Lead Environment Artist

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Requirements:

• Experience as a lead on at least one shipped AAA title.
• Experience working with open-world type games.
• Career experience which includes multiple AAA development cycles.
• Excellent art foundational skills.
• An eye for set design, environment composition, and photorealism.
• A tech-minded approach, and strong capacity to tweak and optimize content in all parts of the asset creation pipeline.
• Experience in long planning and possible production problem-solving.
• Fluency in game development processes and PBR asset creation workflows for next-generation games.
• Strong knowledge of Substance / Quixel packages.
• Fluent in industry-standard software for 3D art production.
• Experience with modularity and procedure content generation in environment art creation.
• Experience working with UE5.

Responsibilities:

• Work alongside current Lead, Art Directors and Art pipeline supervisor to maintain and push visual quality while delivering within production needs.
• Manage the Environment team, including setting objectives and quality expectations.
• Coach, mentor and develop the team for personal and collective growth.
• Track and assign tasks in Jira and other project-tracking software.
• Highlight and mitigate issues that may cause bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with designers and other departments to achieve the best look for the game.
• Share knowledge and improve project tools and functions.