About the role
Location
Cambridge, UK – This position offers flexible working options, including predominantly remote work. Applicants are ideally based (or willing to relocate) within a comfortable commuting distance of the office to attend onsite as required.
Description
As Associate Art Director on RuneScape: DragonWilds, an open world survival crafting game built in Unreal Engine 5, you will assist in setting art direction and be accountable for the quality of the art team’s internal and external assets. You will be the gatekeeper of the game’s quality bar across all assets, ensuring they reach the highest standard and fully support the game’s artistic vision. You will work closely with game leadership to establish and maintain a coherent, consistent vision, providing direct leadership and visual guidance to the art team while maintaining efficient development pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the Art Director and Executive Producer to establish an artistic vision that supports game design, product direction, and marketing strategy.
- Own the quality bar for all assets across internal and external artists, ensuring all shipped content meets the established standard.
- Contribute heavily to style guide creation and documentation to communicate the vision clearly to the development team.
- Run feedback sessions for internal and external artists, providing clear, actionable feedback to elevate delivery quality.
- Define and drive industry best practice and pipelines across all areas of game art content creation, including outsourcing.
- Work with production to effectively plan and schedule art team delivery across all game assets.
Qualifications
- A portfolio demonstrating art direction capability, including style or production guides, paint-overs, and similar assets.
- Extensive end-to-end game development experience, from concept and production through to live game on PC or console.
- Proven ability to communicate and propagate an artistic vision to teams, stakeholders, and external partners.
- Competent with strategies for growing, developing, and managing multidisciplinary art and animation teams on a live product.
- Comfortable documenting and presenting industry best practice, and critiquing problematic assets and workflows.
- Practical, hands-on mentoring capability in at least two of the following: environment art, character art, concept art, technical art, UI, VFX, or animation.
- Working knowledge of modern game development workflows across all major artistic disciplines.
- Solid understanding of art fundamentals: anatomy, composition, lighting, value, form, function, and perspective.
Requirements
- Right to Work: This role is only open to applicants who have the permanent right to work in the UK. Jagex is unable to provide or take over visa sponsorship for this position.
Perks & Benefits
- Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan.
- Discretionary annual performance bonus.
- Minimum 6% Pension contributions.
- Life Insurance.
- Enhanced family leave policies from day 1.
- Flexible working hours.
- 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays.
- Option to buy/sell holidays.
Company Information
Jagex is the developer of the RuneScape franchise, creating deep, community-powered games. The company is currently expanding RuneScape into a broader ecosystem of games, including the launch of RuneScape: DragonWilds into Steam Early Access in 2025.
Values
- Embrace Fellowship: Collaborating and sharing openly.
- Hone our Craft: Always learning and improving.
- Honour our Vows: Being honest and transparent.
- Customers’ Heroes: Striving to understand team and player needs.
- Seize The Day: Making the most of every opportunity.