King is looking for a Senior Visual Development Artist to join our New Games division. We are looking for someone with an ability to champion visual development, collaborating with Creative Directors, Art Directors and Artists in developing exciting, outstanding, and memorable visuals for our games and IP.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver concept art that helps setting up visual benchmarks and supporting teams in realizing our concepts in production content of our new games.

• Work closely with Art & Creative Directors to understand the creative vision, working with them to craft a visual style that supports the product’s pillars and ambition.

• Work with the Senior Director of Visual Development and key collaborators to find opportunities to improve pipelines and art workflows, supporting the consistent delivery of art that aligns with the needs of the Game Design, player’s experience, marketing, and IP Development.

• Support the ongoing development of Art Style Guides and relevant documentation that will align teams, support the onboarding of new team members, and prepare teams for any potential external development.

Skills to Create Thrills

 You will bring a versatility and a true passion as a visual problem solver to craft visuals within the technical parameters and creative vision of our games.

You have strong communication skills and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work autonomously when needed.

• Experience in the field of Visual Development and environment design.

• Ability to build artwork in a wide range of styles and tones.

• Foundational understanding of drawing, perspective, painting, colour, and design principles.

• Ability to creatively lead small teams through the visual development and design process.

• Interest and skills for visual storytelling and world building.

• Curiosity about mentoring and training artists in the craft of visual development/concept art.

Bonus Skills

• Experience or basic understanding of 3d Software packages

• Abilities in the discipline of colour, digital painting and lighting design.

• Ability or basic understanding of disciplines outside of environment design, like  character and hard surface design

What makes King a great place to work is all our people. We’re powered by a determination to be better tomorrow than we are today - and to have some fun along the way. So we offer sweet benefits and perks to match.

• Competitive pay

We always check the market to make sure our pay is competitive. And we have profit sharing to reward our people for having an impact at King.

• Coverage for the important life stuff

We make sure you can plan for the future. We’ve got you covered with medical insurance, financial saving plans, and other local offerings depending on where you live.

• Time off

We have a generous holiday allowance, most of our offices close between 25 December and the New Year, and you can take a day to volunteer and give back to your community.

• Learning opportunities are everywhere

Learn@King has hundreds of courses, books, and resources you can access anytime. Want to advance your C++, or Java skills? How about a live drawing workshop? We’ve got those too. We also do special assignments for on the job learning and we’re part of Activision Blizzard so career options are everywhere.

• Next level workspaces

We have open spaces, desks on wheels, jam boards, cosy nooks for when you need to get in the zone, and rooms for teams to map it all out. Since our job is making the world playful we also have ping pong tables, cosy couches, and gaming zones. Yep, coffee, healthy snacks, drinks, and breakfast too.

• Wellbeing

Wellbeing is important to us. Doing your best work requires being your best self. Our offices either have a gym on site or offer a gym & wellbeing allowance.

• Employee networks to connect with people

Our employee networks bring people together. You can get involved in the planning or just enjoy perks! Whether its theatre trips, fitness classes, conversations on inclusion, or Pride, passionate employees make it all happen.

• Kingfomarket

We don’t want to brag but Kingfomarket is kind of a big deal. Every year the entire company gets together to learn, share ideas, focus on the future, and celebrate our wins. Our events in general are epic but Kingfomarket is one of a kind.

• Carbon offsetting

We want a playful and sustainable world so we participate in CO2 offsetting each year to make us carbon neutral across our office footprint, business travel, and game’s servers energy consumption.

• King Swag

Use your Royal Store tokens to get some sweet headphones or a King trolley (that’s a suitcase for our US peeps). You’ll get new tokens every year so don’t forget to pick out a gift for your friends who are candy crushing over the fact that you work for King.