[Hiring] Senior World Artist @Keywords Studios

Role Description

We're looking for a Senior World Artist to lead the delivery of high-quality environments for an exciting sports/racing title being developed in Unity.

• Review grey-box levels and develop a clear artistic vision that supports gameplay, readability, and the overall visual direction.
• Break environments into achievable work packages and produce accurate estimates for asset creation and implementation.
• Create comprehensive asset briefs, including reference, technical specifications, modular requirements, and quality expectations.
• Work closely with production to plan, prioritise, and track environment deliverables.
• Guide and review the work of a distributed team of environment artists, providing clear feedback to ensure consistent quality.
• Oversee the implementation of environment assets within Unity, ensuring they integrate cleanly with existing systems and workflows.
• Drive optimisation throughout production, balancing visual quality with performance, memory, and production cost.
• Collaborate with designers, technical artists, and engineers to resolve artistic and technical challenges.
• Identify opportunities to maximise asset reuse, modularity, and efficient production workflows.
• Maintain documentation, pipelines, and best practices to support consistent delivery across the team.

Qualifications

• Significant professional experience as a Senior Environment Artist on shipped console or PC titles.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality environment art and excellent understanding of composition, materials, and environmental storytelling.
• Experience planning and delivering large-scale environment production from concept or grey-box through to final implementation.
• Demonstrable experience creating detailed asset briefs and managing outsourced or distributed art production.
• Excellent understanding of modular environment construction and efficient asset reuse.
• Strong working knowledge of Unity and its environment production workflows.
• Excellent understanding of optimisation techniques, including draw calls, batching, LODs, texture budgets, memory management, and performance profiling.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to estimate work accurately and manage competing priorities.
• Excellent communication skills and experience collaborating across multidisciplinary teams.
• Proactive, self-motivated, and comfortable taking ownership of environment delivery.

Requirements

• Experience working on sports, racing, or other large-scale outdoor environments.
• Experience leading outsourced art production or working within an art outsourcing studio.
• Familiarity with procedural environment workflows and world-building tools.
• Experience developing modular kits and scalable environment pipelines.
• Understanding of lighting, terrain, vegetation, and material workflows within Unity.
• Experience mentoring junior and mid-level environment artists.

Benefits

• Employment Type: Contract
• Working Pattern: Full Time, Remote