Art Manager
Role Overview
Scopely is looking for an experienced Art Manager to lead and support a team of artists. This role is primarily focused on people management, team development, performance, staffing, and creating a healthy and effective working environment for artists. The Art Manager will help artists grow their skills and careers, establish clear expectations, manage team capacity, and ensure the team is organized to support the broader creative goals of the studio. While the role will collaborate with production and development partners, its primary responsibility is the success, wellbeing, and development of the art team.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and support a team of artists across one or more disciplines.
- Establish clear expectations, goals, and standards for individual and team performance.
- Provide regular feedback, coaching, performance reviews, and career guidance.
- Monitor team health, morale, workload, and engagement.
- Identify risks related to burnout, capacity, motivation, or team dynamics and address them proactively.
- Support hiring, interviewing, onboarding, role definition, and organizational planning.
- Manage team structure, staffing needs, succession planning, and resource allocation.
- Help ensure artists are assigned to work that matches their skills, experience, and development goals.
- Facilitate communication across the art team and ensure important information is shared clearly.
- Represent the needs, concerns, and achievements of the art team to leadership.
- Partnering with Art Directors and craft leads to support quality, standards, and professional growth.
- Encourage the adoption of improved tools, workflows, and AI-enabled processes that benefit artists and the broader organization.
- Maintain clear documentation related to team structures, responsibilities, development plans, and management processes.
Qualifications
- Significant experience working in game development.
- Proven experience managing, mentoring, or leading artists.
- Strong understanding of people management, performance management, and career development.
- Excellent communication, listening, conflict-resolution, and organizational skills.
- Ability to provide clear, constructive, and actionable feedback.
- Experience supporting teams through organizational change and evolving priorities.
- Strong judgment, empathy, discretion, and professionalism.
- Ability to balance individual needs with broader team and organizational priorities.
- Experience working with multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing artists in a mobile, casual, or live-service game environment.
- Background in 2D, 3D, animation, VFX, UI, and/or technical art.
- Experience with hiring and workforce planning.
- Familiarity with modern digital art tools, production workflows, and AI-assisted creative processes.
Success Metrics
Success in this role means building a healthy, motivated, and high-performing art team. The Art Manager enables artists to do their best work, supports their professional growth, creates clarity and stability, addresses team challenges early, and ensures the art organization has the right people, structure, and support to succeed.
Company Information
Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including Monopoly GO!, Pokémon GO, Stumble Guys, Star Trek Fleet Command, MARVEL Strike Force, WWE Champions, the Scrabble franchise, and Yahtzee With Buddies. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified portfolios in the games industry. Founded in 2011, the company is powered by its proprietary technology platform, Playgami, and has global operations across four continents.