Senior Outsource Supervisor, Environments

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Your Mission

As a Senior Outsource Supervisor, you will work on maintaining the vision set forth by the Art Leads and Art Directors as it relates to concepting and outsourcing environment assets for World of Warcraft. This includes props, foliage, illustrations, and architecture.

The ideal candidate for this position is experienced in creating and giving feedback for both 2D and 3D game assets, and has experience in concepting, modeling, UV mapping, texturing, and lighting. They will also have a solid grasp of art fundamentals and a deep understanding of the hand-painted Warcraft art style.

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Irvine, CA. However, we understand each person’s circumstances may be unique and will work with you to explore other possible options, including remote work arrangements.

What you offer:

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

• Concept assets to be sent out to external artists
• Drive outsource development by scheduling and tracking incoming/outgoing assets.
• Manage communications and provide feedback to artists, and help maintain a strong creative relationship between external and internal art teams
• Generate detailed documentation, visual reference, and examples of asset production, tools, procedures, and engine requirements to support the external vendors
• Own the quality control over all incoming art assets, providing detailed feedback and approvals to the vendor to deliver quality assets to the development team
• Communicate with Art Directors, Art Leads, Production, Design, and other departments to understand and deliver on external development needs
• Prototype and create block-out assets

Minimum Requirements

Experience

• Experience in game development creating 2D environment art
• Experience with 3D software packages and asset creation pipelines
• Experience communicating with external or remote teams

Knowledge & Skills

• Ability to craft production concepts (turnarounds and orthographic views) for props, foliage, architecture, and other needs.
• Organized, great follow-through, dedicated, and a standout teammate
• Clear and concise communication, leadership, and people skills
• Collaborate closely with Visual Development/Concept Artists and other teams
• Understand real-time game development needs
• Ability to explore a wide variety of ideas that push the World of Warcraft style
• Software experience such as 3ds Max (or equivalent) and Photoshop

Extra Points

• Proficiency with the use of production tracking tools such as Shotgrid / JIRA

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards. Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle.net®, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment.  We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics. 

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!  Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company.  You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.