Senior Concept Artist

About the Position

We're looking for a Senior Concept Artist to join a new PC/Console third-person cozy life-sim game currently in pre-production. With a particular focus on environment art, you'll help shape the game's world, atmosphere, and player experience.

Responsibilities

• Create concept art for games, mainly focused on environments, taking ideas from the initial brief through exploration, development, polish, and final production-ready images.
• Explore different visual solutions through sketches, ideation, mood pieces, and more developed concepts. Use your artistic judgement to solve visual and design problems and help bring the game's visual direction to life.
• Work closely with artists, designers, Art Leadership, and Production to solve creative challenges and make sure your concepts are useful and practical for the rest of the team.
• Take feedback on board and refine your work while considering aspects like: artistic quality, readability, scale, cost, reuse, modularity, gameplay needs.
• Use modern Concept Art workflows, including AI-assisted tools, and contribute ideas that can make the team's creative process more efficient.

Requirements

• Proven experience creating concept art for games, supported by a portfolio showcasing environment concept art, visual development, and world building.
• Excellent Photoshop skills and practical experience with Blender or a similar 3D software package for ideation, blockouts, and concept exploration.
• Good ideation skills, with the ability to quickly explore multiple meaningful visual solutions through sketches and developed artwork.
• Excellent fundamental artistic knowledge on drawing, composition, perspective, color, value, proportions, lighting, visual design, shape language, visual hierarchy.
• A solid understanding of game development Concept Art workflows and production awareness, including how concepts support other Art Departments such as 3D, Animation, and VFX.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Unreal Engine
• Comfortable with AI-assisted workflows for Concept Art
• Experience with characters and prop design

Who You'll Be Working With

You'll report to the Principal Concept Artist Lead and join a team of 13 Concept Artists.

• The Concept Art team in Bucharest.
• Concept Artists from international co-development teams in Saigon, Yogyakarta, and Kyiv.
• Designers, Art teams, and Production teams across the project.

We Offer

• 2 months/year full remote work from anywhere
• MyBenefits platform - 45 RON/day
• Extra days off for seniority, birthday, and company anniversary
• Short Fridays, so you can start your weekend at 4PM
• Medical subscription with Regina Maria

About the Company

Life at Gameloft

• Hybrid work model
• Free coffee, fruits, and relaxation areas
• Inclusive and international work environment
• Supportive team culture and open communication style

How to Proceed

Want to be part of a creative, collaborative, and multicultural environment alongside talented industry professionals? Apply now with your CV in English and your portfolio.

If your experience matches the role, one of our recruiters will contact you to share more details about the opportunity and guide you through the next steps of the recruitment process.