Technical Art Director Unity Job in Play Games24x7

Responsibilities include:

• Manage and help build a team that works together smoothly and collaborates well with external partners
• Guide, provide constant support, and mentor technical artists. Play a key role in their career development.
• Ensure team productivity: assign, organize, and prioritize the work within his team
• Help construct a credible road map to reach target dates
• Work closely with HR recruitment and producers to identify, hire, and grow promising candidates in your area of expertise

Gatekeeper of a solid bridge between art and tech teams

• Understand art direction requirements and convert them to new features and improvements
• Have regular sync-ups with the tech direction and art direction to align on options, choices and priorities
• Be proactive by foreseeing problems and technical needs
• Work closely with Rendering, Engine, Tools, and Art teams to ensure requirements are properly prioritized
• Foster inter-team coordination. Help coordinate communication between groups and achieve consensus for the requirements necessary to ship a high quality title.
• Establish an open communication with your peers on the project

Owner of the art technologies, tools, pipelines and budgets

• Test and confirm that the intended techniques are possible with the tools chosen. Validate the quality of the product with the Art Director and Lead Programmer.
• Produce a technical reference and/ or technical constraints document, keep it current, and communicate it for the team s guidance
• Assure the homogeneity of the technical quality throughout the game
• Propose and create the right tools to accelerate certain procedural tasks
• Be the gatekeeper of the budget, stability and performance of the art

Look out for innovation

• Network with other experts to benchmark solutions used on the project
• Provide insights and value add to the project and group

Minimum Job Qualifications:

• Successful work experience as an Unity Technical Art Director at least for 2 3 years.
• Experience on a full game lifecycle, from early concept through launch as a technical art director.
• Experience on a popular mobile mid-core genre game is a big plus
• Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written
• Good knowledge of programming languages such as C++, C#.
• Strong knowledge in popular DCC scripting languages like Python, MEL and MAXscript.
• Knowledge in computer architecture.
• Strong understanding of 2D and 3D math concepts.
• Experience in writing shaders languages such as HSHL, CGFX and other shading languages.
• Strong knowledge in game engine rendering pipelines.
• Performance profiling and optimization across various hardware platforms
• Collaborate with engineers in driving visual rendering advancement feature rule-set, standards and implementation using proprietary in-house engines.
• Detailed knowledge of the technical constraints of engines and the different game platforms
• A portfolio demonstrating above mentioned skills, preferably on mobile platforms
• Knowledge of 2D and 3D DCC tools
• Knowledge of asset management and version control systems
• In-depth knowledge of the jobs required to produce a AAA Games & Top grossing / Top rated mobile Casual Games
• Willingness to take responsibility in making decisions, the ability to voice constructive criticism
• Experience in managing a team of artists is a plus
• Experience in developing mini-game concepts is a plus