Senior Art Manager

Scopely is looking for a Senior Art Manager to join the Monopoly GO! team. 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 in the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily. Monopoly GO! is our newest casual game and a flagship franchise, enjoyed by millions worldwide. The team is based in Europe and the US and works daily to create captivating new experiences for our players. **Role Overview** We are looking for an experienced Art Manager to lead and support a team of artists. This role is primarily focused on people management, team development, performance, staffing, and creating a healthy and effective working environment for artists. The Art Manager will help artists grow their skills and careers, establish clear expectations, manage team capacity, and ensure the team is organized to support the broader creative goals of the studio. While the role will collaborate with production and development partners, its primary responsibility is the success, wellbeing, and development of the art team. **Responsibilities** - Lead, mentor, and support a team of artists across one or more disciplines. - Establish clear expectations, goals, and standards for individual and team performance. - Provide regular feedback, coaching, performance reviews, and career guidance. - Monitor team health, morale, workload, and engagement. - Identify risks related to burnout, capacity, motivation, or team dynamics and address them proactively. - Support hiring, interviewing, onboarding, role definition, and organizational planning. - Manage team structure, staffing needs, succession planning, and resource allocation. - Help ensure artists are assigned to work that matches their skills, experience, and development goals. - Facilitate communication across the art team and ensure important information is shared clearly. - Represent the needs, concerns, and achievements of the art team to leadership. - Partnering with Art Directors and craft leads to support quality, standards, and professional growth. - Encourage the adoption of improved tools, workflows, and AI-enabled processes that benefit artists and the broader organization. - Maintain clear documentation related to team structures, responsibilities, development plans, and management processes. **Qualifications** - Significant experience working in game development. - Proven experience managing, mentoring, or leading artists. - Strong understanding of people management, performance management, and career - development. - Excellent communication, listening, conflict-resolution, and organizational skills. - Ability to provide clear, constructive, and actionable feedback. - Experience supporting teams through organizational change and evolving priorities. - Strong judgment, empathy, discretion, and professionalism. - Ability to balance individual needs with broader team and organizational priorities. - Experience working with multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams. **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience managing artists in a mobile, casual, or live-service game environment. - Background in 2D, 3D, animation, VFX, UI, and/or technical art. - Experience with hiring and workforce planning - Familiarity with modern digital art tools, production workflows, and AI-assisted creative processes. **What Success Looks Like** Success in this role means building a healthy, motivated, and high-performing art team. The Art Manager enables artists to do their best work, supports their professional growth, creates clarity and stability, addresses team challenges early, and ensures the art organization has the right people, structure, and support to succeed. ### About Scopely Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play. Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Scopely Explore games businesses — Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come. Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good — creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play. Scopely has global operations and partners across four continents in more than a dozen countries worldwide. For more information, visit: . Notice to Candidates: Scopely will never request payment or financial information during the application or hiring process. Please apply only through our official [website](http://scopely.com) and verify that all Talent Partner communications come from an email address ending in @[](http://scopely.com). Should you have any questions or encounter any fraudulent requests/emails/websites, please immediately contact . 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