Epic Games is seeking an experienced Environment Art Lead for the Rocket League team. This role involves partnering with the Art Director to define, maintain, and enhance the visual quality of Rocket League's environments, balancing realism, readability, and performance. The lead will guide multidisciplinary artists and external partners to deliver high-quality environments, requiring a blend of artistic vision, technical expertise, and leadership skills. The role also includes understanding world direction, guiding execution, reviewing work, and ensuring visual cohesion and performance of environments.
Define and drive the Environment Art vision for Rocket League while adhering to visual pillars.,Partner with Discipline Leads, Production, and Outsource teams for efficient and quality content delivery.,Translate high-level direction into clear guidance for internal and external teams.,Support the Art Director through reviews, early feedback, and team alignment.,Represent the Art Director in cross-discipline meetings, reviews, and planning discussions when necessary.,Strong understanding of environment art for games, including realistic architecture, natural landscapes, and integration of manmade/organic elements.,Demonstrated experience overseeing large outsourcing pipelines (asset briefs, reviews, feedback, quality control).,Experience collaborating with Designers to support core game loops.,Strong desire and ability to grow, mentor, and lead teams with clarity and empathy.,Experience shipping at least one commercial game with realistic 3D environments across multiple platforms (console, PC), ideally live or long-running titles (Unreal Engine experience a plus).,Deep understanding of performance, optimization, and memory trade-offs, with a practical approach to scalability and asset reuse.,Strong technical art knowledge (workflows, tooling, content integration for PBR and Photogrammetry pipelines).,Excellent grasp of art fundamentals (composition, lighting, color theory, scale, visual appeal).,Experience as a Lead responsible for end-to-end environment development (internal teams and external partners).,Highly collaborative mindset, low-ego leadership style, and strong instincts for what makes environments fun.
Experience shipping at least one commercial game with realistic 3D environments, across multiple platforms (console and PC), ideally on live or long-running titles.,Unreal Engine experience is a plus.,Experience as a Lead responsible for end-to-end environment development, including internal teams and external partners.
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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