Associate Art Director (Mobile Games)

Location: US - United States; other location: Culver City. Salary eligibility and range specified for candidates in CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA.

Annual salary: $146,200–$215,000 USD for candidates in CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA.

Company

hirify.global is a video game and global interactive entertainment company creating, developing, publishing, and live-operating games across mobile, web, PC, and console.

What you will do

• Partner with the Senior Art Director and creative leadership to define the game's visual identity, principles, style guides, briefs, references, and quality standards.
• Align art disciplines and partner teams around goals, dependencies, handoffs, and decisions; lead visual reviews, critiques, kickoffs, and alignment sessions.
• Guide the creation and refinement of characters, environments, props, lighting, animation, VFX, UI, and other visual components.
• Work with design, narrative, engineering, production, external development partners, artists, vendors, and senior stakeholders to carry artistic intent through development.
• Contribute hands-on through concept development, paintovers, blockouts, callout sheets, reference packages, prototypes, and other art tasks.
• Partner with production and discipline leads to understand milestones, surface risks, improve visual direction processes, and keep creative priorities moving toward delivery.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience creating art for games, animation, film, or a related visual medium, or equivalent experience, with increasing creative responsibility.
• Experience helping define, communicate, and execute an artistic vision from early development through delivery.
• Strong hands-on experience in at least one art discipline, particularly character art, environment art, or both.
• Ability to communicate visual direction, facilitate constructive reviews, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, external partners, and distributed contributors.
• Working knowledge of production planning, prioritization, and milestone constraints, with judgment to balance creative priorities and delivery needs.
• Experience creating or contributing to art bibles, style guides, visual development packages, mood boards, paintovers, callout sheets, or similar direction-setting materials.
• Understanding of game art and real-time production pipelines, plus familiarity with relevant 2D and/or 3D content creation tools.
• A portfolio demonstrating artistic judgment, visual problem-solving, hands-on craft, and the ability to guide work from concept to completion.
• Experience in mobile game development or art direction.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with the Unity game engine.
• Experience supporting live service content development.

Culture & Benefits

• Healthcare benefits, retirement benefits, pet insurance, and paid holidays.
• Paid hirify.global free days and unlimited paid time off.
• Employees may be eligible for equity and bonuses in addition to base pay.
• Work within a global organization with gamemakers and partners across more than a dozen countries.