Overview

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 ensure assets reach the highest standard and fully support the game's artistic vision, acting as the gatekeeper of the game's quality bar across all assets.

You will work closely with and learn from the game's leadership to establish and maintain a coherent, consistent vision across the game, providing direct leadership and actionable visual guidance to the art team while working with lead artists to keep modern, efficient development pipelines delivering assets on time and to standard.

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.

What You'll Be Doing

• •Collaborate with the Art Director and Executive Producer to establish an artistic vision that supports the game design, product direction and marketing strategy.
• •Own the quality bar for all assets across internal and external artists, so everything that ships holds to the same standard and supports the game's vision.
• •Contribute heavily to style guide creation and documentation, communicating the vision clearly to the art team and the wider development team.
• •Set up and run feedback sessions for internal and external artists, giving clear, actionable feedback that lifts the quality of what gets delivered.
• •Define and drive industry best practice and pipelines across all areas of game art content creation, including outsourcing, for smooth and consistent delivery to the agreed standard.
• •Work with production to effectively plan and schedule art team delivery across all game assets.

What We're Looking For

• •A portfolio demonstrating art direction capability, including style or production guides, paint-overs and similar.
• •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 externally as required.
• •Competent with strategies for growing, developing and managing multidisciplinary art and animation teams on a live product.
• •Comfortable documenting and presenting current industry best practice to art and animation teams, 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, alongside working knowledge of modern game development workflows across all major artistic disciplines.
• •A solid understanding of art fundamentals: anatomy, composition, lighting and value, form and function, and perspective.

What We Offer

• •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 plus Bank holidays and the option to buy or sell holidays.

About Jagex

We are Jagex: The RuneScape Company. Home to one of gaming's most enduring success stories. We create deep, community-powered games with worlds that evolve, inspire, and endure. Our flagship MMORPG franchise, RuneScape, has welcomed over 300 million player accounts, inspiring generations of players across PC and mobile for 25 years.

Headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, we are home to passionate creators, storytellers, engineers, and dreamers, all united by a single mission to shape the future of online worlds and empower players to make them their own.

Note: This role is only open to applicants who have the permanent right to work in the UK. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.