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JOB DESCRIPTION: Art Director
DISCIPLINE: Creative Leadership | Art
REPORTS TO: Head of Studio
The Studio
Compulsion Games, part of Microsofts Xbox Game Studios, is based in Montreal, Canada. Since 2009, weve been dedicated to crafting extraordinary games that explore the depths of human experience. Our titles, including Contrast, We Happy Few , and the more recently shipped South of Midnight are gamesacclaimed for their unique art, immersive music, rich worlds, and captivating stories.
Studio Culture
At Compulsion Games, we nurture a human-first culture founded on trust, autonomy, harmony, and exceptional craft. Our team values experimentation and artistic expression, embracing diversity and inclusivity as core principles. We believe that creativity thrives in an environment where everyone feels heard and respected.
The Role
As an Art Director at Compulsion Games, you will define and guide the artistic vision for our next project. Youll lead the art, concept, character, environment, and VFX teams, ensuring every visual element supports the games creative direction and deepens player immersion.
Youll work closely with directors, designers, and technical teams to align aesthetic ambition with technical feasibility and ensure that art pipelines and workflows support the teams success.
Responsibilities:
- Define and maintain the artistic visions and quality benchmarks for the project.
- Work with concept, character, environment, and VFX teams to ensure cohesive world-building.
- Oversee art guidelines, style guides, and technical constraints.
- Ensure art assets meet both creative and technical needs.
- Collaborate with technical artists and engineers to optimize visuals for performance.
- Guide and mentor artists, providing feedback and creative direction.
- Work with narrative and design teams to ensure visuals elevate gameplay and storytelling.
- Collaborate with producers to create realistic schedules and deliverables.
- Stay current with art trends, new tools, and best practices.
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and artistic excellence.
Skills & Experience;
- Extensive experience in game art, ideally with exposure to an art leadership position.
- Expertise in concept art, environment art, character design, and VFX.
- Strong grasp of artistic composition, color theory, lighting, and visual storytelling.
- Experience with Unreal Engine and art pipelines.
- Ability to balance creative vision with production constraints.
- Strong communication, leadership, and mentorship skills.
- Passion for creating visually stunning, emotionally engaging worlds.
What We Offer
This full-time role offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits, including full health care coverage for you and your family, RRSP matching, relocation support, mental health and wellness programs, MS Store discounts, 3 weeks of vacation plus two week-long studio closures, and other perks.
Our Montreal studio, near Atwater Metro station, operates with hybrid and fully remote options for employees based in orrelocating to Canada.
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DESCRIPTION DE POSTE : Directeur.trice Artistique
DISCIPLINE : Leadership Crative
RELVE DE : Directeur trice du Studio
Le Studio
Compulsion Games, faisant partie des Xbox Game Studios de Microsoft, est bas Montral, au Canada. Depuis 2009, nous nous consacrons la cration de jeux extraordinaires qui explorent les profondeurs de lexprience humaine. Nos titres, dont Contrast, We Happy Few et le plus rcent South of Midnight, sont tous salus pour leur art unique, leur musique immersive, leurs mondes riches et leurs histoires captivantes.
Culture du Studio
Chez Compulsion Games, nous valorisons une culture centre sur lhumain , axe sur la confiance, lautonomie, lharmonie et un savoir-faire exceptionnel. Notre quipe encourage lexprimentation et lexpression artistique, tout en adoptant la diversit et laccessibilit comme valeurs fondamentales. Nous croyons que la crativit spanouit dans un environnement o chaque voix compte.
Le Rle
En tant que Directeur Artistique chez Compulsion Games, vous dfinirez et guiderez la vision artistique de notre prochain projet. Vous dirigerez les quipes en charge de lart, du concept, des personnages, des environnements et des effets visuels (VFX), en veillant ce que chaque lment visuel soutienne la direction crative du jeu et approfondisse limmersion des joueurs.
Vous collaborerez avec les directeurs, designers et quipes techniques pour quilibrer ambition artistique et faisabilit technique, et veillerez ce que les pipelines artistiques et workflows soutiennent la russite de lquipe.
Responsabilits
- Dfinir et maintenir la vision artistique et les standards de qualit du projet.
- Collaborer avec les quipes de concept, personnages, environnements et VFX pour garantir une cohrence visuelle.
- Superviser les directives artistiques, guides de style et contraintes techniques.
- Sassurer que les assets artistiques rpondent aux besoins cratifs et techniques.
- Collaborer avec les technical artists et ingnieurs pour optimiser les visuels.
- Encadrer et guider les artistes, en fournissant des feedbacks et une direction crative.
- Travailler avec les quipes narratives et design pour garantir que les visuels amliorent le gameplay et la narration.
- Collaborer avec les producteurs pour laborer des plannings ralistes et assurer les livrables.
- Se tenir jour sur les tendances, les outils et les meilleures pratiques artistiques.
- Promouvoir une culture d'innovation, de collaboration et d'excellence artistique.
Comptences et Exprience
- Exprience approfondie dans le domaine de lart pour les jeux vido, idalement avec une exprience en tant que leader artistique.
- Expertise en art conceptuel, environnement, design de personnages et VFX.
- Excellente matrise de la composition, de la thorie des couleurs, de lclairage et de la narration visuelle.
- Exprience avec Unreal Engine et les pipelines artistiques.
- Capacit quilibrer vision crative et contraintes de production.
- Excellentes comptences en communication, leadership et mentorat.
- Passion pour la cration de mondes visuellement saisasissants et motionnellement puissants.
Ce que Nous Offrons
Ce poste temps plein offre un salaire comptitif et des avantages complets : couverture sant pour vous et votre famille, REER avec contribution quivalente, soutien la relocalisation, programmes de sant mentale et bien-tre, rductions Microsoft Store, 3 semaines de vacances et deux fermetures annuelles dune semaine, ainsi que de nombreux autres avantages.
Notre studio Montral, prs de la station de mtro Atwater, offre des options de travail hybride ou entirement distance pour les employs bass au Canada ou souhaitant sy installer.
Art Director
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Wondershare Technology is a leading global consumer software company dedicated in providing integrated lifestyle technology solutions for our users across the world. We believe that creativity can enable a better future. Our Canada office in Burnaby is the heart of the company's Creative and Brand Marketing operations. Our talented team of multi-disciplinary creators, marketers and strategists have one thing in common: the desire to bring our products to all users who want to broaden the limits to their imagination.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with the team with creative audits to elevate innovation and establish a unified brand understanding and company voice
- Conceptualize campaign vision, harnessing original graphics, copy, website content, social media, and other marketing materials
- Develop creative briefs based on ideas from brainstorming sessions, with direction, schedules, and deliverables for the creative team
- Delegate projects to in-house designers and oversee visual identity, key visual, graphic design and design adaptation requirements.
- Obtain team approval from stakeholders and maintain scheduel and deliverables.
- Respond to internal design requirments and requests
- Oversee presentation of final concepts and coordinate production and dissemination for cross-organizational use
- Take full ownership of the work
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in fine art, graphic design, or similar discipline
- Eight or more years of professional experience in graphic design, with four or more years in a management role
- Excellent communucatons skills
- Proficiency with design software such as Adobe Creative Cloud
- Exceptional ability in typography, layout, and prototyping
- Highly skilled in leading a team of creatives
- Strong creative vision with attention to business objectives
- Proficiency in design software such as Adobe Creative Suite and Figma
- Strong understanding of typography, color theory, and layout design.
- Bonus: Proficiency in motion design software like After Effects, Cinema 4D, or similar.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted design tools such as Midjourney, Krea, and other current image generation platforms. Ability to integrate AI into the creative process to enhance ideation, rapid prototyping, and asset development.
Compensation Package:
- Competitive salary commensurate with experience
- Bonus incentive program paid quarterly.
- Comprehensive benefits after 3 months including extended health and dental.
- Personal spending account + Health spending account
- Vacation: 15 days
- Paid sick days
- Lots of growth opportunities
Due to the high volume of applications, we receive, only those shortlisted will be contacted. Thank you for your interest in career opportunities at Wondershare.
Wondershare is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, religion, family status, marital status, physical responsibilities.
Art Director
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Wondershare Technology is a leading global consumer software company dedicated in providing integrated lifestyle technology solutions for our users across the world. We believe that creativity can enable a better future. Our Canada office in Burnaby is the heart of the company's Creative and Brand Marketing operations. Our talented team of multi-disciplinary creators, marketers and strategists have one thing in common: the desire to bring our products to all users who want to broaden the limits to their imagination.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with the team with creative audits to elevate innovation and establish a unified brand understanding and company voice
- Conceptualize campaign vision, harnessing original graphics, copy, website content, social media, and other marketing materials
- Develop creative briefs based on ideas from brainstorming sessions, with direction, schedules, and deliverables for the creative team
- Delegate projects to in-house designers and oversee visual identity, key visual, graphic design and design adaptation requirements.
- Obtain team approval from stakeholders and maintain scheduel and deliverables.
- Respond to internal design requirments and requests
- Oversee presentation of final concepts and coordinate production and dissemination for cross-organizational use
- Take full ownership of the work
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in fine art, graphic design, or similar discipline
- Eight or more years of professional experience in graphic design, with four or more years in a management role
- Excellent communucatons skills
- Proficiency with design software such as Adobe Creative Cloud
- Exceptional ability in typography, layout, and prototyping
- Highly skilled in leading a team of creatives
- Strong creative vision with attention to business objectives
- Proficiency in design software such as Adobe Creative Suite and Figma
- Strong understanding of typography, color theory, and layout design.
- Bonus: Proficiency in motion design software like After Effects, Cinema 4D, or similar.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted design tools such as Midjourney, Krea, and other current image generation platforms. Ability to integrate AI into the creative process to enhance ideation, rapid prototyping, and asset development.
Compensation Package:
- Competitive salary commensurate with experience
- Bonus incentive program paid quarterly.
- Comprehensive benefits after 3 months including extended health and dental.
- Personal spending account + Health spending account
- Vacation: 15 days
- Paid sick days
- Lots of growth opportunities
Due to the high volume of applications, we receive, only those shortlisted will be contacted. Thank you for your interest in career opportunities at Wondershare.
Wondershare is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, religion, family status, marital status, physical responsibilities.
Senior Art Director
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Salary: $100,000 - $120,000
Oh, hello there creative one
Funday is a full-service & fully-remote agency made up of people who are friendly and hardworking in equal measure. Inspired by an unrelenting belief that having fun is integral to creativity, we like to say were all about fun and brains. You know, that sweet spot between where pretty and performance meet and where insight and imagination produce the entirely unexpected? Thats where we thrive.
Senior Art Director
As a Senior Art Director, you will report directly to a Creative Director. Our clients and our team members are scattered around the globe. Your role will be varied and may change from day-to-day. We need you to be senior enough that you can act as a guide for a junior on an account and also be willing to get your hands on the tools as youll sometimes be the only creative on a project. Were a small group so everyone gets their hands dirty. Youll always be working with a team who has a passion for great work, as well as strategists, technologists, and producers who will help you push the work forward.
You are a maker and a storyteller, and you're curious. You use your craft to bring creative solutions to life. You lead projects into fun & inspiring creative territories. You know the FUNdamentals, and are good enough to break the rules. Youre happy to forge your own path, but you know when to get others involved.
Location youll work remotely from anywhere in BC, AB, ON.
What youll do
Concept Development
Team up with our strategists, designers, and copywriters to cook up fresh, bold ideas thatll make people stop and stare whether its for ads, branding, digital content, or social media. Bring your creative fire to art direction, blending the hottest trends with your personal flair to create something truly unique and unforgettable.
Project Execution
Lead art direction across TV spots, print, and social campaigns. From mood boards to storyboards and production roll-out, youll be key to helping the team to perfect every detail. Take feedback in stride, tweak the creative, and make sure every campaign wows and drives results.
Unleash Your Craft
Get your hands dirty, designing everything from the basics to bold, complex campaigns. Bring your A-game to every project, elevating the work and ensuring top-notch quality.
Client Interaction
Team up with the Engagement Manager and Creative Director to share ideas with clients, embrace feedback as an opportunity, and turn it into action. Our goal? To make every client meeting the highlight of their day.
Team Collaboration & Mentorship
Join our dynamic team of creators, where collaboration and enthusiasm fuel great work. Embrace peer feedback, knowing the best ideas come from a group effort. Stay open to change and always push ideas further. If we defines how you approach work, Funday is where you belong.
What youll need to succeed
- Portfolio demonstrating conceptual skills that result in innovative and inspiring creative solutions
- Work that demonstrates outstanding craft in art direction and design
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in creative agency (or similar, e.g. working in-house somewhere)
- Curiosity and a passion for digital media and the latest trends in tech
- Ability to juggle multiple projects/tasks
- The ability to collaborate, take constructive criticism, and seek out and act on peer/client feedback, all of which are essential to good team chemistry and client relations
- Experience managing / mentoring junior team members
- A strong desire to make work that works sells products, makes clients swoon, and hopefully wins some metal
- Marketing sense and an interest in helping to develop campaigns that can work across channels
- You know the tools proficiency in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop. Knowledge in After Effects, Figma is a plus
Youll want to read this part
- Dont forget to include your portfolio - if there isnt a portfolio, we wont consider your application. Sounds harsh, but we get LOTS of applications.
- If you live in Canada, are able to work here and you are in one of these provinces: BC, AB, ON - please apply! Otherwise, were sorry, we wont be able to employ you.
- Please note: we post the same role in multiple locations to help us cast a wide net. Applying to each location for a posting will not increase your chances. Now that we've saved you some time, go do something fun!
- This posting is for an existing vacancy we are looking to fill immediately and not a prospective future role (i.e. were saying this isnt a ghost job).
Come be a Funatic
We believe you wont perform at your best if youre not having fun. And you cant have fun if youre not performing. We believe that this creates the best client + agency relationships, and is the best way to make great work.
We believe in respect, inclusivity, kindness, equity, and equality. We want to make a positive impact. We believe that collaboration is the fun part of being at work. We strive to create a culture in which we is more important than me.
Apart from loving terrible fun puns, were a start-up, and we're growing fast which means youll have a chance to make your mark and grow with us. Were also almost 100% remote, and that might not appeal to everyone but if you value flexibility, its perfect.
Join us.
remote work
Senior Art Director
Posted 2 days ago
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Job Description
Salary: $100,000 - $120,000
Oh, hello there creative one
Funday is a full-service & fully-remote agency made up of people who are friendly and hardworking in equal measure. Inspired by an unrelenting belief that having fun is integral to creativity, we like to say were all about fun and brains. You know, that sweet spot between where pretty and performance meet and where insight and imagination produce the entirely unexpected? Thats where we thrive.
Senior Art Director
As a Senior Art Director, you will report directly to a Creative Director. Our clients and our team members are scattered around the globe. Your role will be varied and may change from day-to-day. We need you to be senior enough that you can act as a guide for a junior on an account and also be willing to get your hands on the tools as youll sometimes be the only creative on a project. Were a small group so everyone gets their hands dirty. Youll always be working with a team who has a passion for great work, as well as strategists, technologists, and producers who will help you push the work forward.
You are a maker and a storyteller, and you're curious. You use your craft to bring creative solutions to life. You lead projects into fun & inspiring creative territories. You know the FUNdamentals, and are good enough to break the rules. Youre happy to forge your own path, but you know when to get others involved.
Location youll work remotely from anywhere in BC, AB, ON.
What youll do
Concept Development
Team up with our strategists, designers, and copywriters to cook up fresh, bold ideas thatll make people stop and stare whether its for ads, branding, digital content, or social media. Bring your creative fire to art direction, blending the hottest trends with your personal flair to create something truly unique and unforgettable.
Project Execution
Lead art direction across TV spots, print, and social campaigns. From mood boards to storyboards and production roll-out, youll be key to helping the team to perfect every detail. Take feedback in stride, tweak the creative, and make sure every campaign wows and drives results.
Unleash Your Craft
Get your hands dirty, designing everything from the basics to bold, complex campaigns. Bring your A-game to every project, elevating the work and ensuring top-notch quality.
Client Interaction
Team up with the Engagement Manager and Creative Director to share ideas with clients, embrace feedback as an opportunity, and turn it into action. Our goal? To make every client meeting the highlight of their day.
Team Collaboration & Mentorship
Join our dynamic team of creators, where collaboration and enthusiasm fuel great work. Embrace peer feedback, knowing the best ideas come from a group effort. Stay open to change and always push ideas further. If we defines how you approach work, Funday is where you belong.
What youll need to succeed
- Portfolio demonstrating conceptual skills that result in innovative and inspiring creative solutions
- Work that demonstrates outstanding craft in art direction and design
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in creative agency (or similar, e.g. working in-house somewhere)
- Curiosity and a passion for digital media and the latest trends in tech
- Ability to juggle multiple projects/tasks
- The ability to collaborate, take constructive criticism, and seek out and act on peer/client feedback, all of which are essential to good team chemistry and client relations
- Experience managing / mentoring junior team members
- A strong desire to make work that works sells products, makes clients swoon, and hopefully wins some metal
- Marketing sense and an interest in helping to develop campaigns that can work across channels
- You know the tools proficiency in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop. Knowledge in After Effects, Figma is a plus
Youll want to read this part
- Dont forget to include your portfolio - if there isnt a portfolio, we wont consider your application. Sounds harsh, but we get LOTS of applications.
- If you live in Canada, are able to work here and you are in one of these provinces: BC, AB, ON - please apply! Otherwise, were sorry, we wont be able to employ you.
- Please note: we post the same role in multiple locations to help us cast a wide net. Applying to each location for a posting will not increase your chances. Now that we've saved you some time, go do something fun!
- This posting is for an existing vacancy we are looking to fill immediately and not a prospective future role (i.e. were saying this isnt a ghost job).
Come be a Funatic
We believe you wont perform at your best if youre not having fun. And you cant have fun if youre not performing. We believe that this creates the best client + agency relationships, and is the best way to make great work.
We believe in respect, inclusivity, kindness, equity, and equality. We want to make a positive impact. We believe that collaboration is the fun part of being at work. We strive to create a culture in which we is more important than me.
Apart from loving terrible fun puns, were a start-up, and we're growing fast which means youll have a chance to make your mark and grow with us. Were also almost 100% remote, and that might not appeal to everyone but if you value flexibility, its perfect.
Join us.
remote work
Senior Art Director
Posted 2 days ago
Job Viewed
Job Description
Job Description
Salary: $100,000 - $120,000
Oh, hello there creative one
Funday is a full-service & fully-remote agency made up of people who are friendly and hardworking in equal measure. Inspired by an unrelenting belief that having fun is integral to creativity, we like to say were all about fun and brains. You know, that sweet spot between where pretty and performance meet and where insight and imagination produce the entirely unexpected? Thats where we thrive.
Senior Art Director
As a Senior Art Director, you will report directly to a Creative Director. Our clients and our team members are scattered around the globe. Your role will be varied and may change from day-to-day. We need you to be senior enough that you can act as a guide for a junior on an account and also be willing to get your hands on the tools as youll sometimes be the only creative on a project. Were a small group so everyone gets their hands dirty. Youll always be working with a team who has a passion for great work, as well as strategists, technologists, and producers who will help you push the work forward.
You are a maker and a storyteller, and you're curious. You use your craft to bring creative solutions to life. You lead projects into fun & inspiring creative territories. You know the FUNdamentals, and are good enough to break the rules. Youre happy to forge your own path, but you know when to get others involved.
Location youll work remotely from anywhere in BC, AB, ON.
What youll do
Concept Development
Team up with our strategists, designers, and copywriters to cook up fresh, bold ideas thatll make people stop and stare whether its for ads, branding, digital content, or social media. Bring your creative fire to art direction, blending the hottest trends with your personal flair to create something truly unique and unforgettable.
Project Execution
Lead art direction across TV spots, print, and social campaigns. From mood boards to storyboards and production roll-out, youll be key to helping the team to perfect every detail. Take feedback in stride, tweak the creative, and make sure every campaign wows and drives results.
Unleash Your Craft
Get your hands dirty, designing everything from the basics to bold, complex campaigns. Bring your A-game to every project, elevating the work and ensuring top-notch quality.
Client Interaction
Team up with the Engagement Manager and Creative Director to share ideas with clients, embrace feedback as an opportunity, and turn it into action. Our goal? To make every client meeting the highlight of their day.
Team Collaboration & Mentorship
Join our dynamic team of creators, where collaboration and enthusiasm fuel great work. Embrace peer feedback, knowing the best ideas come from a group effort. Stay open to change and always push ideas further. If we defines how you approach work, Funday is where you belong.
What youll need to succeed
- Portfolio demonstrating conceptual skills that result in innovative and inspiring creative solutions
- Work that demonstrates outstanding craft in art direction and design
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in creative agency (or similar, e.g. working in-house somewhere)
- Curiosity and a passion for digital media and the latest trends in tech
- Ability to juggle multiple projects/tasks
- The ability to collaborate, take constructive criticism, and seek out and act on peer/client feedback, all of which are essential to good team chemistry and client relations
- Experience managing / mentoring junior team members
- A strong desire to make work that works sells products, makes clients swoon, and hopefully wins some metal
- Marketing sense and an interest in helping to develop campaigns that can work across channels
- You know the tools proficiency in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop. Knowledge in After Effects, Figma is a plus
Youll want to read this part
- Dont forget to include your portfolio - if there isnt a portfolio, we wont consider your application. Sounds harsh, but we get LOTS of applications.
- If you live in Canada, are able to work here and you are in one of these provinces: BC, AB, ON - please apply! Otherwise, were sorry, we wont be able to employ you.
- Please note: we post the same role in multiple locations to help us cast a wide net. Applying to each location for a posting will not increase your chances. Now that we've saved you some time, go do something fun!
- This posting is for an existing vacancy we are looking to fill immediately and not a prospective future role (i.e. were saying this isnt a ghost job).
Come be a Funatic
We believe you wont perform at your best if youre not having fun. And you cant have fun if youre not performing. We believe that this creates the best client + agency relationships, and is the best way to make great work.
We believe in respect, inclusivity, kindness, equity, and equality. We want to make a positive impact. We believe that collaboration is the fun part of being at work. We strive to create a culture in which we is more important than me.
Apart from loving terrible fun puns, were a start-up, and we're growing fast which means youll have a chance to make your mark and grow with us. Were also almost 100% remote, and that might not appeal to everyone but if you value flexibility, its perfect.
Join us.
remote work
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