Senior Production Artist

Responsibilities

Educational Game Experience Design

• Translate educational curriculum and learning objectives into playable game mechanics and risk/reward systems
• Define the moment-to-moment feel, pacing, reward systems, and difficulty curves to keep students engaged without sacrificing educational rigor
• Contribute to playtesting by identifying usability friction, confusing feedback, and visual clarity issues for implementable design improvements
• Define engagement metrics, retention rates, and learning outcomes to evaluate the game's effectiveness after launch

Illustration

• Support simulation and episode production by creating production-ready visual assets for interactive training content, including characters, props, environments, UI elements, icons, and in-world objects
• Translate creative briefs, learning goals, and product requirements into clear visual concepts, storyboards, layouts, and production assets
• Partner with product managers, security researchers, writers, product designers, animators, and creative leads to shape experiences that balance fun, clarity, and instructional value
• Own asset workstreams from concept to handoff, keeping files organized, reusable, and easy for cross-functional teammates to implement
• Help establish and maintain visual systems, patterns, and documentation that create consistency across episodes, simulations, and future interactive formats
• Identify opportunities to improve production quality and team velocity through better asset planning, reusable templates, and ethical AI-assisted concepting workflows

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in game design or educational technology, interactive media, illustration, animation, or adjacent visual design roles, with a portfolio that shows shipped or production-ready work
• Experience creating art for online-based interactive games, simulations, e-learning, or other systems where visuals need to support user actions and state changes
• Strong illustration and asset-production skills in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, with the ability to create polished, scalable assets in an established style
• Ability to take loosely defined ideas and turn them into production-ready concepts, layouts, and asset libraries with minimal oversight
• A strong eye for visual consistency, readability, hierarchy, and environmental storytelling across characters, worlds, and interfaces
• Comfort working cross-functionally in a fast-moving, iterative environment and contributing thoughtful feedback that improves the final experience

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with storyboarding, scene planning, or pre-visualization for interactive or animated content
• Familiarity with game design principles such as feedback loops, player guidance, challenge framing, reward moments, and moment-to-moment visual clarity
• Experience with After Effects, motion workflows, or handoff to animation
• Experience using AI-assisted creative tools responsibly for early ideation, variation, or background development
• An online portfolio is required for this position

Compensation & Benefits

• Compensation Range: $110,000 to $120,000 base plus bonus and equity
• 100% remote work environment
• Generous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans
• 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution
• Life and Disability insurance plans
• Stock options for all full-time employees
• One-time $500 reimbursement for building/upgrading home office
• Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance
• $75 USD/month digital reimbursement
• Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth