Senior Art Director - iGaming - AUSTRALIA Location: AustraliaSalary: Attractive & competitive package Ref: 37169 Outstanding opportunity to join this award-winning team of Slots game creators who are looking to grow so that we can release even more transformative experiences to the millions of players that enjoy our games every day. Experienced industry veterans will understand that producing blockbuster titles is no easy feat, requiring an obsessive eye for every detail including the game design, mathematics, and artwork.That's where you would come in: we're looking for a superstar art and design leader who can work with our team to take game concepts, breathe life into them, and help turn them into hits.If you're able to expertly communicate your vision, deliver incredible art yourself, inspire top design personnel, and work tireless to build games in service of entertaining our players, you'll fit right in.Reporting to the VP of Game Production and working closely with everyone involved in building a game, this is a hands-on role that can be on the ground with the team or based remotely.Core ResponsibilitiesWork closely with the game production team to help define, conceptualise and iterate new game visions. This will include participating in design reviews, team meetings, and brainstorming sessions.Lead new game creative from start to finish, particularly heavy on the conceptual development at the beginning.Present concepts clearly, concisely, and effectively to the team and to stakeholders.Execute upon concepts and established visions for games, creating art assets yourself and coordinating with teams, agencies, and designers to deliver assets for development.Prepare tidy, thoughtful, and well-structured source files for development and supervise their implementation to ensure they are delivered according to the original vision.Provide quality control over design outputs and production.Where possible, take new design solutions and bring them to life by creating prototypes.Oversee deliverables, timelines and budgets.Be the point of contact for liaising with external suppliers.Assist the teams with questions about the designs and guide the specifications.Adjust designs based on feedback from stakeholders or from broader technical challenges.Document new controls and designs so that other team members clearly understand the design decisions.Update design systems and common controls where necessary to ensure that iterations are fully documented and usable by the rest of the team.Strategic ResponsibilitiesDefine and evolve our game design language to weave consistency and game familiarity throughout our titles.Discover how to incorporate elements of our branding into games.Consider how games fit into the broader design language of the business.Develop creative programs and design concepts that meet the business objectives and advance our brand strategy.Understand what our competitors are doing differently.Streamline our game design pipeline to reliably deliver high-quality assets.Evaluate technologies that can help augment our design pipelines.Keep an eye on broader design trends and tools.Provide thoughtful feedback on the overall roadmap and design strategy.Education, Qualifications, and BackgroundYou must have worked in an art direction capacity for designing real money gaming slots. The more projects you can demonstrate, the better. You must have led art projects that have shipped AAA products for one or more major land-based slot manufacturers.Key Experience AreasYou must have a clear understanding and respect for our players.You must be able to design and produce visual assets that illustrate your vision.You must be proficient with popular vector and bitmap design tools.You must be comfortable working with game designers and mathematicians.You must know how to hire, grow, and lead a team of exceptional design talent.You must be familiar with hierarchical game structures.You must be able to work with a wide variety of art styles.You must understand technical constraints and creatively work around them.You should ideally be comfortable with prototyping complex concepts.Having the ability to delve into graphic design, motion graphics, animation, or video is a plus.You should:Love slot games and have a passion for the product you're building.Take ownership of your creative deliveries.Be exceptionally well-organised and structured with your time.Be extremely creative and thrive in an ultra-creative environment.Adapt quickly to different teams and working styles.Be ready to adopt a mobile-first mentality.Be obsessed with details.Bring an infectious design mentality.Take critical feedback well.Discuss constructively and diplomatically.Be an expert communicator both visually and verbally.Exude transparency, openness, and objectivity.Thrive in a fast-paced environment and work to tight deadlines.Speak English natively or be completely fluent.