Art Lead (Game Art)

Location: Remote within the United States or Canada, working across North American time zones (EST–PST); legal authorization to work in the United States or Canada is required, and work visa sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $165.6k–$206.4k per year

Company

hirify.global is a fully distributed game studio developing a multiplayer fantasy adventure focused on connection, collective exploration, and emergent stories.

What you will do

• Lead the art organization across Environment, Concept, Character, VFX, Animation, and related disciplines.
• Manage, mentor, and develop discipline leads and individual contributors while building clear ownership and feedback practices.
• Stay engaged with work in progress to identify quality, readability, consistency, and player-experience issues.
• Partner with Art Direction, Design, Engineering, Production, and studio leadership to align creative goals, scope, and delivery.
• Improve art pipelines, workflows, and tools, and resolve cross-disciplinary production blockers.
• Oversee external art partners and ensure outsourced work meets creative, technical, and quality standards.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience in game-development art production, with multiple shipped titles.
• Significant experience managing, mentoring, and developing artists and art leads.
• Strong understanding of workflows and dependencies across multiple game-art disciplines.
• Strong product judgment, cross-functional communication, and decision-making skills.
• Experience working with external outsourcing vendors and operating both strategically and tactically.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States or Canada and availability during EST–PST time zones; visa sponsorship is not available.

Nice to have

• Experience leading a multidisciplinary art organization.
• Understanding of Environment, Character, Concept, VFX, Animation, Technical Art, and related pipelines.
• Experience with stylized art and multiplayer games.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully distributed remote studio across North American time zones.
• Culture focused on curiosity, thoughtful communication, adaptability, constructive feedback, and continuous learning.
• Competitive salary with transparent pay and stock options.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus life insurance and disability benefits.
• 401(k) contributions in the U.S. or RRSP and DPSP contributions in Canada.
• Paid parental leave and reasonable workplace accommodations.

Hiring process

• People Operations introduction, followed by a hiring manager interview.
• Panel interview consisting of three one-hour sections.
• Gardens debrief followed by an offer.