Directeur.trice Artistique Technique Sénior.e - Personnages/senior Technical Art Director - Characters

Electronic Arts

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Base: $169,500 - $242,600 cad; bonus/equity: not s...
On-site
Technical vision and roadmap for character tools
Character creation pipelines
Python scripting for production tooling
Establish the technical vision and long-term roadmap for character tools and pipelines, ensuring our architecture provides a scalable competitive advantage across multiple important franchises

Job Summary

  • Establish the technical vision and long-term roadmap for character tools and pipelines, ensuring our architecture provides a scalable competitive advantage across multiple important franchises.
  • Work with game team partners and Character artists, animators, and riggers (local and remote) to dig into workflow and production issues and negotiate tradeoffs to deliver practical tooling and pipeline improvements.
  • Experienced technical art leader with 10+ years (or equivalent) who has owned end-to-end design and architecture and can make tradeoffs to deliver.

Matching Summary

Establish the technical vision and long-term roadmap for character tools and pipelines, ensuring our architecture provides a scalable competitive advantage across multiple important franchises.

Salary

Base: $169,500 - $242,600 CAD; Bonus/Equity: Not specified; Benefits: Vacation (3 weeks to start), 10 days sick time, top-up EI/QPIP, extended health/dental/vision, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Technical vision and roadmap for character tools
  • Character creation pipelines
  • Python scripting for production tooling
  • Game engine production experience
  • Generative AI/Machine Learning techniques

Nice-to-have

  • Agility of a startup
  • Global AAA impact
  • Bridging artists and engineers

Key Requirements

  • 10+ years of technical art leadership experience
  • Production experience across DCC workflows (Maya, Houdini, Substance Suite, Blender)
  • Advanced Python scripting skills
  • Experience with Generative AI / Machine Learning
  • Production experience with a game engine
  • Understanding of evolving industry standards (USD, MaterialX, glTF)

Work Rights

Not specified

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