Overview

The Coalition is a flagship first-party studio within Xbox Game Studios and the home to one of gaming’s most critically and commercially acclaimed series, Gears of War. We are a group of diverse and talented individuals working for a common purpose to push the limits of Microsoft's entertainment platform and devices. As a studio, we lead from our values and work together to promote respect and inclusion, a growth mindset and grit, all while putting our team first. If you have the fire to work with our driven team, then come work with us.

We are seeking a highly creative and motivated Senior Character Artist Outsource Manager. In this position, you will be expected to help deliver high quality character assets for the Gears of War franchise through our external partners. You will work closely with the Character Lead to help reinforce our quality bar and bring the Lead’s vision to reality.

Responsibilities

• Act as a bridge between the internal character team and our external partners.

• Partner with the Art Director and Lead Character Artist to understand, train, and reinforce character creation best practices, processes and art direction goals.

• Assist where required in due diligence and onboarding of new external partners, as well as offboarding partners from our projects.

• Actively work with the Production team to help remove roadblocks with external partners.

• Promptly review work submitted by external partners, ensuring that it hits the quality standards set by our Art and Technical Directors and Leads.

• Ensure that tasks assigned to our external partners in project management tools are up-to-date and are populated with the required information (e.g. overages, submission notes)

• Work with the external partners to ensure that the work assigned to them is completed on time, on budget, and to the expected quality bar.

• Maintain regular communication and healthy relationships with external partners. This may include being available outside of normal working hours to cover different time zones.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or Certificate in Design, Fine Arts, Human Computer Interaction, Visual Communications or related art field AND 2+ years experience in art design or a related art field working on computer games or entertainment
• • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years’ of experience in video games, film/television or equivalent.
• 2+ years’ experience working with external teams.
• Good visual and technical understanding of video games character creation steps and requirements.
• Proficient in Maya, ZBrush and Adobe Substance Painter.
• Experience with Unreal Engines a big plus.
• Experience with skeleton/rig creation a plus.
• Familiarity with managing projects using project management tools (I.e. Jira, Confluence, Excel, etc.)
• Works well with deadlines, is self-motivated and directed.

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Art IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $85,000 - CAD $166,800 per year.

Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Art IC4 - L'échelle salariale de base typique pour ce rôle dans l'ensemble du Canada est de 85,000 $ CAD à 166,800 $ CAD par année.

Pour plus d'information au sujet de la rémunération, veuillez cliquer ici:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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