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We love creators. We love fans. We love thrilling games, indelible images and moving stories. Our roots are in comics, but our brands extend to video games, television, movies, merchandise, and live experiences. We take special pride in original tales, fresh characters, and diverse voices.

From well-known franchises to freshly-minted originals, we offer the chance to join brilliant creators shaping a new generation of entertainment in a concentrated, agile environment where every perspective matters, and any idea can create a breakthrough.

Skybound is looking for a Lead Technical Artist to join in the creation of a new, unannounced project, with a unique and stunning art style executed on top of UE5. The Lead Technical Artist will establish, drive, and maintain pipelines, manage a team of technical artists, and ensure assets going into the game are sustainable and high quality.

As a Lead Technical Artist, you will oversee the pipelines and processes used by the art team to bring one of Skybound’s major properties to life. You will work collaboratively with artists, designers, and engineers to deliver innovative visual features along with high-fidelity characters and environments to our players. You will help guide the team to harness and extend UE5’s features to achieve striking visuals true to art direction and within performance targets. If you are looking for an energetic team with exciting IPs, combat DNA and a drive to deliver breakthrough visuals, this may be the role for you!

Reports: This position will report to the Technical Director

Responsibilities: Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Lead and mentor a team of technical artists, fostering an enthusiastic and creative environment
• Own and assist hands-on with rigging and skinning of real-time characters
• Collaborate with the Art Director, Tech Director, animators, and artists in establishing robust and efficient art asset pipelines
• Lead the charge in diagnosing, debugging, and brainstorming pipeline issues
• Work across disciplines to ensure the team is building content sustainably and in support of aggressive performance targets while maximizing fidelity
• Establish methods, techniques, tools, and standards to boost the efficiency of the team
• Participate actively in the art review and feedback process to help find creative solutions to achieve results that are faithful to artistic direction and visual targets
• Provide estimates, manage time, and hit deadlines to stay on track with set schedules and tasks
• Mentor, learn from, and share knowledge with others on the team
• Be strategic. Be resourceful. Maximize your impact. Play the game

Requirements:

• 6+ years as a professional character TD, character artist, or rigger
• 3+ years of professional game development experience in Unreal as a technical artist
• Experienced rigging and skinning high-fidelity production game characters
• Expertise in video game asset pipelines and common DCC packages
• Proven ability to build tools and extend major workflows to enable professional art teams
• Working knowledge of Unreal Engine’s asset pipelines
• Self-motivated with excellent researching, problem-solving, and debugging skills
• Strong understanding of game content pipelines
• Experience shipping a product on multiple console or PC platforms
• Prefers a fun, passionate, and team-oriented work environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Passion for video game development, combat-oriented games, and Skybound IP

Job Type: Regular, Full-Time

Salary Range: $150,000-$170,000

• Actual base salary is dependent on several factors including but not limited to; market dynamics, location and region, experience, specialized skills/training (education), level of responsibility, budgetary considerations, tenure at the company (for current employees), etc.
• The salary range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for employees
• Compensation decisions are dependent on circumstances of each role

Skybound offers a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, flexible spending and dependent care accounts, as well as free counseling through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We also offer a 401K plan with 4% match, 12 weeks of paid parental leave, generous time off, wellness benefits, and tuition reimbursement.

Company Overview

Skybound is a multiplatform content company working closely with creators and their intellectual properties, extending stories and universes to new platforms, including comics, television, film, tabletop and video games, books, digital content, events, and beyond. We are home to critically-acclaimed global franchises, including The Walking Dead and Invincible.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Skybound we value diversity and are looking for extraordinary employees of all backgrounds! Skybound is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship, age, genetic information, disability, hair texture or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, Skybound complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination.

Skybound will consider applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the CA Fair Chance Act and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.