<p>Scopely is looking for an <strong>Associate Art Director</strong> to join our art team. Working with the Senior Art Director and creative leadership, you’ll help shape the game’s visual identity and guide art from early development through delivery.</p> <p>This role focuses on creative direction, visual judgment, and alignment across disciplines. You’ll translate the artistic vision into clear briefs, references, reviews, and actionable feedback. You’ll also contribute hands-on in at least one art discipline, moving between high-level direction and detailed critique, paintovers, or blockouts.</p> <h2><strong>What You Will Do</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Partner with the Senior Art Director and creative leadership to define the game’s visual identity, principles, style guides, briefs, references, and quality standards.</li> <li>Align art disciplines and partner teams around shared goals, dependencies, handoffs, and decisions. Lead visual reviews, critiques, kickoffs, and alignment sessions with clear, constructive feedback.</li> <li>Guide the creation and refinement of characters, environments, props, lighting, animation, VFX, UI, and other visual components, maintaining cohesion and variety.</li> <li>Work with design, narrative, engineering, production, and external development partners to carry the artistic intent through development.</li> <li>Contribute hands-on through concept development, paintovers, blockouts, callout sheets, reference packages, prototypes, or other art tasks.</li> <li>Partner with production and discipline leads to understand milestones, surface risks, and keep creative priorities moving toward delivery.</li> <li>Support artists, external partners, and vendors with clear direction, feedback, and mentorship.</li> <li>Improve visual review and direction processes, represent the art team in cross-functional discussions, and communicate priorities to artists, partners, and senior stakeholders.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What We’re Looking For</strong></h2> <ul> <li>5+ years of professional experience creating art for games, animation, film, or a related visual medium, or equivalent experience, with a record of taking on increasing creative responsibility.</li> <li>Experience helping define, communicate, and execute an artistic vision from early development through delivery.</li> <li>Strong hands-on experience in at least one art discipline, with particular relevance to character art, environment art, or both.</li> <li>Ability to communicate visual direction, facilitate constructive reviews, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, external partners, and distributed contributors.</li> <li>Working knowledge of production planning, prioritization, and milestone constraints, with the judgment to balance creative priorities and delivery needs.</li> <li>Experience creating or contributing to art bibles, style guides, visual development packages, mood boards, paintovers, callout sheets, or similar direction-setting materials.</li> <li>Understanding of game art and real-time production pipelines, plus familiarity with relevant 2D and/or 3D content creation tools.</li> <li>A portfolio that demonstrates artistic judgment, visual problem-solving, hands-on craft, and the ability to guide work from concept to completion.</li> <li>Experience in mobile game development or art direction.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Bonus Points</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Familiarity with the Unity game engine.</li> <li>Experience supporting live service content development.</li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>For candidates in CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA, the annual salary range is provided below. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible for equity, bonuses, and a comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare benefits, retirement benefits, pet insurance, paid holidays, paid Scopely free days, and unlimited paid time off. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.</p></div><div class="title">CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA Annual Salary Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$146,200</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$215,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p> </p> <h3>About Scopely</h3> <p>Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.</p> <p>Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, incl