Art Manager
Meta

Job Info

The Avatars Art group brings together experts to pioneer the future of social virtual and augmented reality applications, and we are looking for an experienced leader in art management.

Art Manager Responsibilities:

• Lead, manage, mentor, and grow a multidisciplinary team of Artists and Art Leads
• Drive progress at people and project-facing levels by supporting team growth and prioritization, team nurturing, building new partnerships, and more.
• Become a trusted partner to product stakeholders and executive leadership by communicating and demonstrating the value of art, and by delivering insights that lead to demonstrable business value.
• Effectively influence key partner leaders to gain alignment in prioritization, resourcing, and budgeting.
• Engage with PMs, Designers and Engineers & Art Leads to define the art pipelines and components, scope and goals for key features within our various projects
• Support the creative vision by communicating with executive leadership, and championing the team's needs to build a world-leading avatar system.
• Provide thought-leadership in establishing, implementing, and improving direction, goals, and processes for executing both near and long-term vision.
• Make staffing decisions based on business priorities, both short-term and long-term, as well as team strengths and motivation.
• Build a diverse and an inclusive environment across the team, modeling inclusive behaviors

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience directly managing full-time artists, along with 7+ years developing and shipping character-based products in a game development, real-time rendering, or related technical environment.
• Demonstrated experience to manage the development, maintenance and documentation of art pipelines and vendor based asset creation
• Experience driving changes in operational processes and aligning teams to a shared vision by solving conflicts and misalignments.
• Demonstrated experience to recruit, nurture, and grow talent
• Experience with roadmapping, budget management, and financial/performance tracking
• Interest in supporting ICs and other managers to produce a collaborative environment, where individuals bring in their best to produce results.
• Proven communication, presentation and diplomatic skills

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