Senior Art Manager

The role

This person will lead and support a team of artists. The role focuses on people management, team development, performance, staffing, and creating a healthy working environment.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and support a team of artists across one or more disciplines.
• Establish clear expectations, goals, and standards for individual and team performance.
• Provide regular feedback, coaching, performance reviews, and career guidance.
• Monitor team health, morale, workload, and engagement.
• Identify risks related to burnout, capacity, motivation, or team dynamics.
• Support hiring, interviewing, onboarding, role definition, and organizational planning.
• Manage team structure, staffing needs, succession planning, and resource allocation.
• Ensure artists are assigned to work matching their skills, experience, and development goals.
• Facilitate communication across the art team.
• Represent the needs, concerns, and achievements of the art team to leadership.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience working in game development.
• Proven experience managing, mentoring, or leading artists.
• Strong understanding of people management, performance management, and career development.
• Excellent communication, listening, conflict-resolution, and organizational skills.
• Ability to provide clear, constructive, and actionable feedback.
• Experience supporting teams through organizational change and evolving priorities.
• Strong judgment, empathy, discretion, and professionalism.
• Ability to balance individual needs with broader team and organizational priorities.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.

Nice to have

• Experience managing artists in a mobile, casual, or live-service game environment.
• Background in 2D, 3D, animation, VFX, UI, and/or technical art.
• Experience with hiring and workforce planning
• Familiarity with modern digital art tools, production workflows, and AI-assisted creative processes.

Before you apply

• Please submit your CV in English.

About the company

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company. They develop, publish, and live-operate a diversified portfolio of games including MONOPOLY GO! and Pokémon GO.