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Art at Night School Studio

Our artists are the architects of immersive worlds, bringing our interactive stories to life. We create world-class narrative games where the visual experience is as compelling as the story. Each game boasts a unique art style that enhances its design and narrative, making every project a new adventure.

About the Job

We’re looking for an experienced, full-time Lead Artist to guide the art team toward a compelling and clear art direction for one of our game titles. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the team toward artistic excellence in collaboration with the game director and project leadership. You will both oversee project planning, resourcing and art execution with the support of the studio art director and a team of artists.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the game director, studio art director, and art team to drive and define the vision for the game. Responsible for championing the vision for art throughout development.

• Define and communicate needs, resourcing, priorities, and process to achieve a high-quality bar for art on an in-development game. Advocate for what the art team needs to be successful.

• Creates guiding pieces of art, documentation, and other resources to drive a cohesive and clear vision for the game’s art direction.

• Collaborate with the producers and game director to create and deliver high-level plans for discipline sprints, milestones, and phases.

• Delivers timely and accurate feedback to individual contributors on the project, working through the art team and other collaborators to execute the creative vision.

• Collaborate with external vendors, freelancers, and co-dev partners.

• Provides regular updates to managers and project/studio leadership to inform feedback to teammates.

• Represent art in meetings/presentations with partners with a high level of clarity and expertise.

• Provides mentorship and coaching to members of the art team, leading them both toward project success and individual skill improvement. Shares feedback and insights regularly with the studio art director and art manager.

Skills and Abilities:

• 10 years of experience crafting video game art, with 3 years as a Lead Artist or Art Director.

• Deftly navigates and leads through the uncertainty of game development and creative discovery.

• Extensive experience in illustration and/or 3d art with the proven ability to develop a unique and cohesive visual style in collaboration with others.

• Proven ability to visually solve problems in collaboration with the broader game team, including other artists, engineering leads, and design leads.

• Excellent written and verbal communication. Comfortable interacting with and presenting to all levels of the company.

• Excellent attention to detail and a strong desire to iterate and improve on processes.

• Demonstrated fundamentals of leadership, including clear and proactive communication, meeting moderation, and oversight of large cross-disciplinary initiatives.

• Ability to manage multiple competing tasks and be self-directed to meet deadlines in a quickly evolving environment with little to no supervision.

• Positive attitude and ability to receive and provide objective and constructive feedback.

• Ability to coach, manage, mitigate, and prioritize through stressful situations for you and your team.

• A strategic thinker with the ability to identify risks, opportunities, and innovations.

Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $120,000-250,000.

Responsibilities include:

• Serve as a contact for below-the-line legal matters arising during development, pre-production, production, post-production, and launch.

• Ability to structure, draft, and negotiate below-the-line production agreements with moderate oversight, ensuring alignment with Netflix and industry standard and deal contexts (e.g., physical production department head agreements; casting director agreements; line producer agreements; short term production services agreements; vendor/rental agreements; equipment rental agreements; vehicle rental agreements; aviation, charter & drone rental agreements; watercraft agreements; location agreements; production office space/stage/facilities lease agreements; post-production agreements and visual effects agreements).

• During negotiations, clearly and succinctly communicate solutions to internal production and business partners as well as external producers and production personnel (e.g. Line Producer/UPM, Production Office Coordinator, Location Manager).

• Efficiently resolve issues without causing delays, adapting to the fast-paced nature of production legal work.

• Establish and maintain strong internal relationships with cross functional partners including Production Management, Post Production, VFX, Business Affairs, Labor, Finance, Health and Safety, Tax, Real Estate, Risk Management teams.

• Exercise sound judgment and curiosity regarding matters of first impression or complex issues.

Requirements:

The successful candidate will have an undergraduate degree (JD or Paralegal certification accepted, but not required) and at least 2 years of proven experience in a similar business/legal affairs role in the film or television industry. This candidate must also be able to work proactively and reliably on multiple projects under tight timeframes in a fast-paced production environment being able to quickly assess risk and exercise strong judgment in the face of ambiguity.

The successful candidate will also possess the following:

• Demonstrated leadership capabilities and a solutions-driven mindset.

• The ability to organize, clarify, and communicate complex ideas quickly, succinctly and accurately.

• Confidence in counseling business partners and making decisions that have legal & business impacts.

• The ability to remain flexible and respond positively to changes.

• Tech-savvy individual, including proficiency with Google Suite and cloud-based document and database systems.

• Ability to flourish in our unique ​​company culture, reflecting our values and leadership expectations.

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $70,000 - $350,000.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of overall patent prosecution experience, with at least 4+ years of in-house experience.

• Admission to the USPTO Bar and membership in good standing in at least one State Bar.

• Experience in strategically building patent portfolios, counseling engineers, harvesting innovations, and collaborating with outside counsel to prosecute patents.

• Curiosity and excitement to figure out how technology works.

• Highly value being part of a diverse and inclusive team.

• Creative problem-solving skills.

• Ability to embrace ambiguity and demonstrate flexibility.

• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top-of-market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $400,000-630,000.