Art Manager

- Establish quality standards for Kokku's art teams. - Review and approve visual materials on bids by working with Art Directors before they go to our partners, ensuring they meet the required standards. - Maintain a positive, and optimistic attitude. Praise publicly, critique privately. - Work with your Head of Delivery to handle complaints or issues that can improve the team. - Act as a problem solver, constantly looking for ways to help the team. - Work with Marketing and BD to ensure we are able to constantly show off our work, both internally and externally. - Work with Art Leads to ensure our internal portfolio continues to grow in diversity and quality. - Stay updated with the latest trends in art styles, gaming technology, and tools. - Implement innovative strategies and tools to enhance visual quality and efficiency in production. - Drive production excellence initiatives, working closely with all producers, project managers, and art production services. - Have a clear understanding that Kokku is a Co-Dev and Full Dev service provider and that project budgets, resources, and scheduling are a priority. - Be the point of contact for Art on RFI/RFPs. - Help allocate resources to ensure a competitive but feasible bid. - Work with the Art Director to provide additional art where necessary to successfully win contracts. - Participate in client calls to defend the estimates provided if needed. - Oversee the growth, development and career paths for the Art Leads. - Guide each Art Lead with an individualized plan, objectives and timelines. - Identify courses, tools or tutorials that can help the Leads, or the entire Art Team improve. - Create video guides and tutorials to help with onboarding and overall team growth. - Regularly gather production data and project information and communicate this information using various channels (Confluence, Teams, Emails). - Create a regular cadence for reporting on the wins, losses, and improvement plans for each team. - Oversee the growth, development and career paths for Artists. - Guide each Artist with an individualized plan, objectives and timelines. - Identify courses, tools or tutorials that can help the entire team improve. - Conduct bi-annual Performance Assessments with the help of the Art Leads and Art Director. - Coordinate the Art department's hiring plan and support hiring and recruitment choices with the recruiting and producers/production teams. - Support Head of Delivery in defining the vision and strategy for creating tools to support our Art Department.