2D/3D Artist
Role Responsibilities
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.
- Translate broad problems into clear visual solutions.
- Work within established visual pillars while proposing enhancements to pipelines, style guides, and shared resources to improve quality and consistency across teams and locations.
- Communicate decisions and rationale clearly.
- Facilitate effective information sharing among teams.
- Contribute to player-centric features in a live game environment.
- Represent the art perspective in discussions, contributing to decisions and advocating for quality and player experience.
- Work autonomously, taking ownership of features from brief through to final delivery.
- Take unclear or high-level briefs and turn them into clear, actionable work by asking the right questions.
- Proactively identify challenges, anticipate problems, and help drive solutions.
- Plan work, manage scope, and provide reliable time estimates.
- Give and receive constructive feedback to contribute to a positive team culture.
- Support and mentor other artists to help raise the overall quality of the team.
- Take initiative beyond assigned tasks and contribute to improving team processes and ways of working.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Strong concept art skills, with a good eye for composition and color.
- Experience creating high-quality 2D vector characters and environments in a stylized game art style.
- Capability to produce simple 3D models and basic rendering to support production workflows.
- Good understanding of animation principles, with the ability to create simple rigs and animations.
- Strong cross-disciplinary communication skills.
- A portfolio demonstrating your skills is required.
About King
King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with more than 20 years of history of delivering iconic games including the Candy Crush franchise and Farm Heroes Saga. The company mission is "Making the World Playful." King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King is part of Microsoft and operates out of locations including Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta.
Company Culture and Values
- Mission: Making the World Playful.
- Approach: Taking 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.
- Philosophy: Challenging themselves to dream bigger in a "Seriously Playful" way.
- Execution: Experimenting, learning, and adapting continuously to shape the industry.
- Teamwork: Playing as a team, helping each other have an impact on a massive scale.