Marketing Artist - Lockwood Publishing
Lockwood Publishing is the creator of the hugely successful mobile virtual world called Avakin Life. Launched in December 2013 Avakin Life has to date achieved over 22 million downloads across Google Play, iOS, and Amazon. It has also ranked in the top 300 grossing apps in the US in the Apple Appstore.
Job Description
Lockwood Publishing is looking for a highly creative marketing artist to help us drive both external and in-game marketing campaigns. Weekly content releases have increased in-game content to over 8000 virtual items and 60+ environments, leading to a significant increase in the number of marketing materials required. Your role is to be responsible for the creation and production of high-quality in-game marketing assets for our premiums virtual items and environments. Alongside this, you will have the opportunity to work on marketing materials to be used outside of the game.
Please note, all applicants must have full eligibility to work in the UK to be considered for this opportunity.
Skills & Requirements
Responsibilities:
- Create high impact marketing assets for online stores and in-game media feeds using Photoshop, as well as 3D packages such as Maya, 3D Studio Max, Modo, Lightwave or Cinema3D.
- Gameplay still and video capturing — Work with the development team to capture content based on briefs supplied by the ASO team.
- Video Editing and composition — Editing of video footage and creating promotional videos and stings
- Graphic Design — Support artist team to create 2D/3D assets for marketing and store submission
- Ensure quality and consistency of production ready assets
- Work closely with other LKWD Artists, producing high-quality art in an iterative process.
Qualifications:
- An excellent understanding of digital marketing practices.
- Strong aesthetic sense & graphic design skill.
- Good experience with Premiere, After Effects or similar.
- Good communication skills, working collaboratively in a professional environment, able to deal with feedback.
- Good 3D skills with 3DS Max, Maya, Modo or similar.
- Good understanding of lighting and composition.
- Extensive 2D skill set with photoshop or similar.
Desirable, but not essential skills & experience
- Experience in Unity.
- Experience in working with mobile app stores.
- Experience in working with creators/influencers.
- Knowledge of different languages.
This is a permanent position, and is located in our Nottingham studio.
Salary DOE+Benefits.
Nottingham Workplace:
Pleasant Nottingham City Centre offices located in the Antenna Media centre which is within 5 minutes’ walk of high street shops, pubs, restaurants and public amenities with great transport links.
Good night life and sports facilities including:
Nearby National Ice Arena, Water sports facility at Holme Pierrepont, Trent Bridge Cricket Ground and two Football Grounds – Notts County and Nottingham Forest as well as great night life and music scene.
How to Apply
This is a permanent position. Salary DOE+Benefits. An extremely competitive quarterly bonus scheme which puts a percentage of profits into the staff bonus pot. Applicants should send their CV and Covering Letter to jobs@lockwood-publishing.com quoting reference MktArtNov16 We do not have the resource to reply to all candidates. Thank you for your application if you take the time to apply and do not hear back from us. If your CV and application meets our requirements we will be in touch very soon. Many thanks for your interest.
About the Company
Lockwood Publishing is a leading cross platform developer producing entertainment software for the mobile and tablet market.
The company was founded in 2009 by Halli Bjornsson and Joel Kemp to focus on content production for the Sony PlayStation Home virtual environment on PlayStation3.
PlayStation Home grew its user base to over 20 million subscribers and Lockwood became one of the premier developers for this platform, delivering game tie-in environments, promotional environments, stand-alone games and virtual items for PlayStation Home.
During the lifetime of PlayStation Home Lockwood was voted best developer, by users on PlayStation@Home, for 6 consecutive years.
Since it’s creation. Lockwood Publishing has developed 8 original games on PlayStation, iOS, Google Play, Amazon and web with millions of fans playing every month and millions of virtual items sold.
The company is now fully focused on the Free to Play business model on the mobile and tablet platforms with Avakin Life.