Technical Art Director

What is your role? 

As an 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 knowledge in pipelines such as Technical Art, VFX, and Animation. This role is ideal for someone who 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:

• 5+ years as a Technical Artist or similar role within a studio environment
• 5+ years of experience managing artist workflows
  • Plus: direct people leadership
• Professional working experience with Unity
  • Plus: within past 3 years
• Professional experience using Unity/Unreal, Blender/Maya, Photoshop/Illustrator
• Strong understanding of animation, particle systems, renderers, shaders as it pertains to Unity
• Professional experience and passion for leading teams and growing skills
  

Responsibilities:

• Lead ongoing production of game ready assets related to animation, particle systems, Unity game objects, renderers, shaders
  
• Review and provide feedback for art assets
• Working with other Art Leadership to align goals and processes 
• Design, build, and optimize pipelines used by associated teams to streamline and support production and implementation
• Ensure timely delivery of assets needed by other departments
• Provide fast, sustainable integration support for departments
  
• Work with the art team to push the graphic fidelity of Last Epoch further while improving game performance 
  

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 extraordinary games. Extraordinary 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
• 35 paid time off days at start of year 
• 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