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We are looking for an Art Team Lead to join our team and lead the delivery of high-quality creative work. In this role, you'll support and develop your team, encourage collaboration, drive results, and help create a positive and innovative working environment. You'll balance day-to-day delivery with a strategic mindset, making sound decisions, adapting to change, and ensuring the team produces great work that meets quality and business goals.

Responsibilities:

Provides Technical Design Leadership

Actively sets the direction for new developmental projects in the team
Maintains a thorough knowledge of all applications and pipelines supported by the Creative Service Team
Collaborates with team members to ensure that all new developed products on the production pipeline have a template archived and white paper documented
Provides training and on-going support for new Creative Service team members
Helps to maintain the project schedule, assigns relevant resources and facilitates information flow between relevant parties to ensure project deliverables and deadlines are understood and agreed
Researches industry best practices, establishes benchmarks and initiates processes and workflow improvements where necessary
Co-ordinates and communicates all deliverables to ensure that all project deadlines are met

Manage Team (Creative Service)

Assists in mentoring and training programmes for the team.
Collaborates, co-ordinates and communicates all deliverables to ensure that all project deadlines are met.
Effectively allocates appropriate resources to projects, to ensure that project deadlines and requirements are met.
Ensures that company issues, policies and procedures are communicated to the team within 7 days.
Ensures that the team business plan is aligned with the company strategy and working towards achieving the strategy.
Ensures that the team members are equipped with the requisite skill set required for both current and future projects by developing a training and career development plan for each team member.
Communicates professionally and effectively with managers and international partners.
Conducts performance appraisals of team members, taking into account Peer and Manager feedback.
Monitors performance of team members on an ongoing basis and takes effective steps to deal with non-performance.
Oversees all aspects of the team by facilitating and resolving issues, through effective problem solving and communication skills.
Provides feedback to Creative Manager, on a regular basis, regarding team performance and project progress.

Facilitates Interface Design for Software Applications

Conducts the necessary research to understanding project scope.
Collaborates with team and Creative Manager on software requirements, i.e. initial layouts, colour choices and basic design of interface
Facilitates creation of game interfaces ensuring design meets software and interface functionality requirements.
Ensures technical knowledge is shared and applied in the design of high quality graphics to ensure all the functional requirements are met.
Ensures Brand integrity is maintained throughout the design process
Ensures final graphics are quality assured as per requirement specification, and team standards.
Co-ordinates and communicates all deliverables to ensure that all project deadlines are me

Communication

- Ensures that all written communication is concise and clear, and that ideas and information are clearly conveyed.
- Communicates effectively and appropriately with internal and external parties.
- Clarifies the importance and purpose of the communication.
- Gathers appropriate information in order to review progress.
- Provide feedback and if necessary will meet with others to review the results of assigned work.
- Communicates respectfully and professionally to ensure the brand of the company is maintained & upheld at all times.

Qualifications:

Relevant tertiary qualification, and/or
7+ years experience in a creative role
Previous experience in a senior or leadership role is an advantage

Art Team Lead: Behavioural Outputs

Adaptably Resilient
- Adapts to change, is open to new ideas and willing to take on new responsibilities.
- Able to handle pressure and can effectively adjusts plans to meet changing needs/demands.
- Changes interpersonal style and approach based on the circumstance.
- Adapts behavior to maintain cooperative relationships with others.
- Thinks through implications of changes.
- Makes an effort to treat people in a way that makes them feel comfortable and respected.
- Accepts changes to tasks, plans and procedures.
- Appropriately adjusts behavior and activities to changing conditions.
- Maintains a positive attitude in the face of change.
Decision-making Quality
- Makes confident, timely, fact-based decisions drawing on a broad range of resources.
- Is definitive and acts on decisions with a sense of calculated risk-taking.
- Ensures others understand the decision before moving forward.
- Considers short and long-term implications of decisions.
- Able to logically defend and explain judgments and decisions.
- Takes steps to clearly and accurately define the problem before seeking a solution.
- Bases decisions and evaluations on a careful and systematic review of relevant facts and information.
Collaborative Relationships
- Is an honest and dependable team player who contributes to group collaboration and consensual decision making.
- Builds and maintains good working relationships with others, while displaying empathy and respect for others.
- Actively participates in team meetings and activities.
- Encourages and facilitates team cooperation and participation.
- Shows enthusiasm towards being a member of the group.
- Supports team decisions.
- Honors team commitments and deadlines.
Drives Results
- Sets challenging and productive goals whilst being accountable for own actions.
- Provides motivation and support to others.
- Uses data, checkpoints, systems and processes to track progress and measure results.
- Places priority on tasks that result in clear, measurable progress toward specific goals and objectives.
- Pursues challenging goals and objectives.
- Pushes self and others to do all they can do to accomplish goals.
- Enthusiastically drives after goals.
- Follows through on commitments.
Communicates and Influences Effectively
- Shares information.
- Listens and involves others.
- Clearly conveys ideas in a manner that engages others and helps them understand and retain the message.
- Expresses ideas and information in a clear and concise manner.
- Delivers information in a manner that is interesting and compelling to the audience.
- Tailors message to fit the interests and needs of the audience.
- Able to relate to a variety of different audience members.
Strategic Mindset
- Identifies key issues and relationships relevant to achieving the long-range goals or vision of the organization.
- Aligns objectives and activities to the broader strategic needs of the team and organization.
- Addresses activities that do not align with or support the broader strategic goals of the company.
- Aligns day-to-day activities around broader organizational goals and objectives.
- Defines job tasks and objectives based on the broader strategic goals of the company.
- Recognizes and rewards others based on how their actions support the broader needs of the company.
Develops Talent
- Values the difference that each individual contributes and connects own role to overall organizational and team success.
- Provides support, direction and guidance in team and collaborative settings.
- Provides timely guidance and feedback to others and assists others to develop specific knowledge and skills to accomplish tasks or solve problems.
- Invests time and resources into building the capabilities of team members.
- Encourages and empowers others to fully realize their own potential.
- Gives others constructive, developmental feedback and advice.
- Demonstrates interest in others’ career goals.
Resourceful and Improving
- Generates new ideas, challenges the status quo, takes risks, supports change, encourages innovation, and solves problems creatively.
- Searches for opportunities to create and share new ideas.
- Embraces and supports change.
- Solves problems through questioning the status quo.
- Has an open mind and builds on others’ ideas.

Equal Opportunities Statement

Games Global is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, experiences, and communities. We do not discriminate based on race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, neurodiversity or any other protected status. Our dedication to promoting diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion is clearly reflected across all our teams. Join us and be a part of an organisation that is truly committed to creating a level playing field for everyone.

Kindly be aware that in order to be employed at Games Global, you need to be 18 years of age or older, in accordance with our industry requirements.

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