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Creates high-quality 2D illustrations, concept art, feature logos, and event assets for mobile games. Follows established art direction and UI aesthetics, iterates rapidly on concepts, and prepares artwork for animation and visual effects. Coordinates organized asset delivery and documentation with technical artists, uses AI tools to accelerate production, and may incorporate 3D elements into 2D illustrations.

Lead hands-on software engineering for a large, revenue-critical PHP game server and associated administration tools. Responsibilities include improving legacy code, setting technical standards, making architectural and execution tradeoffs, writing production code, mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, designing tests, and collaborating with engineering leadership on roadmap decisions. The role may also influence PHP backend and jQuery/Vue.js frontend tooling, with bonus experience in observability, cloud platforms, and live-service games.

Lead and mentor art team on Unity technical workflows; optimize asset pipelines; create and integrate UI prefabs, animations, VFX, shaders, and atlases; package assets for LiveOps; document processes; collaborate with engineers and production to ensure performant, tested delivery for scheduled updates.

Lead Live Ops and monetization strategy for mobile/web games: plan, design, develop and operate in-game events, A/B tests and player communications to drive KPIs. Coordinate across art, design, dev, QA and production; segment players, innovate day-to-day activities, manage processes and long-term monetization and Live Ops calendars.

Lead portfolio-wide monetization strategy for US game titles, develop unified monetization philosophy and playbooks, enable game teams, champion analytics-driven decisions, oversee forecasting and A/B testing, mentor monetization talent, and represent monetization to senior leadership while partnering cross-functionally to balance revenue and player experience.