Director, Technical Art

Job Description

ART
What We Do
Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
What You'll Do
Epic Games is seeking a Technical Art Director to help run our tools and performance-oriented technical art team. You'll build tools, pipelines, and rendering solutions that empower artists to create beautiful, efficient, and scalable content in Unreal Engine.
In this role, you will
• Oversee a team of dedicated tools and performance-oriented tech artists, maintaining scheduling, tasking priority, and facilitating communication with various departments.
• Lead teams to develop new tools/processes for finding optimization opportunities and actioning on them within a continuously growing content library and code base
• Driving complex initiatives based on emerging performance, tooling, and development needs
• Create new paradigms for budgeting content to support diverse game modes and platforms.
• Plan and execute tools to support artist workflows in Unreal Engine 5
• Advise and demonstrate proper rendering techniques to bring visual parity across all platforms in an affordable way. Includes in-depth knowledge of rendering pipelines, material creation, lighting, and post-processing
• Work closely with engineering and art owners of many different parts of the ecosystem to promote collaboration and reduce duplicate work
What we're looking for
• Proven experience leading or directing technical art for real-time projects across multi-platform pipelines
• Deep understanding of Unreal Engine's rendering pipeline, materials, and profiling tools
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across disciplines
• Ability to mentor and grow technical art teams, fostering both creative and technical excellence
• Experienced in programming theory and scripting (i.e., Python)
• Experience not only in the analysis of profiling data (i.e., PIX, Insights), but also proactive in capturing performance data to find optimization opportunities and gains

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-8675kx-216-73-216-222-42 in your application.