Freelance Character Art Lead

Freelance Character Art Lead (Remote)

Location: Europe (CEE, Southern Europe and the Balkans preferred)
Rate: up to €45/hour, depending on experience and location

We’re looking for a new colleague who can take ownership of a small AAA character team, usually 3 to 8 artists, and help them consistently hit a high bar across humans and creatures.

Plan A is a co-dev studio built around senior specialist teams. You know our work from Saros, Battlefield, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Kingdom Come: Deliverance and other games.

This is not just a review role, nor a management role detached from the craft. You should be equally comfortable discussing anatomy, likeness and materials as you are hair, clothing, topology, textures or production constraints.

Depending on the project, you may be supervising artists, talking directly with the client, owning parts of the character pipeline, or jumping hands-on into an asset when needed.

Non-negotiables:

• strong AAA character art track record
• proven experience leading, mentoring or supervising artists
• ability to give clear, useful and actionable feedback
• strong understanding of the technical side of production, including hair/groom, clothing and game-ready assets
• good understanding of character production pipelines and the ability to improve them when needed
• comfortable working across both humans and creatures
• strong client communication skills in English
• caring about the people you lead and making a distributed team feel like an actual team
• ability to spot problems early and help artists solve them

This is freelance/project-based work, with scope ranging from hands-on lead work to supervision and client-facing ownership depending on the project.

We take pride in playing fair and treating people well: clear expectations, honest communication, no manufactured emergencies.

If this sounds like you, reach out with your portfolio, AAA credits and a few words about teams you’ve led or supervised to recruiter contact.

And please share this if someone in your network fits the bill! <3