King Games

Craft:

Art

Job Description:

Do you want to work on one of the world’s biggest mobile games? We are looking for a dedicated Game Artist to join the art team in Candy Crush Saga!

Your role within our Kingdom

You will join our growing team and work on our next batch of exciting features! We work closely with other artists, producers, game designers and developers as part of an experienced team, where your contributions will help shape the future of Candy Crush Saga. As a member of the Candy team you’ll participate in a cross-location collaboration. We believe your communication and organization skills will help you to champion our partnership on features and information exchange among the teams.

Key Responsibilities: (hard skills)

• You have great concept art skills with a good eye for composition and color
• You are good at planning your own tasks to meet requirements and deadlines for delivery
• Capable or interest in learning how to produce simpler 3d models and basic rendering
• Understand the concept of animation and are able to create a simple rig and animate

Skills to create thrills (Soft skills)

• A creative person with a passion for games
• A skilled artist who delivers high quality artwork, with experience creating appealing characters and environments
• Ability to create polished and distinct gameplay assets
• Experienced in working with Adobe CS package, with good technical understanding
• Strong communication and organizational skills,
• Highly collaborative team-oriented work style
• Proactive in learning and developing your skills to the next level
• A portfolio demonstrating all aspects of your skill is required.

Tasty bonus skills

• Previous knowledge of working with a game engine
• Skills in 2D animation
• Previous experience from creating casual and/or mobile games
• Experience working in an agile project environment

About King

At King, we’re Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We’re the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren’t just crushing it with candies, we’re also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was recently acquired by Microsoft.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It’s our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is our mission – it’s the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let’s face it, who doesn’t love a bit of fun?

Kingsters are seriously playful: creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily. But our players aren’t the only ones that can level-up. We’re always looking for ways to champion each other and make what’s already great, even better.

So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful.

Applications need to be in English.

Discover King at careers.king.com