Escape Velocity Entertainment is hiring a
Technical Art Director

Summary

Escape Velocity is seeking a Technical Art Director to lead the technical art and animation teams, streamline workflows, create tools, and ensure maximum efficiency and quality in visual targets within projects. The candidate should have 9+ years of experience in art or technical art roles, with 3+ years of leadership or management experience, deep knowledge and experience developing art solutions in Unreal Engine, and excellent organizational and communication skills.

Requirements

• 9+ years of experience working in Art, or Technical Art roles, with consistent increasing complexity
• 3+ years of leadership or management experience
• Released Unreal Engine Game & taking multiple projects to ship
• Development experience for multiple platforms, ideally including mobile
• Deep knowledge and experience developing art solutions in Unreal Engine
• Understanding of risk management principles and demonstrated ability to put them into practice
• Customer-service mindset to enable and support our success while setting clear boundaries of responsibility
• Proven leadership skills and a willingness to take initiative to communicate, coordinate, and negotiate between different disciplines with kindness and respect
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with a high degree of detail with peers, partners, and different cultural groups across multiple disciplines with an added ability to clearly express technical material with non-technical audiences
• A positive force multiplier with a great team-player attitude
• Highly detail-oriented, deadline-driven, and able to embrace change for a fast-growing organization
• Excellent organizational and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Serve as the crucial bridge between artists and engineers, working closely with all art disciplines to streamline workflows, create tools for artists, and ensure maximum efficiency and quality in visual targets within our projects
• Lead the Technical Art & Animation teams, directing, defining, and implementing efficient, high-quality content production workflows and technologies
• Turn creative visions into technical realities

Benefits

• Escape Velocity offers excellent benefits and a fantastic project
• Escape Velocity is fully remote and supports team members nearly anywhere in the world
• Escape Velocity prioritizes honesty, even when that means sharing bad news
• Escape Velocity strives to give everyone autonomy so they can determine how best to work and play
• Escape Velocity cares more about what you bring to the game and studio than how many hours you’re clocking
• Escape Velocity is dedicated to building a culture of play, which not only makes us better game makers, but also strengthens the bonds between us all