here for additional information.

About Meta

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today-beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

$126,000/year to $175,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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