Who we are:
We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Lead Environment Artist - Unreal Engine (all genders) with deep expertise in Unreal Engine to join our growing visualization team. In this leadership role, you will be responsible for guiding and mentoring a team of artists while creating stunning, immersive virtual environments used in our Virtual Production pipeline. Your leadership will drive the artistic vision and quality of our projects, ensuring assets are crafted efficiently and creatively, while maintaining technical excellence. You'll collaborate with technical artists, guiding assets through the entire production pipeline and ensuring their high-quality execution.
What you can expect:
1. Team Leadership & Guidance: Lead and mentor a team of
environment artists, providing direction, feedback, and support to
ensure high-quality output. Foster a collaborative, creative, and
productive environment while helping the team members grow their
skills.
2. Environment Design: Take ownership of creating highly immersive
and visually compelling environments from scratch for Unreal Engine,
with an emphasis on quality, performance, and optimization.
3. Continuous Improvement: Stay up-to-date with new tools,
techniques, and best practices in environment creation and Unreal
Engine. Promote innovative solutions and continuously push the
boundaries of what can be achieved with virtual production.
4. Stakeholder Communication: Collaborate with stakeholders to
understand project needs, providing regular progress updates and
ensuring the artistic vision aligns with client expectations.
5. Quality Control & Performance Optimization: Maintain a balance
between visual fidelity and performance. Ensure that assets are
optimized for rendering without compromising on visual quality.
What we expect from you:
6. 8+ years of professional experience as an environment artist, with a strong
portfolio showcasing a range of environments and asset creation work in
Unreal Engine.
7. Proven leadership experience, with the ability to guide, motivate, and
mentor a team of artists, providing constructive feedback and fostering
professional growth.
8. Expertise in asset creation workflows, including modeling, high poly to low
poly, texturing, geometry optimization, and material creation in any of the
traditional software packages (Maya, Blender, 3DSMAX, or similar).
9. Strong understanding of Unreal Engine’s environment and rendering
systems, and how they integrate with virtual production pipelines.
10. Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with
both technical and creative teams.
11. Strong problem-solving abilities, with a passion for innovation and pushing
the boundaries of virtual production.
12. Experience with the creation of photorealistic renderings.
What we offer:
13. Onboarding: Through personal mentoring and digital onboarding sessions – we ensure your perfect start
14. Further Education: Your development is important to us. Whether through our internal campus training program to expand your technical, methodological, or personal skills, voluntary language courses, or regular coaching sessions – we keep you up to date
15. Flexibility: With flexible working hours, mobile office, and job-sharing models, you can adapt your job to your life – and not the other way around
16. Fun: Who works must also take a break – with us, you have plenty of opportunities through regular after-work and team events (also virtual if necessary)
17. Sports: Extensive sports program as well as mobility through agency bicycles and e-bikes/e-bike leasing
18. Accessibility: Our modern office in Munich is perfectly located and easily accessible
19. Internationality: As an internationally operating agency group, you have the opportunity to network and exchange ideas with colleagues from various disciplines around the world
Interested?
Then we look forward to receiving your detailed application documents, including your salary expectations and earliest possible starting date.
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