Art Director

We’re looking for an Art Director to join our award winning team conveniently located in Mid Valley City, Kuala Lumpur.

As an Art Director at Double Eleven, you’ll be responsible to create and hold the vision of a project to conduct a talented team of artists to deliver immersive content at the highest quality, whilst leading and motivating the team. You’ll work directly with members of the Project Leadership Team  and clients to deliver the vision to completion and schedule. 

Principally on Rust Console Edition with proven experience leading the delivery, interaction and maintenance of art direction for a live service game. The role is about enabling consistent, high-quality art output at scale - aligning creative direction with production realities, data and insights and coordinating across disciplines to ensure the art pipeline can support high quality content delivery.  You will work under a strict monthly release schedule for skins, in-game content and DLC, making sure quality and in-game performance are at the forefront of everything we put out. 

As a global gaming company, we've enabled millions to conquer Minecraft Dungeons, battle in Rust Console Edition and create new adventures in Fallout 76. 

Recently, we collaborated with Rockstar Games to bring Red Dead Redemption to the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 as well as partnered with Obsidian Entertainment on Grounded: Fully Yoked Edition for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 and 5. 

Double Eleven is a place where our people come first. Our 400-person team proudly represents over 30 nationalities.

We strive to avoid crunch, we offer flexible working hours to allow you to truly enjoy work/life balance whilst making great games and any overtime is always planned, optional and paid. 

Interested? We kindly ask all applicants to submit a portfolio to support their application. We’re afraid applications without an accompanying portfolio will not be considered and on this occasion, we’re unable to sponsor a visa for this role.

What you’ll be doing

1. Art Delivery & Execution
• Lead the end-to-end vision and execution of art direction, ensuring that all visual content meets defined quality, performance and scheduling requirements.
• Deliver the necessary artistic quality around a changing schedule, working with producers, designers and engineering  to hit all sprints
• Review and sign off on deliverables across all art disciplines (concept, environment, character, UI, VFX, animation), providing actionable feedback and guidance
• Ensure the art direction is clearly documented through resources like the Art Bible and style guides, enabling consistent and repeatable execution
• Stay ahead of industry trends, bring fresh ideas and techniques to elevate the visual identity.
2. Live Service Content Pipeline
• Build and maintain the processes, workflows and pipelines that allow the art team to support regular content updates - bi-monthly, seasonal, new features, live events and ongoing enhancements
• Work with production to forecast, estimate and plan art tasks across sprints and releases balancing creative goals with operational constraints
• Identify and mitigate art-related risks to delivery, including resource bottlenecks, technical limitations or changing priorities
3. Team Leadership & Partner Management
• Take full accountability for the performance and wellbeing of the individual artists on your project and the overall successful cohesiveness of the team
• Lead meetings, make key decisions and drive art direction at the highest level of the project and give creative direction
• Support and guide leads, empowering them to manage their teams maintaining consistency and quality across the project
• Manage/report issues of any art conflicts that would interfere with the visual goals, performance, or scheduling
• Conduct regular 1 to 1s, manage performance and development plans. And mentor team members on both creative and production practices
• As needed, build and maintain effective relationships and deliver art direction  with outsourcing partners to scale art production for games and marketing without compromising standards
• Review art candidates in all disciplines and conduct interviews
• Own and constantly improve  the candidate selection experience and process 
4. Cross-Discipline Coordination
• Communicate and collaborate in a positive and supportive way across all disciplines in the project leadership team to achieve the best art direction for the project while minimising conflict and maximising resolution to complete the project.
• Drive team wide communication around scheduling, dependencies and technical considerations
• Contribute to the Double Eleven Way by working with our business operations teams to continually improve the way we make games and support our people
5. Technical & Pipeline Oversight
• Own and oversee the technical and creative process across all art disciplines; from tools and workflows to getting assets in game, ensuring they all scale with the demands of a live service game
• Partner with engineering teams to define requirements for new tools, optimisations, or pipeline improvements.
• Ensure all art content is performant, game-ready and optimised for the target platforms and release cadence
6. Stakeholder Communication & Reporting
• Regular weekly insight reporting through our internal tools
• Effectively communicate, present, and negotiate (verbal and written) at the highest level to key stakeholders around the production needs
• Regularly present art direction and content plans to internal stakeholders and our partners, ensuring alignment with project goals
• Support publishing team with art requirements for trailers, key art and other promotional materials, coordinating with production where necessary

What we’re looking for

• Extensive experience as a Game Lead/Assistant/Art Director with multiple shipped titles displayed in a strong, relevant, digital portfolio
• Able to deliver outstanding art direction to align with the set game design for the project
• Working inline with all cross discipline leads and managers to deliver on set expectations
• Able to create, manage and maintain the Art Bible and documentation for the art direction of the project
• Able to lead and facilitate expanding core ideas, concepts and style guides around a designed gameplay ideas
• Able to manage a full spectrum of Artists, across multiple experience levels
• Understand technical creative processes of all art disciplines to help build out the art pipeline and tools required to set art direction of the game.
• Able to imagine/create current game art styles that work within each game genre to be able to create the key art direction/technicalities for the designs of the projects 
• Will need to have a full technical graphical knowledge of current game engines to create graphics that suit the production and performance required for various outputs and quality
• Experienced in coaching artists/teams on all areas of games art
• Experience working in varied art styles and 3D software across all disciplines to have deep knowledge on all modern art process within games
• Experience with popular game engines, preferably Unity / Unreal
• Experience with shaders and real-time rendering pipelines to include PBR workflow experience (Substance Painter / Designer) Visual art skills, e.g. illustration, graphic design, VFX experience
• Excellent observation and research skills
• Experienced knowledge of the video game industry and awareness of the video game development processes
• Excellent understanding of art fundamentals across all art disciplines
• Experience working in an Agile workflow
• Self starter, highly creative, and dependable with strong time management skills
• Strong design and motion skills using  After Effects to create exciting presentations to teams and clients

Qualifications

• All relevant qualifications considered

What to expect

Working life at Double Eleven 

• Start your day any time between 9:00am and 11:00am
• 35 working hours per week with a 1 hour lunch break (with the opportunity to flex down to 30 minutes or up to 2 hours)
• 14 days annual leave + holidays gazetted by the Federal Government of Malaysia or by the state (where holidays fall on a weekend, you’ll receive either the Monday or Friday as extra holiday!) 
• 1 day leave for your birthday
• Up to 10 days discretionary annual leave during our end of year break
• 1 day leave if you’re moving house
• Potential for annual performance bonus
• Best-in-class tools and workflow so you can focus on creativity
• 3 additional days annual leave for 5 years service and a further 3 days annual leave for your 10 years service milestone
• State of the art office facilities in an central location with excellent transport routes
• Assorted fruit and bread options, juice, hot drinks and fruit
• Employee referral bonus (up to MYR5,000!)
• Free game codes, game swag and merchandise
• On site parking expensed

Professional development and wellbeing

• Free gym membership at a local gym in Mid Valley City
• Company private healthcare cover in-patient and out-patient for you, your spouse and children
• Access to mental health and wellbeing support via Plumm (includes 4 free video therapy sessions per month for both the employee and up to 3 family members aged 18+), unlimited text therapy, courses, meditations
• A personalised development plan with dedicated support tailored to your growth and goals
• An accredited Academy providing professional qualifications
• In-studio wellbeing programmes and People team support

Team life 

• Subsidised off-site team activities 
• Many team events to celebrate team and game milestones
• Sponsored team activities
• Opportunity to contribute to our internal Employee Diversity and Equality Network

Ways to reach us

If you have a general query or if you need support with your application and/or an alternative way to apply, please do not hesitate to contact our Talent team at jobs@double11.com