Art Director
Company: Paramount
Location: New York
Posted on: June 25, 2022
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Job Description:
Noggin is a leading learning service for families with
preschoolers. We deliver streaming and interactive learning content
that helps young kids develop skills, knowledge and passions
through play with the characters they love. We also help parents
help their kids thrive. A direct-to-consumer offering available on
10+ platforms, Noggin reaches families in the domestic market
through standalone mobile apps, connected TV apps, and add-on
channels. We are forming a team of highly motivated individuals who
are eager to work in a start-up-like environment within a large
media company. We need innovators and self-starters who are
passionate about playful learning and comfortable working in a
fast-paced, creative-led organization.**Overview:**The Art Director
will be responsible for managing an internal team of visual
designers crafting original learning content for young children
ages 2-6, including streaming video, mobile games, and other
interactive experiences. They will oversee designs created by
external vendor partners. They will also act as a cross
departmental creative leader in the development of art for
preschool focused entertainment, educational videos, interactive
animations, and visual design in the Noggin App and across
platforms.**Responsibilities:**+ Collaborate as a creative leader
with the Creative Director, CG Director, Producers, and other
department directors to craft effective visuals used in educational
narratives for the preschool audience of kids 2-6 years old.+
Establish efficient practices for design in productions for both
interactive mobile gaming and short form preschool animation and
motion graphics.+ Review and approve design work within their team
as well as present work-in-progress designs to cross disciplinary
teams.+ Conduct critical analysis of Noggins content design and
review with Creative Director, Producers, and teams of designers.+
Communicate effectively with both 3D and 2D animators and
understand animations impact on gaming and interactive production.+
Managing the schedule, budget, and creative output of visual
designers art development & production art used in original
animated and interactive content.+ Assigning direct reports to
projects and schedules as well as collaborating with external
vendors to ensure Noggins design standards and project deliverables
are met.+ Lead all aspects of art hiring, development and
resourcing both on internal teams and in partnership with external
vendors.+ Coordinate Noggins content art production in
collaboration with team leads so that the work is formatted for
various animation production processes.+ Oversee the organization
and archiving of the design teams source files on a shared server
and cloud-based file sharing system.+ Have enthusiasm for kids
storytelling and early childhood education.+ Attend production
check-ins & creative weeklies.+ Define the visual style of Noggin
originals through the establishment of new style guides and look
development for 3D and 2D animated characters, environments, props,
logos, graphic design, key art, tile art, and interactive elements
such as navigational buttons, menus, loading screens, and reward
systems.+ Formulate concepts and participate in brainstorms based
on creative briefs.+ Help translate learning goals into visuals for
mobile gaming interactive interfaces used in nonlinear
storytelling.**Basic Qualifications:**+ Experience working with 3D
Animation Directors, CG modeling and Lighting Artists and
understand the techniques and production pipelines associated with
both short form animation and interactive mobile gaming.+ 4 year
degree in computer arts, graphic design, production design, game
design or animation production.+ 10+ years working as a design or
motion graphics artist on movies, video or mobile games,
commercials, promotional content, at a network, brand, studio or
agency.+ Program Knowledge: Adobe Suite, Photoshop, Illustrator,
Acrobat. Layout, illustration, character design, environmental
design, props, gaming menu and system design, along with a great
sense of color, composition, graphic design and a knowledge of
animation techniques and pipelines.**Additional Qualifications:**+
Successful candidates will be organized, detailed, and able to
refine work to a high degree of polish, as well as encourage their
design reports to do the same.+ Communicate creative concepts
through verbal, written, and artistic means.+ Candidates should
have a strong eye for composition, color theory, graphic design,
environment, prop and character design.+ Understanding of childrens
media and interest in working in early learning, as well as short
form storytelling.+ Ability to work on-site at our NY offices.+
Excellent communication skills and a professional demeanor.+ Be
able to adjust and be open to innovation and change.+ Ability to
complete tasks on tight deadlines.+ Experience in Designing
Production art for animation.+ Ability to give direction and
implement feedback from multiple collaborators.+ Ability to mentor
junior and mid-level designers and provide feedback on most
effective practices.+ Strong verbal and written communication
skills in English.+ Strong work ethic and self-motivation!+ Passion
for design and animation!Paramount is an equal opportunity employer
(EOE) including disability/vet.At Paramount, the spirit of
inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on-screen and off. From
the programming and movies we create to employee benefits/programs
and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that
opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to
and for the benefit of all. Paramount is proud to be an equal
opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are
committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race,
color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin,
sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status,
disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran
status.If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a
disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you
are unable or limited in your ability to use or access.
https://www.paramount.com/careers as a result of your disability.
You can request reasonable accommodations by calling 212.846.5500
or by sending an email to viacomaccommodations@viacom.com. Only
messages left for this purpose will be returned.Paramount believes
in creating environments that allow our primary focus to remain on
providing entertainment, education and information to our millions
of viewers around the world. As part of this commitment to health
and safety, Paramount requires COVID-19 vaccines for current U.S.
employees, including all newly hired employees, subject to
applicable law. Union employees are subject to the agreement
reached between the Company and the applicable Union.
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