Flash Artist

Grab is looking for awesome Flash Artists to become part of our talented game development team! Our Flash Artists work within teams of artists, engineers and game designers - creating art assets that drive the visual identity and user interface of the game - to build viral, fun, high quality social games. This Flash Artist will create final in-game artwork and placeholder artwork as needed by Engineering. This position will also work with web and marketing teams to create game-related artwork. The Flash Artist will spend most of their time designing and implementing 2D objects for the games, but should flexible enough to handle any art, animation, icons, advertising, web ready art, etc.

Responsibilities

  • Build smart, well-designed assets, interfaces and animations for our game that look great and are built efficiently
  • Excellent design skills, including the effective use of color, form, lighting and composition
  • Quick sketching and storyboarding
  • Ability to communicate with cross-functional teams visually, and to identify and define visual design issues and solutions
  • Build rapid prototypes for testing
  • Re-create optimized assets in vector from Photoshop files
  • Thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, team-based environment

Required Knowledge, Skills and Experience

  • B.S. in Design, Multimedia or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years of design / animation experience
  • Demonstrable expertise in illustration, animation, graphic design – with versatility, including: backgrounds, characters and UI elements
  • Strong communication, time management and ability to assist other team members in problem solving
  • Ability to follow through and see projects to completion, working independently and as a team
  • Fluent in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash)
  • Excellent Photoshop skills (CS3-5) compositing, texture painting, tiling, retouch, filtering, scripting
  • Excellent Flash skills including creating optimized movies, buttons, and animation
  • Passion for video games, virtual worlds and social networking
  • Experience in video game a plus, shipped titles and experience in social / mobile / web video games a major plus
  • PLUS: Expertise in Flash Development: Actionscript 2 and 3, object-oriented programming, CPU/Memory optimization, JavaScript/Flash bridging, Cross-browser compatibility

Grab Benefits

GRAB offers competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, and excellent growth opportunities. Our benefits are designed to strengthen our organization by supporting employees' ability to balance work, personal and family life. Through GRAB's exceptional company culture and outstanding benefits, employees have the opportunity to share in the Company's success and have more peace-of-mind and enjoyment in daily life.

  • Competitive salary
  • Bonuses
  • Employee Share Interest
  • Health care coverage
  • Dental coverage
  • Employee Referral Program
  • Paid holidays
  • Paid vacations
  • Weekly Catered Lunches
  • Team member events
  • Office snacks
  • and Video Games