Senior Art Outsourcing Supervisor

Who We Are

Second Dinner is an award-winning independent game development studio that is here to make the most fun games in the world. Not super fun games. Not SUPER DUPER fun games. We mean the MOST fun games. In fact, our game MARVEL SNAP has earned multiple Mobile Game of the Year Awards (Game Awards, DICE), Best Strategy Game (IGN), and the Apple Design Award for Innovation!

Second Dinner is a remote-first studio, so while we are headquartered in Irvine, California, most of our team is fully remote across the United States. We want the most talented teammates wherever they call home. A diverse team with varied perspectives makes us a better company and will help us make better games. If you can bring something new to the table and expand our point of view, that's a huge upside.

Our Art Team

At Second Dinner, the art team drives the visual direction of our games and creates a cohesive and consistent experience. We strive to create the highest quality art and we’re always looking for ways to raise the bar! It’s our job as game artisans to create, refine, iterate, and help make our games look amazing! We partner with every part of the studio: design, engineering, production, data, product management, marketing, and sound to make the most fun and visually engaging experiences possible for our players!

Your Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a talented, motivated Senior Art Outsourcing Supervisor to drive outsource content for Marvel Snap! This role will report to the Senior Art Director and partner closely with the internal development team of engineers, designers, technical artists to build out our in-game content. You will be responsible for overseeing the management and coordination of art outsourcing activities, ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality assets that meet our artistic and technical standards. Your experience in game development and developing and managing an artist pipeline will help you work effectively across the team. If you have incredible organizational skills, a keen eye for detail, a strong understanding of art and design principles, and above all are passionate about providing quality gaming experiences for players, we want to hear from you! 

What You’ll Do:

• Manage the end-to-end art outsourcing process, including sourcing, contract/pricing negotiations, budgeting, onboarding, and maintaining communication with external art studios and individual artists

• Manage communications and provide feedback to artists and help maintain a strong creative relationship between external and internal art teams

• Generate detailed documentation, visual reference, and examples of art asset production, procedures, and requirements to support the external vendors

• Own the quality control over all incoming art assets, providing detailed feedback and approvals in order to deliver quality assets to the development team

• Work closely with the art director and production team to determine outsourcing needs, pipelines, budgets and costs for art assets

• Coordinate with external vendors to schedule and track incoming assets

• Create new art pipelines from scratch as well identify, onboard, and manage new artists, including:

  • Sharing of requirements

  • Determining what pieces artists should work on

  • Discovering new art styles

  • Negotiating contracts

  • Providing feedback

  • File management

What You’ll Need:

• Experience as an Art Outsource Manager or a similar role within the gaming industry, ideally at least one shipped AAA project.

• Clear and concise communications, leadership, and people skills.

• In-depth understanding of the game development process and the ability to align art outsourcing activities with internal project milestones and deadlines.

• Ability to manage multiple art pipelines across multiple delivery dates

• A creative eye for detail and a deep appreciation for visual aesthetics, ensuring the delivery of assets that align with our artistic vis