OPM’s client are a vigorous, ambitious and rapidly expanding developer and publisher of PC and home console video games around the globe, and also a market leader in the niche of free-to-play online multiplayer games.

They are looking for a Technical Art Lead to join their studio in Beijing, China.

Responsibilities:

• Research, define, extend, and maintain production pipelines, processes, and workflows
• Interface with stakeholders. Liaise between team members; drive collaborative projects
• Identify problems; solve them: invent or build robust, quality technical implementations
• Refine and improve artist workflows
• Mentor and guide art, FX and lighting team members in areas of expertise; instill best practices
• Partner with leads and directors to meet visual and technical standards
• Help with optimization efforts by educating team members as well as driving profiling automation and workflows.

Requirements:

• Exceptional problem-solving skills
• Ability and willingness to lead small teams in a personnel management capacity
• Coach and mentor a team both technically and from a career perspective
• Work with external vendors to help create briefs and define technical guidelines
• Work effectively in a cross functional team, understanding complex asset dependencies
• Experience with shaders, physically based rendering and material authoring pipelines
• Excels in Maya
• Exceptionally skilled in Substance Designer/Painter
• MEL, Python, HLSL scripting knowledge is a plus
• Strong organizational skills (pipeline optimization, goal setting, writing documentation, etc.)
• Strong ZBrush or Mudbox experience
• Experience with organic and inorganic modelling
• Frostbite/Unreal experience
• Extensive experience
• Education required: completion of high school, some college, vocational training or University or equivalent work experience/training

Tagged as: Technical Art