Art Manager in Barcelona

Aristocrat

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Onsite
Hours
Full-Time
Internship
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Job Description

Art Lead – Innovation Lab

We’re looking for a dedicated Art Lead to shape the creative vision, execution, and team strategy for our Innovation Lab. This is a unique opportunity to influence the artistic direction of new games, ensure smooth collaboration across teams, and maintain high artistic and technical standards.

As Art Lead, you’ll guide the game’s creative vision from early concept to launch, working closely with the Art Director, Product Directors, Designers, Engineers, and Project Managers. Beyond creating stunning visuals, you’ll mentor a team of artists, foster collaboration, and drive innovation across multiple projects.

What You’ll Do

Creative & Strategic Leadership

  • Lead and shape the visual direction of games, ensuring alignment with player experience and business goals.

  • Innovate with new visual approaches that enhance gameplay and engagement.

  • Maintain artistic consistency, balancing high-quality visuals with clarity and readability.

Team Leadership & Management

  • Mentor and inspire artists across disciplines, guiding professional growth and fostering teamwork.

  • Set clear objectives and align the team with the overall vision.

  • Cultivate a positive, creative, and accountable team culture.

Project Execution & Coordination

  • Oversee art production pipelines and workflows for efficiency and quality.

  • Collaborate with designers, developers, and product managers to ensure visuals enhance gameplay.

  • Adapt to challenges, problem-solve, and maintain smooth development processes.

Operational Excellence

  • Refine processes to improve asset creation, implementation, and iteration.

  • Deliver compelling art concepts for prototyping and market testing.

  • Use data and player insights to optimize visual styles and player experience.

  • Ensure assets meet technical and performance standards across platforms.

What We’re Looking For

  • 5+ years leading or managing artists in mobile game development.
  • Proven experience delivering mobile game art from concept to launch.
  • Strong leadership, mentorship, and team-building skills.
  • Expertise in art pipelines, production tools, and optimization techniques.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.
  • Familiarity with iterative development, market testing, and prototyping.
  • Passionate about mobile games and innovation, with a focus on ensuring quality and **improving** player experience.

Perks

- Health insurance - CIGNA
- Gympass gold plan
- 25 vacation days + 1 day on your birthday
- Flexible payment - daycare, transport, etc
- Pension plan 1% base salary
- Food at the office twice a week

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So, what’s stopping you?

Our Values

  • People First

    We have the deepest respect for our people and their well being. We know they are exceptionally talented and will always have a choice. We want them to re-choose us every day. We are committed to building a culture where each person's voice will always be heard and addressed.

  • MAD for More

    Always improving, innovating and never settling for the existing. We push all boundaries with courage and ambition to become the world’s best games company.

  • Champion Together
    We excel at what we do but yet remain humble and helpful to our teammates. We champion one another and hold each other to high standards without any egos.

  • Globally Inclusive

    We are all Equal - regardless of the language we speak, where we live, our gender, religion or culture we come from. We want to build a global home, where everyone has the equal opportunity to make an impact.

  • Customer Focused

    We always think from the customer's perspective - be it players or internal customers.

    Improving their experience and joy is what drives us. Every client's success is our big win!

Travel Expectations: None


 

About Aristocrat

  • Entertainment

  • North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia

  • 5,000 - 10,000

Aristocrat Leisure Limited (Aristocrat) is a global entertainment and content creation company powered by technology to deliver world-leading casino and mobile games.

Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Aristocrat (ASX code: ALL) is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with over 7,300 employees working in more than 20 locations across the globe. Aristocrat offers a diverse range of products and services including electronic gaming machines, casino management systems, mobile games and online real money games, including iLottery.

Aristocrat has seven corporate functions and three reporting segments that span regulated land-based gaming (Aristocrat Gaming), social casino (Product Madness) and regulated online real money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive). Our game and product portfolios collectively entertain millions of players worldwide every day.

Across our global enterprise, Aristocrat aims to create long-term sustainable value for all stakeholders by upholding our core values and producing the world’s best gaming content.

Our people-first mindset prioritises the safety and wellbeing of our people. We have ambitions to be an industry leader in responsible gameplay and we invest in employees’ development and offer career pathways, so they have what they need to do their best work at Aristocrat.

Our values of Talent Unleashed, All About the Player, Collective Brilliance and Good Business, Good Citizen guide and inspire us every day.

We are excited about the future of Aristocrat and united by our mission and we invite everyone to join us as we…bring joy to life through the power of play!

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