Art Outsource Manager
Hutch, United Kingdom

We’re Hutch Games, a mobile games developer amp; publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

Requirements

Vehicle Art Outsource Manager

Hutch is looking for a Vehicle Art Outsource Manager on a 12 month contract, to join our growing team and play a key role in delivering visually impressive free to play gaming experiences for our own IP as well as top licences such as F1 Clash.

The focus of this role will utilise your strong skills as a vehicle artist to help shape the cars for our next big title. You will work with internal game teams and manage relationships with our outsource partners. We’re keen to find an Artist at heart who is happy to work hands-on creating and improving new art assets or turn their hand to creating detailed briefs and spreadsheets, as required.

This is a great opportunity to help us drive to improve how we approach Outsourcing, we’re building out new processes, tools and the team and you can help us on that journey. All whilst making some awesome looking cars.

Responsibilities

• Work on an exciting new game project, building and maintaining close relationships with the game development team, creating briefs and gaining relevant feedback
• Build, maintain and manage relationships with our outsource providers. Handling asset briefing, reviewing art quality and processes
• Coordinate feedback between the Hutch development teams and Outsource providers, working closely with the team lead.
• Provide feedback to help maintain and improve internal pipeline processes to maximise efficiency. Including creating documentation and estimates
• Act in a hands-on capacity, giving Art Direction and using your Artistic skills to improve assets when relevant, such as catching mesh irregularities and rectifying
• Create benchmark vehicle assets
• Assist in tracking asset creation on multiple projects. You will flag issues, keep internal teams updated on a regular basis using multiple tools such as; Shotgrid and Jira.

Requirements

• A background as a Hard Surface Artist within the Games Industry, specialising in realistic cars.
• An ability to give Artistic Direction to Outsource teams, having good artistic sensibilities to understand areas such as; proportions, geometry and composition
• When relevant, be willing to work hands on to improve or create game assets
• Experience working as an Art Outsource Manager, with a familiarity of pipelines and processes
• A good understanding of game art pipelines and how to build, maintain and improve them
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly with remote teams and a variety of stakeholders
• A working knowledge of Maya and Unity

Bonus Points

• Experience with designing and modelling vehicle components
• Experience within the mobile games space
• Prior experience of mentoring other members in a team
• Shotgrid experience

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, central London with other offices in Dundee and Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values.

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