Senior 2D Marketing Artist

Summary

Join the Steel Hunters team at Wargaming, a leading free-to-play game publisher, as a Senior 2D Marketing Artist. You will create compelling visuals for marketing and in-game content, including trailers, websites, social media, and in-game items. Your work will shape the look and feel of the game's post-apocalyptic future, bringing the Steel Hunters universe to life. You will collaborate with designers and other artists to ensure visual consistency with the game's brand and gameplay. The role requires expertise in Photoshop, Blender, and Unreal Engine, along with strong 2D and 3D hybrid art production skills. The position offers a hybrid or remote work mode within specified European locations.

Requirements

• Expert knowledge of Photoshop, Blender, and Unreal Engine
• Strong experience in 2D and 3D hybrid art production
• Proven ability to model and texture realistic environments and scenes
• Exceptional composition, lighting, and storytelling skills
• Portfolio showcasing high-quality artwork, preferably in gaming
• Fluency in English

Responsibilities

• Create Epic Marketing Art Develop key visuals for use across trailers, websites, social media, and advertising
• Design eye-catching compositions that drive player engagement and tell immersive stories
• Produce In-Game Visual Content Craft art for loading screens, battle passes, and store items that reinforce game lore and aesthetics
• Lore and World-Building Art Illustrate environments, scenes, and tell stories that expand the Steel Hunters narrative
• 3D/2D Hybrid Workflow Utilize either Blender, Maya or C4D to integrate our Hunters and their unique abilities into 3D environments, and polish them into 2D marketing art
• Use Unreal Engine to create artwork using our in-game assets and maps, including setting up in game screenshots
• Enhance visuals with photorealistic detail using Photoshop and optionally Stable Diffusion
• High end photo-bashing/matte painting to create compelling, epic scenes
• Build Immersive Sci-Fi Worlds Create believable and cinematic sci-fi scenes, including war-torn landscapes, futuristic hangars, and tactical mech combat vignettes
• Collaborate Across Creative Disciplines Work closely with designers, other artists, and narrative stakeholders to ensure all visual content aligns with brand and gameplay vision

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Maya
• Familiarity with Stable Diffusion, Loras, Comfy Ui, AI-assisted concepting workflows
• Background in game marketing art

Benefits

• 5 weeks of Annual Leave per calendar year - increasing over time to a maximum 30 days per year, with the ability to buy up to an additional 5 days through our holiday buy scheme
• Additional paid time off (Birthday Leave, Marriage Leave, Compassionate Leave)
• Sick Leave Compensation and enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave Benefits
• Dog-friendly office
• Onsite canteen (with an endless supply of free snacks and drinks)
• Video games area
• Family coverage for Private Medical Insurance (pre-existing conditions are covered), Life Insurance, Pension scheme offering a matched 4% tax free employee contribution
• Mental well-being program (iFeel)
• Wellbeing perks (Mental Health Days, Dedicated Well-being room, Team of Mental Heath First Aiders)
• Career development and education opportunities within the company
• Employee discounts via Perkbox
• Personal Wargaming Gaming Account
• Company events (including events for partners/children)
• Seniority Awards
• Referral program - you can recommend the best talents to the Company and receive a reward