Position: Lead 2D artist
Company: Nordcurrent Odessa
Category: Artist
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

Required skills:
- Leading experience 2+ years in game-industry on positions like Lead 2D Artist / Lead Artist / Art Manager or other relevant;
- Team management experience;
- Understanding the principles of developing graphics for mobile, browser games (2D);
- Ability to work in a “casual” style, understanding mobile games market;
- Deep proficiency in graphic tools, good artistic taste;
- A high-quality portfolio;
- Languages: Ukrainian, English (Upper-Intermediate and higher);

Will be a plus:
- Art education;

What do we offer:
- Comfortable office in Warsaw;
- An exciting environment to work creatively;
- Employment contract or B2B;\
- Possibility to work in a global product company with talented people
- Corporate celebrations, team buildings, and fun activities
- Free fruits, snacks and coffee in the office.  

Responsibilities:
- Creating and implementing all the visual aspects of the game: art style, characters, environments, etc;
- Leading the art team of the assigned project (task assignment, strategic approach in feedbacks, motivation & mentoring of team-members);
- Art content management: planning, production & delivery;
- Quality control (art content review, pipelines updating, guides & tutorials creation);
- Close interaction with the project team (game design and development department);

Who we are:
Nordcurrent is a developer and publisher of casual games for smartphones, tablets and PC/Mac, established in 2002 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Headquartered in Lithuania, Nordcurrent has four development studios in Vilnius, Odesa and Dnipro (Ukraine), Warsaw (Poland).

During the last 20 years, Nordcurrent has developed more than 50 games for various platforms. The studio’s biggest hit so far is Cooking Fever — a time-management game where players can cook meals and desserts from all over the world. The game has almost 400 million downloads and 15 million monthly active users.

Other recent Nordcurrent games include the multiplayer mobile shooter Sniper Arena and the interactive crime novel Murder in the Alps, time-management game in the sky — Airplane Chefs, game for setting fashion trends — Pocket Styler. And newest hit where the health is wealth — Happy Clinic game! Currently, the company has more than a dozen new titles in development.