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Art Director

4 × 8hr days80% payHybrid · Montreal, Canada

We're looking for an Art Director who is ready to set the visual direction and build a new universe. This is primarily a creative and conceptual role, where you'll spend most of your time visually exploring ideas to guide the development team.

If you've been waiting for the opportunity to visualize a new IP from the ground up this your chance.

In this role you will: Define the overall art direction and visual identity for a new, unannounced IP, in collaboration with our creative and design leads. Build out an art bible focused on story telling, characters, environments, factions, mood, and high-level visual language. Concept and iterate on character, vehicles and weapons, pushing design and silhouette to create a signature look the project can be known for. Quickly produce visual guidance for artists through sketches, paint overs and concept art. Help shape the worldbuilding as the foundation for visual choices. Collaborate with stakeholders, balancing their high-level pillars with your own creative authorship.

What we are looking for : Proven experience as an Art Director, Lead Concept Artist, or Senior Concept Artist, with strong character and environment fundamentals. A portfolio showing strong design work in the sci-fi or futuristic genres. Experience in world building or visualizing new IP from scratch. Experience in industrial design or designing exosuits, robots, vehicles and weapons is a plus. Working knowledge of Unreal Engine 5 and how art direction translates into a real-time pipeline is a strong plus. Experience in collaborating closely with stakeholders, ensuring alignment on goals, timelines, and deliverables while fostering strong, transparent relationships.

In this role you will: Define the overall art direction and visual identity for a new, unannounced IP, in collaboration with our creative and design leads; Design an "art bible" focused on storytelling, characters, environments, factions, mood, and overall visual language; Create and iterate on character, vehicle and weapon concepts, pushing design and silhouettes to develop a strong visual signature; Quickly produce visual guidance for artists through sketches, paint-overs and concept art; Contribute to worldbuilding, which will serve as the foundation for visual choices; Collaborate with stakeholders by reconciling their strategic pillars with your creative vision.

What we are looking for: Proven experience as an Art Director, Lead Concept Artist or Senior Concept Artist, with solid fundamentals in character and environment design; Portfolio demonstrating a strong sense of design in sci-fi or futuristic universes; Experience in worldbuilding or creating a new IP from scratch; Experience in industrial design or designing exoskeletons, robots, vehicles and weapons is an asset; Good knowledge of Unreal Engine 5 and the integration of art direction into a real-time pipeline is a significant advantage; Experience collaborating closely with stakeholders, ensuring alignment on objectives, timelines and deliverables, while fostering strong and transparent relationships.

We are looking for an Art Director ready to define the visual direction and build a new universe. This is primarily a creative and conceptual role, where you will spend the majority of your time visually exploring ideas to guide the development team. If you have been waiting for the opportunity to bring a new intellectual property (IP) to life from its inception, this is your chance.