Art Director, Mobile A.I. Games

Role Overview

We're seeking an experienced Art Director to lead the visual direction across our growing portfolio of AI-powered mobile games and interactive experiences. You'll define and evolve our aesthetic north star, establish visual standards across products, and guide internal and external artists to execute on a cohesive vision that feels distinctive, polished, and adaptable. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can balance strong traditional art direction with emerging generative AI workflows and thrive in a fast-moving startup environment.

What You'll Be Doing

• Define and evolve the overall visual identity across our games and interactive experiences, ensuring aesthetic consistency across gameplay, UI/UX, characters, environments, and supporting content.
• Collaborate closely with Creative, Design, Product, and Engineering leads to align visual direction with narrative, gameplay, and product goals.
• Lead concept development for characters, environments, interfaces, visual systems, and marketing assets.
• Develop and maintain style guides, art standards, and visual references for internal teams and external partners.
• Define and manage production pipelines for image, video, and other creative assets, including workflows incorporating generative AI.
• Manage and mentor artists, providing actionable feedback and ensuring work consistently meets quality and style expectations.
• Oversee outsourcing and contractor relationships, ensuring assets are delivered on time and aligned with the creative vision.
• Ensure visual design supports storytelling, gameplay clarity, player emotion, and an intuitive mobile experience.
• Partner with marketing and brand teams to maintain visual cohesion across player touchpoints.
• Stay current on visual trends, emerging AI tools, mobile game design, UI/UX, and interactive storytelling, continuously evolving our visual language and production capabilities.
• Experiment with new tools and workflows that enable the team to produce high-quality creative work faster and more effectively.

What We're Looking For

• 4–5+ years of experience in game development, including at least 3–4 years in an art direction or comparable creative leadership role.
• Hands-on experience with generative AI tools and creative production pipelines is required; experience using AI-powered coding and prototyping platforms such as Claude Code, v0, Lovable, or similar tools is a major plus.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating art direction across stylized, narrative-driven, mobile, or interactive game experiences.
• Deep understanding of how visual design supports storytelling, gameplay, player emotion, and engagement.
• Experience collaborating across disciplines including game design, narrative, product, engineering, and marketing.
• Strong visual storytelling instincts, with a sophisticated understanding of composition, color, lighting, visual hierarchy, and pacing.
• Experience establishing the visual tone and style of UI/UX across mobile and other screen-based experiences.
• Experience creating scalable art pipelines, style guides, and systems that enable multiple artists or external partners to execute consistently.
• Comfortable being both strategic and hands-on, moving between defining the creative vision and helping solve practical production challenges.
• Excited by experimentation and the opportunity to rethink traditional game-art workflows using generative AI.
• Comfortable working in a startup environment that is fast-paced, highly collaborative, and constantly evolving.

Benefits

• Pay: $35/hour depending on experience, 40 hours/week; contract to hire.
• Remote-First: Work from anywhere with a flexible, asynchronous schedule.
• Creative Ownership: Play a major role in shaping the visual identity of a growing portfolio of games and interactive experiences.
• Innovative Tech: Work at the intersection of gaming, interactive storytelling, and generative AI.
• Startup Adventure: Join a nimble, creative team building new kinds of mobile gaming experiences.