Lead Environment Concept Artist

What We Do

Epic Games is searching for an experienced Lead Environment Concept Artist to support and supervise environment concept content created by external partners as part of our collaboration with Disney.

What You'll Do

• Help drive the visual quality, consistency, and world-building direction of environment concept art across the project.
• Collaborate with both internal and external teams to ensure concept work aligns with the project’s artistic vision, gameplay needs, and production requirements while helping establish a clear quality bar for outsourced environment art.
• Partner closely with the Art Director, Environment Art Leads, Outsource Managers, and internal art teams to support external environment concept vendors.
• Communicate the project’s visual direction and world-building goals to outsource partners while ensuring all submitted work meets Epic and Disney quality standards.
• Create and oversee high-quality environment concept designs that support the visual identity and storytelling needs of the project.
• Create mood boards, paint-overs, visual target references, callouts, and production documentation to guide external teams.
• Define environment pipelines, workflows, and quality benchmarks for outsourced concept art production.
• Review outsource submissions and provide clear, actionable artistic feedback to ensure consistency in style, tone, composition, and functionality.
• Collaborate closely with environment art, level design, lighting, VFX, and gameplay teams to ensure concepts support downstream production requirements.
• Identify risks, communication gaps, or quality concerns early and escalate appropriately to leadership when needed.
• Lead, mentor, and provide artistic direction for a small team of environment concept artists.

What We're Looking For

• Exceptional portfolio demonstrating strong environment concept art skills, visual storytelling, composition, color theory, lighting, and world-building.
• A deep understanding of environmental design principles, including architecture, atmosphere, scale, shape language, and gameplay readability.
• Experience working as a Senior or Lead Environment Concept Artist on at least one shipped AAA title.
• Strong ability to communicate visual direction and collaborate effectively with both internal developers and external outsourcing partners.
• Experience creating production-ready concept packages, including callouts, orthographic designs, paint-overs, and reference sheets.
• Understanding of downstream game development workflows and how concept art supports environment art, lighting, level design, and VFX production.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and feedback skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced production environment.
• Proven ability to maintain high artistic standards while balancing production realities and schedules.
• Experience working with stylized and/or highly immersive world-building aesthetics is a strong plus.
• Bonus: Fluency in an additional language such as Chinese, Spanish, German, Italian, or Russian.

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

• Pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents for Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match.
• We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.
• Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks.
• We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

About Us

Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 years we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent. Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

About Epic Games

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.

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