[Hiring] Art Lead (Third-person action shooter) @Blackbird Interactive

Role Description

Blackbird Interactive is seeking a passionate Art Lead to join our team on an upcoming third-person action shooter. Do you have a broad range of creative and technical experience building worlds and levels in Unreal Engine 5? Are you skilled at creating art under a strong technical brief? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

At BBI, you’ll join a fast-moving team developing a third-person action game. We support remote and hybrid working arrangements across Canada. At BBI, you’ll find a flexible, forward-thinking environment where creative voices are valued and nurtured.

Please include a link to your portfolio with your CV.

Responsibilities

• Maintain an Art Vision established by the external partner whilst driving new content and features.
• Control character-driven technical pipelines, as well as content for environment assets and kits.
• Collaborate with production to ensure the product stays on time and on budget to the highest quality.
• Create and drive visual targets that set the vision & quality bar for art in-engine.
• Delegate and direct responsibilities where needed, and proactively seek out and present solutions to problems.
• Give clear and consistent communication (and feedback) to the development team and external partners throughout production. Sell the Art Direction to all invested parties.
• Collaborate with the Game leadership team to deliver a world-class addition to a popular indie franchise, and work with production to ensure the product stays on time and on budget.
• Help mentor and grow artists to improve in their thinking, process, and craft. Inspire the art team to deliver consistent quality across all art disciplines.
• Collaborate with studio art leadership to grow and maintain an inspiring art culture, and participate in hiring and maintaining the best talent in the industry.
• Drive all disciplines within the Art Department, including stylisation and optimisation approaches for VFX and Tech Art.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of extensive games industry art experience.
• 2+ years preferred as an Art Lead (or Director).
• Experience with both Console and PC releases.
• Unreal 4 or 5 experience.
• Demonstrable ability to drive art pipelines and achieve results.
• Expresses passion and strong skills in both 2D and 3D art.
• Communicate an eagerness for playing current popular games and understanding the art direction decisions.

Requirements

• $98,000 - $125,000 a year.