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Associate Art Director
to join our Monopoly GO! team in our Barcelona Hub on a hybrid basis!
At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.
MONOPOLY GO! is a global phenomenon and the biggest mobile game launch in history, captivating millions of players worldwide.
This role owns the end-to-end art direction, ensuring a cohesive, high-quality, and player‑centric visual experience across a wide range of features—from UI-driven systems to content‑heavy initiatives. You will play a key role not only in defining visual direction, but in shaping how the team thinks: challenging assumptions, pushing for clarity, and helping teams understand the why behind creative decisions. This is a highly collaborative and hands‑on leadership role that requires strong communication, creative conviction, and the ability to operate across different problem spaces.
What You Will Do:
Own and drive the Art Direction across different teams, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment with the game vision
Set clear, actionable creative direction across features and initiatives, working across UI, 2D, 3D, Animation, and VFX
Lead creative thinking, facilitating brainstorms and engaging the team to define strong, thoughtful creative solutions—not just execute on briefs
Challenge and elevate the work, bringing clarity to ambiguous problems and helping teams understand the why behind decisions
Act as a true creative partner to Product, UX, Engineering, and Production—shaping solutions, not just delivering assets
Build and lead a high‑performing team, including performance reviews, goal setting, and ongoing development of the Barcelona‑based art teams
Drive the adoption of AI in art workflows, identifying opportunities and setting clear expectations for the team to leverage tools such as Scenario, Nano Banana, and other emerging technologies to improve speed, exploration, and quality
Establish a strong art culture that maximizes team potential, encourages ownership, and promotes proactive cross‑discipline collaboration
Ensure team health, supporting morale, identifying training needs, and aligning resourcing with priorities
Partner closely with Art Production to build efficient, scalable, and high‑quality art pipelines and processes
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Contribute to product and studio‑level planning, bringing a strong creative perspective to strategic decisions
What We’re Looking For:
Proven experience as an Art Director or Associate Art Director on a live game
Strong background in UI/UX‑driven environments, with the ability to guide visual decisions in UI‑heavy systems
Experience leading multi‑disciplinary teams (UI, 2D, 3D, Animation, VFX)
Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and align cross‑functional teams
Ability to challenge ideas constructively, bringing clarity, direction, and creative conviction
Strong artistic judgment across composition, color, style, and visual storytelling
Deep understanding of how art supports gameplay, UX, and player experience
Experience in live operations environments, ideally within mobile or social games
Demonstrated ability to build team culture and develop talent
Experience working with or driving AI‑supported creative workflows
Bonus Points:
Experience working with established IPs
Fluent in Spanish
Employment at Scopely is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. Scopely does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
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