Outsourcing Artist

Paradox Interactive
Malmö, Sweden
Job type: Permanent

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Job Description

Do you want to make a big difference at a small studio? Paradox is on an ambitious journey to explore and expand on Grand Strategy Games, a genre we invented and want to take to new heights. To do this, we are looking for an outsourcing artist at Paradox Thalassic to help make sure our games live up to their vast potential.

About the role

The Outsourcing Artist is a new role at the Paradox Thalassic studio in close collaboration with PDS Red. You will be responsible for building and supporting our capacity to do art outsourcing by analysing the studio art department needs, processes and pipelines. You will help us find the best partners, build relationships as well as establish new pipelines and evaluate art content being delivered to meet the needs of our growing organisation. Having an art background is key as we also intend for this role to be actively involved in tweaking and implementing assets that get delivered when needed.

In this role you will work closely with multiple internal stakeholders; Your main points of contact will be the Art Directors, Game Directors and Producers. 

Responsibilities

  • Vet and evaluate new and existing outsourcing partners
  • Facilitate good collaboration and feedback between game team, producers and outsourcing partners
  • Develop processes for briefs, documentation, concept art, reviews, feedback, approval and implementation of delivered assets
  • Proactively identify and resolve issues in the outsourcing pipelines
  • See the whole pipeline through from order of outsourced assets to final tweaking and implementation in the game

Skills & Requirements

Qualifications

  • Art generalist background from the games industry
  • Technical savviness to be able to identify and remedy pipeline issues for implemented content
  • Fluency in English both written and spoken
  • Relevant higher education

Bonus points for...

  • Experience in similar roles
  • Experience working with 3D sculpting characters 
  • Passion for video games

Practical information

Location: Malmö

Reports To: Studio Manager Thalassic

Additional Information

  • Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

About the Company

Paradox Interactive is a leading global publisher of strategy games for PC. The world-renowned strategy catalog stretches back to 1999, and the company holds a particularly strong presence in the United States and Europe. The publisher’s steadily-growing portfolio includes firmly established PC franchises such as the critically acclaimed Europa Universalis, Cities: Skylines, Crusader Kings, Magicka and the Hearts of Iron series created by Paradox Development Studio and a network of partner studios. If you're interested in what IPs we work with, you can browse them here.

Our games are played by millions of players each month. Over the years, we have released more than a hundred games and expansions and we currently have several active IPs that have been developed both internally and by third-party studios across the world.  Paradox has been listed as a top mid-size publisher globally by Metacritic for several years and each year we have several games on the top 100 best-selling games on Steam. We currently have offices in Sweden, The Netherlands, and USA. 


Working here

Paradox has seen a lot of growth over the recent years, and we see no signs of that slowing down. We are a mixed bunch, with people from over 30 different countries, with one thing bringing us all together - a passion for games. 

Working at Paradox entails a lot of freedom, responsibility, and the possibility to have a real impact. We try to keep our project teams relatively small, as we believe that the best decisions are made on the floor, and to stay away from long decision-chains.