Senior Technical Artist

About the role

The Senior Technical Artist acts as a resource within the art team, mentoring other artists in the use of Unity, optimizing asset creation pipelines, troubleshooting technical issues, and when necessary, acting as a conduit between the art and engineering teams to ensure art content is correctly integrated into the game.

Responsibilities

• Mentor the art team in the technical aspects of Unity asset creation
• Perform R&D for new tech required for feature implementation through creative problem solving, iterative design, and prototyping
• Aid in developing standards, processes, and proprietary tools alongside Production and Development teams
• Document processes and procedures for game features and associated Unity implementation
• Communicate between engineers, designers, and non-technical artists to package assets efficiently for quality products on the target platform
• Communicate with LiveOps and Configuration Managers to identify, package, create, and verify assets required to support in-game events and economy rollouts
• Own technical delivery of assets for scheduled updates, ensuring all assets are fully tested and perform and reliably delivered against production deadlines
• Demonstrate a strong desire to continuously improve skills through independent learning and collaboration with team members; identify more efficient processes to improve throughput
• Maintain a high degree of professionalism and receptiveness to critique from team members
• Self-manage time effectively with a reasonable degree of accountability and minimal instruction
• Create 2D assets for all aspects of the product including UI, composition, VFX, and animations
• Oversee and support with items across the art pipeline -- from asset optimization, exporting, through implementation and test

Requirements

• Bachelor of Arts in art/animation or technical degree or equivalent industry experience
• At least 3 years previous experience as a digital artist with a considerable amount of technical responsibility

Qualifications

• Deep practical knowledge of what Unity can and can’t do especially regarding the UI system, Mechanim, timelines, the particle system, shaders and materials, optimizations and troubleshooting
• Proficient in Photoshop, Unity, 3DS Max
• Proficient in UI Design and development in Unity
• Proficient in Unity animation systems and knowledge of event driven programming
• Proficient in implementing art into Unity prefabs complete with animations and atlases
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding of how to design art for various themes and target platform
• Working knowledge of production collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence)
• Proficient in Asset management and managing branching inside of version control systems (Git)
• Working knowledge of MS Office
• 3D experience

Skills

• Scripting ability to common art tooling (Photoshop, 3ds Max)
• C# scripting knowledge in Unity
• Scripting ability using Python

Benefits

Competitive salaries
Annual bonuses, matching 401k
Fun environment: Open Office Concept with Ergonomic Seating and Standing Desks. Game Room featuring current generation consoles, numerous game titles, and various table games.
Food! Fully Stocked Kitchen with Beverages and Snacks, as well as company-paid lunches
2x/week
Paid Family Leave
Paid Volunteer Time
Annual 2-night company retreat

Pay

TBD

Schedule

TBD