Art Director - 6 months fixed term
On-siteWellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand
Job Summary
Deliver high-quality solutions to conceptual, illustrative, render, and design challenges by developing visual direction through concept art, mood boards, and style guides. Collaborate with creative directors, designers, writers, and fabrication teams to guide the design of environments, characters, props, lighting, and interactive elements, ensuring narrative and aesthetic consistency. Oversee visual deliverables from concept through final execution, presenting creative rationale to stakeholders and clients. Mentor artists and designers to foster an innovative culture. This 6-month fixed term role is based in Miramar, Wellington, with applications closing July 30, 2026.
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience in art direction, production design, or immersive experience design
- Proven experience delivering large-scale immersive, experiential, themed entertainment, film, game, or exhibition projects
- Exceptional visual storytelling skills with a strong portfolio demonstrating world-building and environment design
- Experience collaborating across multidisciplinary teams, including digital, physical, technical and production departments
- Proficiency in industry-standard design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Blender, Cinema 4D, Unreal Engine, Revit, AutoCAD or equivalent
- Strong understanding of spatial design, lighting, materials, fabrication, and interactive media
- Familiarity with cinematic storytelling, VFX pipelines and immersive narrative design
- Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects
- The ability to manage multiple projects while maintaining a high level of creative excellence
- Professional proficiency both English and Mandarin
- This role is fixed term, for 6 months, based in Miramar, Wellington
- The successful candidate will be required to undergo a Ministry of Justice check
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