Company Description

Quidich Innovation Labs pioneers products and customized technology solutions for the Sports Broadcast & Film industry. With a mission to bring machines and machine learning to sports, we use camera technology to develop services using remote controlled systems like drones and buggies that add value to any broadcast or production. Quidich provides services to some of the biggest sports and broadcast clients in India and across the globe. A few recent projects include Indian Premier League, ICC World Cup for Men and Women, Kaun Banega Crorepati, Bigg Boss, Gully Boy and Sanju.

What’s Unique About Quidich?

• Your work will be consumed by millions of people within months of your joining and will impact consumption patterns of how live sport is viewed across the globe.
• You work with passionate, talented, and diverse people who inspire and support you to achieve your goals.
• You work in a culture of trust, care, and compassion.
• You have the autonomy to shape your role, and drive your own learning and growth.

Job Description

The Role

As the Graphics Director you’ll be leading the creative team (Unreal Designers) and working along with the technology team (AI/ML/Computer Vision) focused on bringing art and tech together to create innovative  AR/VR experiences that improve the broadcast of live sport across the globe. You will strive for the highest possible visual quality of all graphics and products at Quidich, while managing and building the creative team. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated team player who can provide clear direction, understand the client requirement to build on the design requirements and push a creative vision through to completion. In this role, you’ll add your unique creative input to cutting-edge initiatives including: augmented reality experiences, application design for mobile/web/PC and creative visualization of all new products and services at Quidich. 

This person will be responsible for contributing to the overall visual design process in the organization- from concept, to design thinking and development, to the final delivery that will be delivered across all Quidich products.

Responsibilities

• Working in collaboration with Product Design, Product Management, Engineering and Data Science to absorb knowledge, define opportunities and develop concepts and treatments to bring ideas to life.
• Establishing an artistic direction, vision, and high production standards in the creation of AR experiences across all Quidich platforms. 
• Leading strategic choices about the future direction of Quidich products by designing new experiences and layouts.
• Working closely with the management team to create project pitches, and actionable production plans.
• Creating sketches, storyboards, prototypes, and/or design specs necessary to guide development of product experiences.
• Working closely with engineers to explore the foundational digital character design of Player Tracker and Drone Tracker. 
• Directing brainstorming meetings and creative sessions.
• Taking responsibility for the creation of style guides and related materials for internal and external teams.
• Building a strong understanding of AR/VR and coaching others in successful execution in that space.
• Giving and collecting inputs from designers and the rest of the product team in order to keep raising the bar for visual quality.