Senior Art Director

Shape the Visual Soul of Taliara’s Rise

At Orbital Ignition Interactive, we're building Taliara’s Rise—a stylized, dice-driven mobile game where factions clash, worlds rebuild, and every roll rewrites fate. Our visuals? Think bold shapes, magical contrast, and a world that feels alive in every pixel. Now, we need a visionary to lead the charge.

🚨 Heads-up: This is an unpaid role until funding. But if you're here to help shape a world-class IP, not just collect credits—you’ve just found your realm.

As Art Director, you’ll define and maintain the stylized visual language of Taliara’s Rise. You’ll guide concept, character, environment, UI, and VFX artists toward one cohesive goal: building a world as iconic as its gameplay.

You’re not just a style guide machine—you’re a worldbuilder, a taste-maker, and a source of artistic firepower. From floating dice realms to mystical base-building maps, you’ll craft a universe players want to live in (and screenshot endlessly).

• Establishing and evolving the game’s visual identity across all assets and factions
• Leading our art team (2D, 3D, animation, VFX, UI) with clear direction and high creative standards
• Reviewing and giving actionable feedback on all major art deliveries
• Collaborating with the creative director (that’s our founder 👀) and design leads to unify lore, gameplay, and visual storytelling
• Creating style guides, mood boards, and pipelines to ensure visual consistency
• Making decisions that balance AAA visual fidelity with mobile performance and readability

• A strong visual leader who can inspire, critique, and elevate creative work
• Deeply familiar with stylized art styles (Clash Royale, League of Legends splash, Sky: CotL, etc.)
• Experienced in mobile game production, ideally free-to-play or collectible-focused games
• Passionate about building new IPs, not just following templates
• Skilled in cross-functional collaboration—able to speak both “design” and “dev”
• Organized enough to build processes, but flexible enough to break them for greatness

• Have built or led art teams on a shipped mobile or indie-AAA game
• Can paint/illustrate and also understand 3D modeling workflows
• Have UI/UX insight or motion design chops
• Are comfortable working across tools like Figma, Photoshop, Blender, Unity, or Spine
• Have a soft spot for fantasy, dice, or tabletop RPG aesthetics

• Priority placement as paid Lead or Director once we close our funding round
• Creative control on an IP with global ambitions and AAA energy
• Portfolio-defining work that actually ships
• A leadership role in a growing studio with big dreams and zero bureaucracy

Taliara’s Rise is more than a game—it’s a world. If you’re ready to bring that world to life and lead a squad of artists across stylized battlefields, mystic ruins, and enchanted economies—we want you at the helm.