Studio: YAGER
Job Opening: Lead Artist
Location: Berlin, Germany
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Collaborating with the Art Director in setting the visual style and quality bar for our art style, assets, and overall art production
- Ensure output of the team meets technical, artistic, and scheduling goals
- Driving creation pipeline development and documentation
- Leading efforts to optimize art assets for performance and memory usage
- Collaborate with the design team to ensure our art is built to support gameplay as well as with producers to prioritize and plan work for the team and outsourcing partners
- Mentor and coach your team in improving soft and hard skills and take an active part in the asset creation process
- Providing clear, concise, consistent, and timely visual direction, guidance, and feedback
- Review and deliver work in accordance with the project’s artistic direction
- Take part in the hiring process of new artists
Qualifications & Skills:
- 5+ years of experience in professional game development as an artist
- Having shipped at least one project in an artistic leadership role
- Strong leadership, team, and people management skills
- Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and collaborative problem-solving mindset
- Deep experience with asset creation tools
- Excellent understanding of state-of-the-art pipelines and workflows
- Expert knowledge of Z-Brush, Autodesk Maya, 3ds Max, Photoshop, and Substance Suite or equivalent
- Ability to work within deadlines and display strong time management skills
- Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing
- Passion for videogames
Apply for the Job Online: To apply, visit https://yager.jobs.personio.de/job/605805?display=en#apply