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Lead Artist

Posted 3 hours 11 minutes ago by Jobtailor

Permanent

Not Specified

Other

Cambridgeshire, Cambridge, United Kingdom, CB1 0

Job Description

Responsibilities

Leading the delivery of scenery assets and set-based content across your team's workstreams, ensuring output meets quality, performance, and schedule expectations.
Translating art direction into clear, actionable goals and supporting your team to deliver consistent, high-quality results.
Working closely with Production to plan work, provide estimates, track progress, and identify risks early.
Supporting your team day to day by reviewing work, providing clear feedback, and helping to resolve challenges to keep delivery moving.
Ensuring assets are combined into cohesive, believable scenery that supports gameplay, readability, and visual storytelling.
Maintaining alignment with technical requirements, pipelines, and performance constraints.
Line managing artists, supporting their development through feedback, coaching, and structured growth.
Assigning work effectively to balance delivery needs with individual development.
Creating a positive, collaborative team environment where people feel supported and motivated.
Acting as the main point of contact for scenery related work, collaborating with Art Direction, Production, and other teams to keep everything aligned and moving forward.
Contributing to team planning and resourcing, supporting improvements to workflows and processes, and working with external partners where required.

Requirements

Strong experience delivering high quality 3D assets within a game development environment.
Highly developed capability in asset creation workflows, including modelling, texturing, and real time integration.
Solid hands on experience with industry tools such as Maya, Substance Painter, and ZBrush.
Experience leading or coordinating a team delivering content at scale.
Experience line managing individuals, including performance reviews, goal setting, and development planning.
A good understanding of production pipelines, scheduling, and working across disciplines.
The ability to balance visual quality with performance and delivery constraints.
Strong artistic judgement, including composition, scale, and visual storytelling.
Clear communication, organisation, and decision making skills.