Lead Producer - Art Outsourcing
Scopely is looking for a Lead Producer, Art Outsourcing to join our Studio Operations team in Canada on a remote basis.
At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.
The Studio Ops Team forms part of the mission to enable our game teams to produce the highest quality art, reach cost reductions, and highest efficiency through art-production excellence and the right partner choices.
What You Will Do
You would assist in creation and testing of new art strategies, vetting partner candidates, and drive optimization efforts of art- production pipelines to ultimately produce and deliver outstanding art to delight our players in an impactful way.
The responsibilities include participating in streamlining and maintenance of company-wide processes, budget tracking, driving adoption of best-known methods across the board, and contributing in information-share initiatives between all the game teams.
Great communication skills and diplomatic tactfulness are paramount in this role as a big part of the work is about building new bridges for collaboration and beneficial synergies between different game teams and central teams.
Level up Scopely’s Central Outsourcing Program.
Work with top games in all the important gaming platforms.
Improve and execute art- outsourcing-budget processes.
Provide made-to-measure advice to empower our game teams.
Build and gather knowledge to our database.
Create content and improve our intra information hub.
Collaborate with other central teams like the Finance, InfoSec, IT, and the Legal teams
Build and nurture game teams’ and partners’ relationships.
Improve art production processes with both game teams and external partners
Improve reporting tools.
Proactively communicate with art production across the teams to ensure proper reporting.
Identify and suggest areas for outsourcing cost optimization using data driven analysis.
Produce periodic reports on art outsourcing vendors, assets, costs, efficiency etc.
Conduct investigation and produce valuable content for Art Directors,Art Managers and Art Producers in the game teams.
Find and vet new potential art-outsource partners.
What We’re Looking For
8+ years of Art or Art Production Experience
Wide issue & project tracking software experience
Familiarity of wide variety of art-production pipelines
Experience with standard productivity tools such as Google Sheets or Excel
Experience with production tools such as Autodesk Flow Production Tracking (formerly ShotGun or ShotGrid), and Jira
Experience in interacting with game teams and vendors
Familiarity with invoices, contracts, POs, budgets, and technical systems
Ability to work well across multiple projects
Excellent communication skills
Detail oriented
Great organization skills
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Lead Producer - Art Outsourcing
Scopely is looking for a Lead Producer, Art Outsourcing to join our Studio Operations team in Canada on a remote basis.
At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.
The Studio Ops Team forms part of the mission to enable our game teams to produce the highest quality art, reach cost reductions, and highest efficiency through art-production excellence and the right partner choices.
What You Will Do
You would assist in creation and testing of new art strategies, vetting partner candidates, and drive optimization efforts of art- production pipelines to ultimately produce and deliver outstanding art to delight our players in an impactful way.
The responsibilities include participating in streamlining and maintenance of company-wide processes, budget tracking, driving adoption of best-known methods across the board, and contributing in information-share initiatives between all the game teams.
Great communication skills and diplomatic tactfulness are paramount in this role as a big part of the work is about building new bridges for collaboration and beneficial synergies between different game teams and central teams.
Level up Scopely’s Central Outsourcing Program.
Work with top games in all the important gaming platforms.
Improve and execute art- outsourcing-budget processes.
Provide made-to-measure advice to empower our game teams.
Build and gather knowledge to our database.
Create content and improve our intra information hub.
Collaborate with other central teams like the Finance, InfoSec, IT, and the Legal teams
Build and nurture game teams’ and partners’ relationships.
Improve art production processes with both game teams and external partners
Improve reporting tools.
Proactively communicate with art production across the teams to ensure proper reporting.
Identify and suggest areas for outsourcing cost optimization using data driven analysis.
Produce periodic reports on art outsourcing vendors, assets, costs, efficiency etc.
Conduct investigation and produce valuable content for Art Directors,Art Managers and Art Producers in the game teams.
Find and vet new potential art-outsource partners.
What We’re Looking For
8+ years of Art or Art Production Experience
Wide issue & project tracking software experience
Familiarity of wide variety of art-production pipelines
Experience with standard productivity tools such as Google Sheets or Excel
Experience with production tools such as Autodesk Flow Production Tracking (formerly ShotGun or ShotGrid), and Jira
Experience in interacting with game teams and vendors
Familiarity with invoices, contracts, POs, budgets, and technical systems
Ability to work well across multiple projects
Excellent communication skills
Detail oriented
Great organization skills