Lead 3D Environment Artist

Responsibilities

• Drive the environment art vision and quality bar while remaining highly hands-on as an individual contributor
• Build large-scale environments, vistas, and cinematic spaces with strong composition, readability, and mood
• Establish and execute landscape and terrain creation workflows, including landscape materials and advanced material setups
• Leverage procedural content workflows to accelerate world building while maintaining artistic control and consistency
• Create and facilitate project schedules; define resource needs, workflows, and milestones in collaboration with production
• Identify project and team risks through regular monitoring of production status, team morale, and communication channels; execute early interventions and preventative measures
• Document, communicate, administer, and refine art production processes; identify opportunities for improvement and execute solutions with the team
• Provide clear feedback, mentorship, and guidance to environment artists; support hiring and team growth over time

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience in environment art, including experience in a senior/lead capacity
• Demonstrable experience shipping games or live products, ideally involving large-scale environments or open/streamed worlds
• Experience with modern real-time environment workflows in a leading game engine (large-world streaming, terrain systems, real-time lighting, and performance optimization)
• Deep experience with landscape/terrain workflows and landscape materials, including complex material setups
• Proven experience with procedural content workflows used in production (procedural placement, rule-based generation, or scalable world-building tools)
• Grasp of real-time lighting fundamentals, even if not the dedicated lighting artist
• Experience building large-scale vistas and cinematic environments with strong composition and visual storytelling
• Ability to work core studio hours (10am–4pm CST)
• Familiarity with ARPGs, live-service pipelines, and multi-team collaboration

Preferrences

• Concept art background
• Ability to design worlds, spaces, and visual themes
• Strong drawing or visual ideation skills