Art Lead, Avatars and Economy

Come join teams creating genuinely new experiences within virtual reality. This is a rare opportunity to use your artistic talent to help define the look and feel of this medium for a vast audience of participants. Join us in creating the future!Art Lead, Avatars and Economy Responsibilities

• Realize and evolve artistic direction, vision and high production standard in the creation of products within the team in direct collaboration with creative, technical, and product leaders
• Devise and construct technical solutions with 3D Artists,Technical Artist, and Engineers to advance the caliber of Avatars Art
• Communicate art direction goals and technical frameworks at an an executive level to cross functional product and technical partners
• Manage expectations for key stakeholders regarding the execution of quality VR experiences and content. Will need to spend a significant amount of time collaborating with XFN partners, stakeholders and on communication channels
• Regularly meet with art / tech art leads to define art quality standards, direct, and modify production artwork
• Coordinate creative and performance tradeoffs to deliver performant experiences at necessary quality levels

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience to clearly articulate visual vision and align team of multidisciplinary contributors including technical artists, 3D artists, etc., to arrive at the desired visual goal
• Experience to weather change, be flexible with new information or goals and set a positive example through tough challenges
• Interest to drive varied art styles, from realistic to stylized, to bring visual quality within the technical or performance guidelines
• Proven knowledge of art and visual design principles and real-time techniques relating to character pipelines
• Proven organizational skills with the experience to manage multiple projects, set priorities, and meet deadlines and expectations
• Technical understanding of standard game engines such as Unity or Unreal
• Proficient in industry standard art tools such as Photoshop, Maya, Zbrush, Houdini or similar
• Experience collaborating closely on large scale project strategy with other disciplines
• Portfolio demonstrating a keen interest in games and/or VR
• 5+ years industry experience in games or other 3D interactive media
• 5+ years experience as a lead in charge of significant aspects of visual development

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience scaling asset development through OpenUsd composition a plus
• Experience developing modular asset creation pipelines is a plus
• VR development experience is a plus

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