This role involves an experienced Environment Art Lead joining the Rocket League team at Epic Games. The individual will work closely with the Art Director to define, maintain, and enhance the visual quality of Rocket League's environments, ensuring a balance of realism, readability, and performance. The role requires leading and collaborating with multidisciplinary artists and external partners to deliver high-quality 3D environments. It demands a strong combination of artistic vision, technical expertise, and leadership skills, with a proven track record in shipping games with realistic 3D environments and managing outsourcing pipelines. The Lead will guide execution, review work, and ensure visual cohesion and performance of environments. Epic Games prides itself on a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment, constantly innovating in engine and game development.
Define and drive the Environment Art vision for Rocket League while respecting visual pillars.,Partner with Discipline Leads, Production, and Outsource teams for efficient, quality content delivery.,Translate high-level direction into clear, actionable 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.,Oversee large outsourcing pipelines, including asset briefs, reviews, feedback, and quality control.,Collaborate closely with Designers to support core game loops.,Grow, mentor, and lead teams with clarity and empathy.,Responsible for end-to-end environment development with internal teams and external partners.
Strong understanding of environment art for games (realistic architecture, natural landscapes, integration of manmade and organic elements).,Demonstrated experience overseeing large outsourcing pipelines across multiple vendors.,Experience collaborating closely with Designers.,Experience shipping at least one commercial game with realistic 3D environments across multiple platforms (console, PC), ideally live or long-running titles.,Deep understanding of performance, optimization, and memory trade-offs, with a practical approach to scalability and asset reuse.,Strong technical art knowledge, including workflows, tooling, and content integration for PBR and Photogrammetry pipelines.,Excellent grasp of art fundamentals, composition, lighting, color theory, scale, and visual appeal.,Experience as a Lead responsible for end-to-end environment development.
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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