Overview
Sawhorse Productions is a Los Angeles based, award winning full-service creative studio turning ideas into unforgettable experiences through captivating branded content, viral social moments, and groundbreaking interactive experiences. We partner with industry-leading brands, artists, and studios such as Walmart, Google, NBCUniversal, Fanatics, Toyota, Pepsi and Alo to deliver innovative multi-platform content.
Our projects include branded content, social and digital content, broadcast commercials, UGC gaming platform experiences, and interactive and Web3 activations including AR, VR, MR, and AI.
We are looking for an organized, art-literate, and hands-on Art Producer to run the production side of Sawhorse Productions' Roblox art department. This role sits between our Art Directors, Lead 3D Artists, and producers, turning creative briefs into realistic budgets, staffed teams, and schedules that hold across branded Roblox experiences.
This is an hourly freelance position with expected availability Monday through Friday during core working hours of 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM PST. Pay is $40 to $50 per hour depending on experience.
Responsibilities
Art Budgets and Estimates
- •Build art budgets and hour estimates for new projects and pitches using Sawhorse's deliverables and live ops templates
- •Hand estimates to producers for client proposals
- •Track actuals in Harvest against budget to flag overages early
Timelines and Milestones
- •Create and maintain art schedules, milestones, and review checkpoints for each project
- •Align schedules with the dev team and each client's launch and live ops dates
Team Resourcing
- •Check artist availability and match the right 3D artists, modelers, and environment artists to each project
- •Staff up quickly when new work lands
Asset Tracking
- •Own asset lists and production trackers in ClickUp
- •Keep status, assignees, and due dates current from concept and blockout through in-engine delivery in Roblox Studio
Art Team Partnership
- •Partner with Art Directors and Lead 3D Artists to break creative briefs into scoped asset lists, priorities, and task assignments
Freelance Artist Bench
- •Manage Sawhorse's bench of vetted freelance artists including the commissions channel on Discord
- •Ensure extra capacity is ready before a project needs it
Asset and Software Purchasing
- •Manage art department purchases including marketplace assets, plugins, software subscriptions, and renewals
- •Keep spend tied to project budgets
Artist Onboarding
- •Get new artists production ready with onboarding covering Harvest, invoicing, pay periods, Slack, and Discord
Hands-On Art Support
- •Step in on modeling, texturing, or asset optimization in Blender, Maya, and Roblox Studio when the schedule demands it or bandwidth allows
Process and Innovation
- •Stay ahead of Roblox platform updates, art tooling, and AI-assisted time and budget tracking
- •Bring ideas that make the art pipeline faster and estimates more accurate
Qualifications
- •5+ years of experience in game art, art direction, or art production
- •3+ years of hands-on Roblox work as an Art Director, Lead Artist, or 3D Modeler
- •Portfolio or shipped credits showing Roblox art created or directed
- •Strong working knowledge of Roblox Studio, MeshParts, SurfaceAppearance, and platform performance limits
- •Working proficiency in Blender or Maya and Substance 3D Painter
- •2+ years of experience building art budgets, hour estimates, or bids for client or studio projects and tracking spend against them
- •Proven experience running art schedules and asset trackers in ClickUp, Jira, Asana, or a similar production tool
- •Experience staffing projects with internal and freelance artists and balancing workload across multiple concurrent projects
- •Clear, direct communicator able to align Art Directors, artists, and producers across time zones over Slack and video calls
- •Highly organized and detail-focused, trusted to handle purchase cards, client assets, and IP-sensitive material responsibly
Nice To Haves
- •Experience with Harvest or similar time-tracking and invoicing tools
- •Live ops experience on a Roblox experience with regular content updates
- •Familiarity with Fortnite UEFN or other UGC platforms beyond Roblox
- •Experience with Roblox UGC avatar items and the Creator Marketplace
- •Background in branded entertainment, agency, or commercial production work
- •Experience using AI tools for production tracking or estimation
