Art Director

The role

We're looking for an Art Director who is ready to set the visual direction and build a new universe. This is primarily a creative and conceptual role, where you'll spend most of your time visually exploring ideas to guide the development team.

If you've been waiting for the opportunity to visualize a new IP from the ground up this your chance.

In this role you will :

• Define the overall art direction and visual identity for a new, unannounced IP, in collaboration with our creative and design leads.
• Build out an art bible focused on story telling, characters, environments, factions, mood, and high-level visual language.
• Concept and iterate on character, vehicles and weapons, pushing design and silhouette to create a signature look the project can be known for.
• Quickly produce visual guidance for artists through sketches, paint overs and concept art.
• Help shape the worldbuilding as the foundation for visual choices.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, balancing their high-level pillars with your own creative authorship.

What we're looking for :

• Proven experience as an Art Director, Lead Concept Artist, or Senior Concept Artist, with strong character and environment fundamentals.
• A portfolio showing strong design work in the sci-fi or futuristic genres.
• Experience in world building or visualizing new IP from scratch.
• Experience in industrial design or designing exosuits, robots, vehicles and weapons is a plus.
• Working knowledge of Unreal Engine 5 and how art direction translates into a real-time pipeline is a strong plus.
• Experience in collaborating closely with stakeholders, ensuring alignment on goals, timelines, and deliverables while fostering strong, transparent relationships.

About Behaviour Interactive

Behaviour Interactive is the largest Canadian gaming studio, with more than 1,300 employees worldwide. Behaviour is best known for its flagship franchise, the multiplayer survival horror game Dead by Daylight™, which has entertained more than 60 million players across multiple platforms. The studio is currently expanding its portfolio of original IP with multiple projects. Behaviour has also established itself as one of the world’s leading providers of external development services. The company has partnered with many of the gaming industry’s leaders, including Microsoft, Sony, EA, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Take-Two, among many others. Over more than 30 years, Behaviour has developed an unparalleled, award-winning culture. The company was named one of the Best Places to Work in Canada by GamesIndustry.biz, and has been recognized with Deloitte Canada’s Enterprise Fast 15 and Best Managed Company awards. Headquartered in Montreal, Behaviour has expanded its global presence with studios in Toronto (Behaviour Toronto), Seattle (Midwinter Entertainment), the United Kingdom (Behaviour UK - North and Behaviour UK - South) and the Netherlands (Behaviour Rotterdam).