Senior Lead Artist (Outsourcing) | Minecraft Blast, New Games

Craft:

Art

Job Description:

We are looking for a Senior Lead Artist (Outsourcing) to guide and manage external art production for our mobile Minecraft project.

This role sits between Art Direction, internal teams, and external partners.

Your goal: make sure outsourced art meets our visual quality, technical needs, and production timelines.

The role is open to artists with a 2D and 3D background.

You will help translate art direction into clear briefs, review incoming assets, and maintain strong quality across a growing external pipeline.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage art production with external studios and freelance partners.
• Write clear art briefs and documentation for outsourced assets.
• Review outsourced deliveries and provide actionable feedback.
• Ensure assets match our visual direction and quality bar.
• Maintain consistency with the project’s cute, quirky, and polished tone .
• Track asset progress and flag risks early.
• Help scale production without lowering visual quality.
• Contribute to improving outsourcing workflows and documentation.
  
  

Collaboration and Integration

• Work closely with Art Direction to maintain visual consistency.
• Work with the Product Manager (PM) to act as a creative partner while tracking schedules, priorities, and vendor deliveries.
• Coordinate with internal artists across characters, environments, UI, and VFX.
• Align with Design and Tech teams to ensure assets integrate correctly.
• Communicate clearly with external partners across time zones and cultures.
• Support production by anticipating asset needs and planning ahead.
  
  

Required Skills And Experience

• Strong artistic background in 2D and 3D game art.
• Experience with Unity
• Experience managing outsourced art production.
• Previous experience leading external art teams or vendors.
• Ability to give clear, constructive visual feedback.
• Strong understanding of stylized game art pipelines.
• Experience working with asset tracking and production tools.
• Strong communication skills across internal and external teams.
• Good sense of visual consistency, readability, and quality control.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on casual or mobile games.
• Familiarity with Minecraft visual language and stylization.
• Experience reviewing assets across multiple disciplines (characters, environments, UI, props).
• Comfort working with both 2D and 3D pipelines.
  
  

What We Offer

• The opportunity to help shape the visual quality of a major global IP on mobile.
• A collaborative art team focused on craft and clarity.
• The chance to influence how a large outsourcing pipeline operates.
• A healthy work culture that values trust, ownership, and teamwork.
  
  

Success in this role means outsourced assets arrive production-ready, consistent with our art direction, and integrated smoothly into the game.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.