Art directors jobs in Canada

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Counted Nov 2, 2026

Hiring at a glance

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Open jobs: 69
Employers: 45

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payCAD / year: $90,300Across 11 listings

Employer-advertised starting pay, not employee salaries. Currencies and pay periods stay separate.

Where work happens

Remote: 10%7 listings
Hybrid: 45%31 listings
On-site: 45%31 listings

Employers hiring include Keywords Studios (6), Ogilvy Canada (4), Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V (4).

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These figures describe the listings on this role page at the date shown, not the whole job market. Listings can change.

Employer-listed minimums from at least 10 listings per currency and pay period. These are advertised starting amounts, not employee salaries. Jobs without a minimum and unusual amounts are excluded.

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Associate Art Director
Scopely
Canada
- Full-time
Scopely is looking for an Associate Art Director to join our art team. Working with the Senior Art Director and creative leadership, you’ll help shape the game’s visual identity and guide…
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ACD Art Director
ONE23WEST
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
We’re on the lookout for an ACD Art Director to join our team:
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Art Director
Leo Toronto
Toronto, ON · Greater Toronto Area, Canada
- $75,000 to $85,000 CAD / year
- Full-time
As an Art Director, you will support and sometimes lead the creative vision for our projects, ensuring high-quality visual output that aligns with our brand identity and objectives. You…
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Art Director - Thinkingbox
Thinkingbox
Vancouver, BC
- Full-time
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Art Director
Cozey
Mont-Royal, QC
We're looking for an Art Director who's a visionary conceptual thinker, who can translate brand and creative strategies into stunning and compelling content that is visually impactful and…
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Art Director
Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
As an Art Director, you will support and sometimes lead the creative vision for our projects, ensuring high-quality visual output that aligns with our brand identity and objectives.
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Sr Creative Team: Sr Copywriter + Sr Art Director
INNOCEAN Canada
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
We’re looking for a Senior Copywriter and a Senior Art Director who already work together as a pair. We’re hiring both roles at once, and we want to meet you as a team, with your partner…
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Art Director
Voldex Games
Remote, Canada
- Full-time
- Remote
Voldex is looking for an Art Director to lead and scale our
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Art Director
Canada Goose
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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Art Director (Rainbow Six Siege)
Ubisoft
Montreal, QC
- Full-time
As an Art Director at Ubisoft Montréal, you will shape the artistic vision and visual identity
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Associate Art Director
Scopely
Canada
Scopely is looking for an Associate Art Director to join our art team. Working with the Senior Art Director and creative leadership, you’ll help shape the game’s visual identity and guide…
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Retail Art Director, NA Brand Creative (Freelance, 1 year Contract)
lululemon
Vancouver, BC
- Full-time
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Directeur·trice artistique senior / Senior Art Director
Havas Creative Canada
Montreal, QC
- Full-time
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Senior Art Director
Ogilvy
Toronto, ON
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Senior Art Director
Ogilvy Canada
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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Assistant Art Director Visual Design
Ubisoft
Montreal, QC
- $96,300 to $106,300 CAD / year
- Full-time
The Assistant Art Director Visual Design is responsible for assisting the Art Director Visual D
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Creative Director (Art Director)
VML
Toronto, ON
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Creative Director (Art Director)
VML Canada (English)
Toronto, ON
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Art Director- Kidsbooks Publishing
Book Depot
Thorold, ON
- Up to $110,000 USD / year
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Senior Art Director
RCL - Reitmans Canada Ltd/Ltée
Montreal, QC
- Full-time
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Senior Art Director
Reitmans (Canada) Ltée/Ltd
Montreal, QC
- Full-time
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Senior Art Director
Ogilvy
Toronto, ON
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Senior Art Director
Ogilvy Canada
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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Associate Art Director - Characters | Directeur.trice Artistique Associé.e – Personnages
NBCUniversal
Montreal, QC
- Full-time
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Artistic director - motion picture
Galerie O-Art
Trois-Rivières, QC
- From $25 CAD / hour
- Full-time
- On-site

Scopely

Associate Art Director

Canada

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Job details

Posting language: English
Posted: Oct 21, 2026

Original job description

Scopely is looking for an Associate Art Director to join our art team. Working with the Senior Art Director and creative leadership, you’ll help shape the game’s visual identity and guide art from early development through delivery.

This role focuses on creative direction, visual judgment, and alignment across disciplines. You’ll translate the artistic vision into clear briefs, references, reviews, and actionable feedback. You’ll also contribute hands-on in at least one art discipline, moving between high-level direction and detailed critique, paintovers, or blockouts.

What You Will Do

Partner with the Senior Art Director and creative leadership to define the game’s visual identity, principles, style guides, briefs, references, and quality standards.
Align art disciplines and partner teams around shared goals, dependencies, handoffs, and decisions. Lead visual reviews, critiques, kickoffs, and alignment sessions with clear, constructive feedback.
Guide the creation and refinement of characters, environments, props, lighting, animation, VFX, UI, and other visual components, maintaining cohesion and variety.
Work with design, narrative, engineering, production, and external development partners to carry the artistic intent through development.
Contribute hands-on through concept development, paintovers, blockouts, callout sheets, reference packages, prototypes, or other art tasks.
Partner with production and discipline leads to understand milestones, surface risks, and keep creative priorities moving toward delivery.
Support artists, external partners, and vendors with clear direction, feedback, and mentorship.
Improve visual review and direction processes, represent the art team in cross-functional discussions, and communicate priorities to artists, partners, and senior stakeholders.

What We’re Looking For

5+ years of professional experience creating art for games, animation, film, or a related visual medium, or equivalent experience, with a record of taking on increasing creative responsibility.
Experience helping define, communicate, and execute an artistic vision from early development through delivery.
Strong hands-on experience in at least one art discipline, with particular relevance to character art, environment art, or both.
Ability to communicate visual direction, facilitate constructive reviews, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, external partners, and distributed contributors.
Working knowledge of production planning, prioritization, and milestone constraints, with the judgment to balance creative priorities and delivery needs.
Experience creating or contributing to art bibles, style guides, visual development packages, mood boards, paintovers, callout sheets, or similar direction-setting materials.
Understanding of game art and real-time production pipelines, plus familiarity with relevant 2D and/or 3D content creation tools.
A portfolio that demonstrates artistic judgment, visual problem-solving, hands-on craft, and the ability to guide work from concept to completion.
Experience in mobile game development or art direction.

Bonus Points

Familiarity with the Unity game engine.
Experience supporting live service content development.

About Scopely

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry - bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.

Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team - including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Scopely Explore games businesses - Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.

Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good - creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.

Scopely has global operations and partners across four continents in more than a dozen countries worldwide. For more information, visit: https://www.scopely.com/.

Notice to Candidates: Scopely will never request payment or financial information during the application or hiring process. Please apply only through our official website and verify that all Talent Partner communications come from an email address ending in @scopely.com.

Should you have any questions or encounter any fraudulent requests/emails/websites, please immediately contact recruiting@scopely.com. Our job applicant privacy policies are available here: California Privacy Notice and EEA/UK Privacy Notice.

Employment at Scopely is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. Scopely does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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Responsibilities

The Associate Art Director will partner with creative leadership to define and execute the visual identity of games from development through delivery. They will provide constructive feedback, guide multidisciplinary art teams, and contribute hands-on to various art disciplines.

Requirements

Candidates must have 5+ years of professional experience in games, animation, or film with a strong portfolio demonstrating artistic judgment. Proficiency in at least one art discipline and experience in defining visual style guides and production pipelines are required.

Skills

Art Direction
Visual Identity
Creative Leadership
Character Art
Environment Art
Unity
Visual Development
Paintovers
Blockouts
Concept Development
Mentorship
Cross-functional Collaboration
Production Planning
UI Design
VFX
Animation

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Keywords

Art Direction
Game Development
Mobile Games
Unity
Visual Identity
Creative Leadership
Character Art
Environment Art
UI
VFX
Animation
Art Bibles
Style Guides
Mood Boards
Paintovers
Blockouts
Callout Sheets
Live Service
Production Pipelines
Cross-functional Collaboration
Mentorship
Visual Development
Prototyping
Artistic Vision
Quality Standards

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