Job Posting for Technical Art Director at Eleventh Hour Games
What is your role?
As a Technical Art Director for Eleventh Hour Games, you will act as the bridge between an artist and a developer, making sure we are making the best technical choices, developing efficient pipelines and driving the performance and visual quality of our games. We’re looking for an experienced leader with extensive technical knowledge and who is passionate about managing people and driving best practices across our team.
This role is ideal for someone who craves ownership and has strong technical and communication skills, both written and verbal. The role requires excellent communication skills and autonomy as you will be working with a fully remote team.
Qualifications:
Working C# knowledge is a prerequisite for the role
3 years of applicable professional experience as a Technical Artist/TD/Tools Programmer in the video games industry
3-5 years of working experience with Unity
Strong understanding of performance optimization including animation, particle systems, Unity game objects, renderers, shaders
Strong communication, self-management, organizational, and planning skills
Ability to work within and set a schedule and deliver to deadlines effectively
Experience with automation services such as Jenkins
Experience using Motionbuilder and/or Maya as a Technical Artist/TD
Experience working with the Agile Scrum methodology
Experience with workflow monitoring tools such as ClickUp
Experience writing APIs
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Experience with setting up CI/CD systems on Github or Gitlab platforms
3 years of experience with writing tools and developing workflows
Responsibilities:
Lead ongoing performance optimization efforts related to animation, particle systems, Unity game objects, renderers, shaders
Lead optimization process development and oversee them across the studio
Provide fast, sustainable integration support for departments
Push the graphic fidelity of Last Epoch further while improving game performance
Collaborate and communicate with various other departments
Design, build, improve and optimize pipelines used by associated teams to streamline and support production
Properly document new additions and modifications to processes for both developers and users
Effectively communicate and perform updates to software to support teams across
Review and provide feedback for submitted code
Why Eleventh Hour Games? EHG is a fast growing Indie Studio, focused on a passion for top-down action RPGs. We value open communication, close-knit teamwork, and opportunity for ownership and growth! Our mission is to gather and empower the next generation of creators to forge epic games. Epic games build passionate communities, which create passionate people. Passionate people turn into next year's creators. With our debut title Last Epoch,we are moving fast into the next round of adventure!
Flexible fully remote working arrangements
Team focused environment, including casual game nights
20 vacation days, 10 sick days, 5 floating holidays at the start of each year (increased with company tenure)
90% paid health coverage premiums for U.S. based employees dependents
Dental, Vision for U.S. based employees dependents
401K for U.S. based employees
Salary.com Estimation for Technical Art Director in Dallas, TX
$83,047 to $114,244
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