Position Summary
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.
As a Unity expert, you’ll be leveraging your knowledge of technical art systems to create UI prefabs, Mechanim, timelines, particle systems, shaders, and materials. You’ll support Live events and economy rollouts with the LiveOps team by packaging assets together for dynamic delivery to players.
Essential Job Functions
- Mentor the art team in the technical aspects of Unity asset creation.
- Perform R&D for new technology required for feature implementation through creative problem solving, iterative design, and prototyping.
- Assist in developing standards, processes, and proprietary tools alongside Production and Development teams.
- Document processes and procedures for game features and associated Unity implementation.
- Adhere to file structure in artistic source, directory, and version management.
- 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 reliably 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 items across the art pipeline—from asset optimization, exporting, through implementation and testing.
Education & Experience
Bachelor of Arts in art, animation, or a technical degree, or equivalent industry experience. At least 3 years of previous experience as a digital artist with a considerable amount of technical responsibility.
Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Deep practical knowledge of what Unity can and can’t do, especially regarding the UI system, Mechanim, timelines, particle system, shaders, materials, optimizations and troubleshooting.
- Proficient in Photoshop, Unity, and 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 platforms.
- Working knowledge of production collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence).
- Proficient in asset management and managing branching inside version control systems (Git).
- Working knowledge of MS Office.
- 3D experience.
Level Requirements
Portfolio (website or blog required for pre-interview).
Bonus Experience & Skills
- Released titles that use Unity game engine.
- Working knowledge of Unity’s Universal Rendering Pipeline and 2D character animation.
- Scripting ability with common art tooling (Photoshop, 3ds Max).
- Knowledge of C# scripting in Unity.
- Ability to script using Python.
Benefits
Competitive salaries, annual bonuses, matching 401(k). Fun environment with open office concept, ergonomic seating and standing desks, a game room with current-generation consoles, and food provided. Company-paid lunches twice a week, paid family leave, paid volunteer time, and an annual 2-night company retreat.
Equal Opportunity
SciPlay is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or disability. For more information about your equal employment opportunity rights, please see our EEOC poster.
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