Art Director

Values Value is a recruiting company with expertise in game development and is currently looking for an experienced Art Director for the world's first conversational AI tutor for children. This gamification mobile app lets children practice spoken English by conversing with a virtual AI-powered cartoon character. With its engaging virtual character, speech technology, and adaptive learning, this product is making speaking practice affordable for 500 million children around the globe. It is the second largest kid’s language app globally, which is featured in 50+ countries on the App Store and Google Play every week. 

As a new Art Director you will assemble a team and organize the work to create a style that is suitable for children in the broad age range of 4 to 12 years old. Find and refine a unique art style for the game world, bringing it to the level of the top mobile games for kids, making it distinctive and worthy of becoming a strong IP and a part of global pop culture by 2026.

What are you working on?

• Genres: You will be working on an educational game product with an unconventional approach to learning and innovative mechanics for voice-based interactive games.

• Platforms: mobile, iOS, Android

For which tasks (responsibilities)?

• Find and refine app's art style by 2026 to make it:

– Look and Feel at the quality level of the top mobile games

– Uniquely, stands out from other products 

– Support the creation of the product's IP

– Support technical requirements by working with our engineering team.

• Using this style helps the game designer and developers to create a metagame and a rich gameworld of the product and multiple fun and educational mini-games as part of this world.

• Build the art team ground-up. Or, if you find it more efficient, organize work with external contractors. 

• Help our Creative Producer and Social Media Marketers refine the art style of video content for YouTube channels and other media. 

• Support our Marketing team’s Brand-building efforts and help make communications consistent.  

What kind of professional are we looking for?

• Art leadership experience in mobile or console games: Understanding of both art and technical aspects of the craft. Hands-on experience in designing, delivering, and perfecting live and successful mobile or console games/mobile apps with thousands of players. 

• Experience with Children: Designed games for children under 12 professionally, or at least has own children 3-10 years old.  

• Creative/innovative: Has the ability and finds joy in creating new innovative designs rather than copying and reskining existing ones. Ideally, the candidate prefers to innovate rather than copy.

• Appreciates constraints. Seeks to understand the limiting factors and work with them, including technical and financial constraints as well as the brand’s legacy. 

• User/Player-centric approach: Has the ability and strive to understand players' needs and satisfy them rather than realize the candidate’s own creative ambitions. Actively seeks for players’ feedback. 

• Efficiency and startup mindset: Achieves success with minimal resources. Prototypes fast, ships MVPs. Fails fast and moves on. 

• Proactivity: Takes initiative, proposes solutions, and acts without hesitation. Does not wait for detailed instructions or specifications to follow. 

• Getting things done: Follows through on commitments. Ships products. Makes sure a problem is solved completely. She does not go home until she’s proud. 

• High Standards and ambitions: Strive to be the best, ship the world’s top product, work with A-players, and learn from the best. 

• Teamwork: Values and organizes collaboration. Actively seeks feedback from peers and provides support to them if needed. Hears other stakeholders.

What are the conditions and bonuses?

Why do we enjoy working here?

• Unique product: A first-of-its-kind conversational AI tutor for children. Virtual tutors are an emerging technology that leverages AI-powered virtual agents and adaptive learning systems to teach independently or in collaboration with human teachers. Currently, this app helps children learn to speak English by conversing with a cartoonish AI-powered character in a mobile app, much like they would with a human tutor over Zoom.

• Successful product: The second-largest kids' language app globally, it has reached №1 in the Kids and Education categories in Latin America, Europe, and MENA. Every week our product is featured in 50+ countries on the App Store and Google Play.

• Mission-driven project: The app aims to help not only children who want to learn a language but also those for whom English is their native language. It also focuses on working with children with speech development delays.

• High-level position: Art Director will report directly to the CEO.

• Team building opportunity: The chance to assemble a team according to the project's needs.

• Small team with high capital efficiency: Focused on the company’s product, business, and mission. There are no unnecessary layers of decision-making. Everything you create quickly goes into production.

• Openness: The team works collaboratively and shares everything. At All Hands meetings, all product and financial metrics are openly discussed.

• Contribution and growth: A small team means a large individual contribution.

• Agile startup environment: Stay lean and efficient, prototype fast and affordably, and test everything possible before investing significant resources in full-scale development.

• Remote work or relocation support to Europe

• Flexible schedule

• Paid sick leave and vacation days

• Stock Options available