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Artistic Team Lead, Environments (R27210)

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Description

Epic Games is seeking an experienced Artistic Team Lead for Environments to join the Rocket League team. This role involves collaborating closely with the Art Director to define, maintain, and enhance the visual quality of Rocket League's worlds, balancing realism, readability, and performance. The lead will guide multidisciplinary artists and external partners to deliver high-quality, large-scale environments, requiring a strong mix of artistic vision, technical depth, and leadership. Responsibilities include understanding the game's artistic direction, guiding execution, reviewing work, and ensuring the team delivers visually consistent, performant, and appealing environments.

What We're Looking For

Demonstrate creativity in defining and advancing the artistic vision for Rocket League environments, adhering to established visual pillars.,Collaborate with discipline leads, production, and outsourcing teams for efficient content delivery.,Translate high-level directions into clear guidelines for internal teams and external partners.,Support the Art Director through reviews, early feedback, and ensuring team alignment.,Represent the Art Director in multidisciplinary meetings, reviews, and planning discussions as needed.

Ideal Candidate

Strong understanding of environmental art for games, including realistic structures, natural landscapes, and the integration of structural and organic elements.,Demonstrated experience in overseeing large-scale outsourcing processes, including drafting specifications, reviews, feedback, and quality control with multiple vendors.,Experience collaborating closely with designers to support core gameplay loops.,Strong drive and ability to advance, mentor, and lead teams with clarity and empathy.,Experience leading to the delivery of at least one commercial game with realistic 3D environments on multiple platforms (consoles and PC), ideally live service titles (Unreal Engine experience is a plus).,Deep understanding of performance, optimization, and memory trade-offs, with a practical approach to asset growth and reuse.,Strong knowledge in technical art, including workflows, tools, and content integration for PBR and photogrammetry pipelines.,Excellent mastery of artistic fundamentals: composition, lighting, color theory, scale, and visual appeal.,Experience as a team lead responsible for the complete development of environments, including managing internal teams and external partners.,Developed collaborative spirit, humble management approach, and a sure instinct for what makes environments fun.

Hard Skills

Environmental Art
3D Environments
Outsourcing Management
Unreal Engine (asset)
PBR Pipelines
Photogrammetry Pipelines
Composition
Lighting
Color Theory
Game Optimization
Performance Trade-offs
Asset Growth
Asset Reuse

Soft Skills

Leadership
Mentoring
Empathy
Collaboration
Humble Management
Artistic Vision
Technical Depth
Problem-Solving
Communication
Instinct for fun environments

Benefits

100% company-paid health benefits premiums (medical, dental, vision) for employees and dependents
Critical illness coverage
Telemedicine
Life insurance
Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
Long-term disability insurance
Weekly indemnity (short-term disability)
Retirement savings plan with competitive employer contribution
Employee assistance program
Extensive mental well-being program (Modern Health: free therapy and coaching services)

About the Company

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Epic Games, Inc.

Epic Games is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company is best known for developing the Unreal Engine, the globally popular game Fortnite, and operating the Epic Games Store digital storefront.

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