Senior Game Artist

Note: This is a full-time role. Candidates must be eligible to work in the Netherlands and available to work from our The Hague office at least three days per week.

About us!

We are Lucky Kat, an award-winning mobile game studio with a mission to entertain the world by building innovative midcore and hybridcasual titles for all. By applying first principle thinking and being output-driven, we've been able to solve a variety of challenges and stay ahead of the curve in the ever fast-changing games industry. We are a passionate group of capital-G Gamers who are obsessed with delivering innovative and user-friendly games. Get to know us a bit more here on our team page.

Responsibilities

You catch us at an exciting time! We're deep in the iterative prototyping process for our next titles. As a Senior Game Artist you'll become an integral part of our team, helping to define the look and feel of our games and bringing those ideas to market-testable prototypes on a monthly schedule.

You'll combine strong hands-on art skills with visual leadership, working closely with developers, producers and artists to turn early ideas into clear, appealing and production-ready game experiences.

What you'll actually be doing:

• Defining and owning the visual direction of our games, from early concepts and mockups through to polished, playable prototypes.

• Turning loose game ideas into clear visual concepts quickly, finding the right art direction without overproducing during the prototyping stage.

• Planning and prioritising art production across multiple prototypes while balancing speed, quality and scope.

• Creating game-ready 2D and 3D assets across the production pipeline, including characters, environments, props, UI, animation and VFX where needed.

• Working hands-on to create and implement assets, set up scenes, materials, animations, lighting and visual effects.

• Collaborating closely with developers and producers to make sure art, gameplay and game feel work together.

• Giving clear direction and feedback to a small team of artists, maintaining visual consistency and helping the team deliver at a high quality.

• Helping us improve and refine our art pipeline and development process for what works best for the team.

Must haves

• First and foremost - A deep seated passion and curiosity for games!

• Strong professional experience as Senior Artist or Lead Artist, ideally within mobile games.

• Knowledge of factors that contribute to KPIs within a product such as Audience Split and Cost Per Install.

• A strong portfolio demonstrating stylised 2D and 3D game art and a solid understanding of visual design, lowpoly assets and stylised characters.

• Strong 3D generalist skills, with experience taking assets from concept through modelling, UVs, texturing, rigging and animation to final implementation.

• Strong understanding of composition, colour, shape language, readability and visual hierarchy. Candidate should be able to establish a visual direction and communicate it clearly through concepts, references and mockups.

• Comfortable using AI-assisted tools such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion or similar for rapid art exploration, ideation and visual development during the pre-production phase.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced prototyping environment where priorities and visual directions can change quickly. The ideal candidate should be comfortable working on multiple prototypes at the same time.

• Able to balance visual quality with production time, plan tasks and manage a small group of artists, with effective time management skills.

• A clear communicator who can pitch an idea, take feedback, give constructive art direction and work closely with developers and producers.

• Able to self-learn new skills and keep up to date with new tools, workflows and technologies.

• Fluent in English.

• Able to commute to our office in The Hague three days a week.

Nice to haves

• Technical art skills, including shaders, materials and lighting in Unity.

• Hands-on experience implementing game-ready assets in Unity.

• Strong animation skills and an understanding of how animation contributes to game feel and character.

• Experience with UI/UX design for mobile games.

• Experience creating VFX and other forms of visual polish.

• Experience with rapid prototyping, market testing and working with external mobile publishers.

Benefits

• An opportunity to build on the next exciting wave of gaming and entertainment, and make a real impact

• Opportunity to work with some of the largest mobile publishers in the world.

• Real ownership across a variety of projects, with the autonomy to run with them.

• Talented team members in a healthy, ambitious international environment.

• Room to grow within the company.