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About the Role

Lead the visual direction for ambitious new mobile games, defining artistic vision, growing high-performing teams, and partnering with cross-functional leaders to create games players will love. This role is central to shaping, developing, and launching new titles within King's New Games division, focusing on next-generation mobile games across new and existing IP.

Responsibilities

• Define, evolve, and execute a clear art vision for a mobile game, translating creative ambition into direction for teams and stakeholders.
• Lead and develop multidisciplinary art teams, coaching senior artists and leaders while supporting growth and performance.
• Partner closely with producers, game designers, developers, business performance, player insights, and marketing to align art direction with game strategy and player needs.
• Guide the creation of gameplay assets, characters, environments, animation, mood boards, style guides, and brand guidelines from concept to in-game implementation.
• Shape team ways of working and creative processes that support excellence at both game and studio level.
• Work across new IP, existing IP, and external partnerships, bringing a strong understanding of technical constraints and content implementation.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading art direction across shipped games, ideally through a full development cycle from concept to launch.
• Proven people leadership experience, including leading multi-function art teams and developing other leaders.
• Strong experience partnering with senior cross-functional stakeholders to align creative vision, production needs, and business goals.
• Excellent visual communication skills, with the ability to create, communicate, and drive a strong artistic vision.
• Deep knowledge of game art production across characters, environments, animation, style development, and in-game implementation.
• Strong strategic and operational leadership skills, with the ability to turn broad goals into clear plans, priorities, and creative standards.
• A strategic leader who can guide teams through complex creative decisions and influence senior stakeholders.
• A collaborative partner who builds strong relationships across disciplines and works effectively toward shared goals.
• A supportive coach and mentor who develops talent and helps teams do their best work.
• Understanding of AI tooling for prototyping and production.
• Interest in visual and interaction design.
• Skills in Maya or similar 3D software.
• Experience working with a range of development methodologies.
• Previous experience creating casual and/or mobile games.
• Include an online portfolio, case studies, or other examples of relevant work and leadership where possible.

Skills

• Visual communication
• Game art production (characters, environments, animation, style development, in-game implementation)
• Strategic leadership
• Operational leadership
• AI tooling
• Maya or similar 3D software

Location

• Stockholm
• Malmö
• London
• Barcelona
• Berlin
• Dublin
• San Francisco
• New York
• Los Angeles
• Malta

Work Type

• Mobile
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Experienced

About the Company

• King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with a mission of Making the World Playful.
• Over 20 years of history delivering iconic mobile games like Candy Crush franchise and Farm Heroes Saga.
• Games are played by over 200 million monthly active users.
• King is part of Microsoft.
• Kingsters are located in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta.
• We bring moments of magic to hundreds of millions of people every single day.
• We create unforgettable games that are loved around the world.
• We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other, and love for our players.
• King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the company.
• We are challenging ourselves to dream bigger in a Seriously Playful way.
• We’re experimenting, learning, and adapting continuously to shape the industry.
• We’re passionate about bringing moments of magic to our players and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way.
• We play as a team, helping each other have impact on a massive scale.
• We’ll know we’ve outdone ourselves when we’ve inspired the world to play.

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