Environment Art Lead

As a part of that mission, we are pioneering the future of social virtual reality applications, and we need wonderful 3D art. Come join small teams creating genuinely new experiences within virtual reality. This is a rare opportunity to use your artistic talent to help define the look and feel of this medium for a vast audience of future participants. Join us in creating the future!

Environment Art Lead Responsibilities:

• Evolve and execute artistic vision and high production standard in the creation of products in direct collaboration with creative, technical and production leaders
• Regularly meet with environment team members and pod leads to give artistic feedback, guide quality, and ensure environment cohesion across projects
• Create documentation and guides for internal and external teams in partnership with the Art Director
• Collaborate with tech art team on environment tool needs
• Manage expectations for key stakeholders regarding the execution of quality VR experiences and content
• Use industry standard and proprietary tools to create content
• Partner with PMs and art management to plan production priorities and review production art for check in
• Partner with product managers, engineers, user researchers, and designers to see our projects through from concept to ship and beyond

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience in supervising and driving projects from beginning to end
• Experience in articulating visual vision to 3D artists and collaborate with multidisciplinary contributors to arrive at the visual goal
• Experience in leading art styles, from realistic to caricature to abstract
• Knowledge of art and visual design principles and techniques relating to environmental design
• Knowledge of game development including: art creation processes (both 2D and 3D), technology requirements and advancements, trade-offs, and challenges associated with development
• Experience at problem solving (both alone and in groups), evaluate challenges and provide solutions
• Organizational experience with managing multiple projects, setting priorities, and meeting deadlines and expectations

Preferred Qualifications:

• Industry experience in games or other 3D interactive media, VR development experience
• Technical experience in standard game engines such as Unity or Unreal and art pipelines
• Proficient in industry standard art tools such as Photoshop, Maya, Modo, Zbrush or similar
• Portfolio demonstrating an interest in games and/or VR
• Experience as Lead Artist in charge of significant aspect of visual development

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