Art Lead - Gaming

At Mindera, we craft software with people we love. 💛

We’re on the lookout for an Art Lead - Gaming to join our talented team and elevate our gaming projects to the next level. If you have a passion for creating immersive and captivating visual experiences in games, we want to hear from you!

As the Art Lead, you will guide the artistic vision for multiple projects, ensuring that every visual aspect aligns with the game’s narrative and enhances the overall user experience. Your leadership will inspire a team of artists and help cultivate a collaborative environment where creativity flourishes.

A successful candidate will have a strong portfolio showcasing your expertise in game art and design, alongside the ability to communicate your vision and bring the team together to achieve it.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the artistic vision and maintain a consistent stylized art style that aligns with the IP holder’s expectations and game direction.
• Oversee the full art production pipeline, ensuring high-quality and optimized assets for mobile platforms.
• Manage and mentor a large internal art team (3D artists, character artists, environment artists, VFX, UI/UX, animation) while also coordinating with external art vendors.
• Collaborate closely with key stakeholders, including game directors, designers, and IP holders, to align visuals with gameplay and brand expectations.
• Define art processes and workflows to ensure efficient asset production, integration, and optimization for high-performance mobile gaming.
• Drive outsourcing strategies, reviewing external work to ensure it meets quality standards and seamlessly integrates into the game.
• Ensure strong cross-discipline collaboration, working with Tech Art, Engineering, and Design to maintain performance and artistic fidelity.
• Maintain a strong understanding of the competitive landscape, industry trends, and best practices for mobile-first action shooters.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in game art production, with at least 5 years as an Art Lead.
• Proven track record working on mobile games (AA+/AAA) with big IPs and large client projects.
• Previous experience as an Art Lead on at least one released action or shooter game for mobile or PC.
• Strong experience in stylized art direction and ensuring consistency across environments, characters, UI, and VFX.
• Deep understanding of mobile game art production, performance constraints, and optimization.
• Extensive outsourcing experience—able to direct and manage external partners to maintain quality.
• Excellent leadership skills, with experience managing large art teams in a fast-paced production environment.
• Expert knowledge of industry-standard tools: Maya, Blender, ZBrush, Substance, Photoshop, Unreal Engine, Unity, etc.
• Strong ability to balance creative vision with technical feasibility and production constraints.
• Experience working with IP holders and major stakeholders to ensure brand consistency and compliance.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and organization skills.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with procedural workflows, tools development, and AI-assisted art pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with cinematics, motion capture, and real-time VFX.
• Understanding of monetization strategies and art production for live-service games.

Benefits

The Things We Really Care About:

• Health Insurance, because health comes first
• Flexible working hours
• Open holidays, take the time you need for yourself
• Profit distribution for everyone
• Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun!
• Training & conferences, create your own training plan
• Child Care vouchers

Other Good Things:

• Choose Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs
• Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT), for work or Netflix ;)
• We have amazing offices in Porto, Aveiro, and Coimbra if you want to physically connect with minders. Remote from Portugal is also an option. Remote from other Countries will depend on your current location and Projects.
• At the offices, we have a wide range of snacks to keep you fed and healthy
• Partnerships with local businesses

Most of all You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together in a politics-free environment. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organization attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. Freedom and Responsibility go hand in hand, and we value commitment, feedback, and empathy.

About Mindera

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.

Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.

We partner with our clients, to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.

Our culture reflects our lean and self management attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.

We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.

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