Responsibilities

📍Support a team of technical artists and technical leads, providing guidance, feedback, education, performance feedback, coaching and mentoring 📍Identify, recruit, interview and hire technical artists 📍Provide creative and technical leadership for innovative digital content solutions 📍Proactively engage with PM, Designer, Eng & Art leads to define art pipeline, workflow and technical avatar product needs. 📍Support artists in building tools for more efficient workflow. 📍Learn constantly, dive into new areas with unfamiliar technologies, and embrace the ambiguity of problem solving in a fast-paced environment 📍Deliver, request, and accept constructive feedback with a positive attitude with objective and accurate feedback 📍Educate team members and partners on digital content best practices and techniques 📍Identify and prioritize digital content needs across project proposals

Minimum Qualifications

📍Extensive experience managing technical artists in games, film or other real-time development 📍Effective communication and presentation skills 📍Interest in empowering teams to produce results 📍Experience with production toolsets and knowledge of 3D Art Tools (e.g. Shotgun, Jira, Trello, Maya, Houdini, Blender, etc.) 📍Experience having supported 3D asset content creation in traditional or unique pipelines through tool development and/or character development 📍Communication and leadership skills to support a team working in an ambiguous environment 📍Technical art and problem-solving skills – understand the underlying technology and tools necessary to power an advanced avatar system 📍Collaboration skills with an experience explaining complex concepts in an easy to understand way 📍Proven track record of professional content development, including shipping one or more products using digital content creation tools 📍Experience with game optimization techniques. 📍Experience with Python, C#, or C++ in a 3D application or game engine

Preferred Qualifications

📍Knowledge of emerging technologies 📍Experience in game engines such as Unreal or Unity 📍Experience working with Virtual Reality. 📍Familiar with popular open source projects like USD