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NIKITOVA LLC is an international company headquartered in Chicago with production studio in Ukraine that has established business relations with major US publishers and developers. Currently we are seeking a highly-motivated, professional Outsourcing Artist to manage our Ukrainian art team and coordinate production process from our partner.s office located in San Francisco area, CA. The ideal candidate should have a solid understanding of all art production processes with particular strengths in environment and experience in supervising work of external or internal artist team.
Job description:
- Become the liaison between two modeling teams in two countries
- Participate in reviews of object models delivered by Nikitova production team to client and provide Nikitova production team with explanations and answers to production questions.
- Make own feedbacks in the future
- Participate in meetings with client.s modeling team aimed at establishing efficient collaboration between two teams
- Supervise current modeling projects. pipeline
- Make a significant contribution to the creation of art assets and education of Nikitova production team
- At least 5 years of experience in computer game industry, including at least 2 years as Lead Artist
- Experience in modeling, texturing, rigging and other 3d techniques used in computer game industry
- Familiarity with Maya software
- Experience in team management
- Experience in writing technical documentation for computer game industry
- Experience in work review
- Communicable, positive-minded, self-motivated, and proactive
- Experience as an Lead Outsourcing Artist
- Art Degree/similar qualification
- Office setting. Redwood City, CA
- Full time work
- Readiness for business trips
- Salary is negotiable depending upon performance at interview
Games Producer
NIKITOVA, a global US company with game production studios in Ukraine, is an established key development partner with many first-rate US publishers and developers. Position is open at Nikitova Kiev studio, Ukriane.
Job description:
- Work with designers, licensors and publishers to understand and guide game content
- Define schedules and milestones in collaboration with the team and publisher
- Manage production, ensuring all quality objectives and delivery dates are executed
- Liaise with the publisher, license holders, external QA, translation houses, consultants, platform holders and all third parties involved in the development process
- Ensure tasks are best assigned to team members according to their individual skills and experience as well as to the pipeline flow to achieve the most effective use of resources.
- Ensure the team is using and updating the most appropriate tools and techniques
- Communicate project perspectives and requirements throughout the team, both to the top and the bottom of the company, in order to facilitate clearly shared team objectives.
- Coaching, mentoring and training, strong effective team building and management
- Work experience in games production in different positions for at least 3 years
- 2 or more shipped games titles (or 1 games and 1 film/tv program) in last 5 years
- Excellent knowledge of game production methodologies, pipelines and technical requirements.
- Experience developing and maintaining schedules and budgets
- Able to balance production considerations of quality and creativity with resource, time and cost in decision-making
- Excellent project management and organizational skills.
- Strong interest and experience in work with international markets and representatives of different cultures
- Strong negotiation, mediation and conflict resolution skills
- Effective communication skills across all levels of an organization
- Fluent in English and Russian
- Higher education
- Office setting - Kiev, Ukraine
- Full Time work
- Reporting VP of Production of the Company
- Readiness for business trips
- Salary range: dependent upon performance at interview
Contact Info:
Visit: http://www.nikitova.com
E-mail: hr@nikitova.com