2D/3D Artist

Job Description

Do you want to work on one of the world’s biggest mobile games? We are looking for a dedicated Senior Game Artist to join the art team in Candy Crush Saga!

Your role within the Kingdom

As a Senior Game Artist, you’ll own major features end-to-end to deliver player-first experiences. You’ll be working in a cross-functional Candy feature team, partnering with designers, developers, technical artists, user researchers and producers to deliver polished, optimized art that elevates player experience.

You will take broad problems and translate them into clear visual solutions, working within established visual pillars while proposing enhancements to pipelines, style guides and shared resources that improve quality and consistency across teams and locations. You will communicate decisions and rationale clearly, facilitate effective information sharing among teams, and contribute to player-centric features in a live game environment.

Skills to Create Thrills

• You have strong concept art skills, with a good eye for composition and color
• Experience creating high-quality 2D vector characters and environments in a stylised game art style
• Capable of producing simple 3D models and basic rendering to support production workflows
• A good understanding of animation principles, with the ability to create simple rigs and animations
• A portfolio demonstrating your skills is required.

Key Attributes

• Strong cross-disciplinary communication skills, collaborating effectively with designers, developers, and stakeholders
• You represent the art perspective in discussions, contributing to decisions and advocating for quality and player experience
• Comfortable working autonomously, taking ownership of features from brief through to final delivery
• Ability to take an unclear or high-level brief and turn it into clear, actionable work by asking the right questions
• Proactively identifies challenges, anticipates problems, and helps drive solutions
• Strong organisational skills, including planning work, managing scope, and providing reliable time estimates
• Comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback, contributing to a positive team culture
• Supports and mentors other artists, helping to raise the overall quality of the team
• Takes initiative beyond assigned tasks and contributes to improving team processes and ways of working

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile titles such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta.

About Us

We bring moments of magic to hundreds of millions of people every single day. We create unforgettable games that are loved around the world. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other, and love for our players.

Who we are
King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games, including franchises such as Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch. We have 249 million monthly active users as of fourth quarter 2019 across web, social and mobile platforms. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq ATVI) in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the company.

Our passion
Making great games is incredibly challenging but we’ve proven it can be done… and we see a world of possibilities ahead. We’re challenging ourselves to dream bigger in a Seriously Playful way. We’re experimenting, learning, and adapting continuously to shape the industry in ways yet to be imagined. We’re passionate about bringing moments of magic to our players and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. Above all, we play as a team, helping each other have impact on a massive scale. And we’ll know we’ve outdone ourselves when we’ve inspired the world to play.

If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful! Together, we’ll create new experiences that raise the bar, delight billions of people, and redefine the world of games again and again.