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Join the award-winning team that created God of War

Santa Monica Studio is seeking an Art Manager to partner with the Senior Art Manager and support the Art team!

In this role you will help to mentor, retain, and develop some of the top Art talent in the industry. Under the supervision of the Senior Manager, you’ll plan, organize, and structure a large part of the Art team, to ensure that project and studio needs are met. You’ll also play an important role in creating and maintaining a vibrant and innovative creative culture, and in helping guide the Art team on a path of continual growth and improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Cultivate and retain top tier artists, to help grow our existing industry-leading team
  • Participate in the hiring process for artists under the supervision of the Sr Manager along with Talent Acquisition
    • Conduct phone screens and join in-house interviews to help identify strong potential candidates
  • Provide career development and growth for artists
    • Personally provide mentoring and guidance on soft skills, and leverage sub-discipline experts within the team to build technical skills
  • Manage performance within the team in a way that encourages innovation and creativity, while establishing and codifying best practice and process
  • Establish responsibility and accountability within the team
    • Create, develop, and support new leaders
  • Plan for the best and most efficient deployment of art resources
    • Collaborate closely with Directors, Leads and Producers to ensure project needs are being met, along with the development needs of the team
  • Support and deliver the creative vision of the Directors
    • Ensure that the Art Direction and priorities set by project leadership are reflected in the scheduling, resource allocation, execution plan, and conduct of the art team as a whole
  • Collaborate with the Sr Manager of Art Department, the rest of the Management team, Production team, and other studio leaders to ensure a consistent, transparent and effective production process across all disciplines
  • Contribute to studio planning around personnel issues, headcount planning, studio culture and other needs as required
  • Represent the art function at the project level
    • Ensure that appropriate communication flows freely, such that the team feels heard, represented, and generally in the loop
    • Escalate and resolve art team needs, issues, and concerns in a responsive, effective, and visible manner
  • Act decisively to remove roadblocks and smooth out interdisciplinary issues
  • Maintain an inspiring and mindful creative culture, where experimentation, feedback and iteration are encouraged
    • Foster knowledge sharing and creative exercises
  • Represent the art team and the studio in the industry, including participation in events, conferences, and university outreach

Requirements

  • 7+ years of game industry experience
  • 7+ years of art experience
  • 3+ years of management experience
  • Internal development team experience

Preferred Experience

  • 2+ years of experience in an art leadership role
  • Experience throughout a full AAA development cycle preferred

 

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At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.

Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. 

In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.

 

The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.
$133,200—$199,800 USD

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