Environment Lead

You will lead a team of talented environment artists and level designers, and will be part of a studio that works with passion and ambition, to build games that are truly unforgettable.

What you will do

• Plan, oversee, guide and direct the entire environment creation process.
• Design, build, and iterate on environments hands-on, translating gameplay and creative direction into compelling spaces that deliver an exceptional player experience.
• Uphold and advocate for high quality across your teams work.
• Ensure complex and high-impact challenges are identified early, assigned appropriately, and resolved effectively.
• Lead hiring, onboarding, and training of new talent for your team.
• Set clear expectations, give actionable feedback, manage performance, and develop team members.
• Establish and continually improve the pipelines, workflows, and standards used by your team to increase efficiency and quality.
• Drive innovation in environment art by researching, experimenting with, and integrating new tools and industry practices.
• Collaborate with developers to design, implement and maintain internal tools that improve environment and level design workflows.
• Drive consistency and collaboration across departments and organizational processes.
• Collaborate closely with other department leads during project execution to ensure environment is cohesive with game direction.

Within 1 month, you will…

• Get onboarded to team tools, workflows, and pipelines and familiarize yourself with our team structure, leadership, and stakeholders.
• Meet and build relationships with studio leadership and cross-functional leads to understand their expectations and quality standards.
• Meet and build relationships with all members of the environment team to understand how to lead and support them.
• Review existing environment pipelines, tools, and documentation to identify how work currently flows from concept to final implementation.
• Proactively play content created by the studio to connect with the impact of your work.

Within 3 months, you will…

• Actively manage the workload and assign tasks to your team members.
• Enforce quality standards for environment art across active projects.
• Set clear expectations and provide actionable feedback to team members.
• Identify early risks, capability gaps, or bottlenecks in the current environment pipeline and propose initial solutions.

Within 6 months, you will…

• Have implemented measurable improvements to pipelines, workflows, or tools that increase team efficiency and quality.
• Champion the environment team in cross-functional discussions, driving initiatives that improve collaboration and production quality.
• Be recognized as the primary owner of environment quality and craft standards, with a track record of resolving complex, high-impact challenges.

Requirements

• A strong eye for environment design and understanding of visual composition, architecture, shaping, proportions, and color theory.
• A willingness to adapt to workflows integrated with creative direction and game design, with a proven ability to execute environments based on gameplay and design requirements.
• A clear understanding of how environments impact the player experience and the importance of good level design.
• Experience managing, hiring, and mentoring a small team of contributors.
• Ability to break down complex goals into clear tasks, balance team workloads, track progress, and deliver on time.
• Extensive experience with building tools such as FAWE, VoxelSniper, or similar.
• Skill in collaborating with cross-functional teams and iterating quickly based on feedback and testing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions and present clearly to both internal and external stakeholders.

If you don't see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed above, we still encourage you to reach out, apply, and tell us more about yourself in your application. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We are committed to creating a more equitable, inclusive, and diverse company, and we strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientations, and life experiences to apply.

What we offer

• 45.760€ - 56.160€ gross per annum, based on 40 hours per week as an employee.
• Standard 24 days PTO (plus Bank Holidays).
• Generous paid sick leave (varies per country).
• Clear career growth and progression opportunities within the company.
• Flexible working hours within legal and reasonable boundaries.
• Employment is currently available in Germany, the UK, Ireland, Austria, and Canada with the US and Croatia following soon. Rate and benefits will differ based on local currency.
• Fixed-term contractor arrangements available outside of employment countries. Not all benefits apply to contractors.

Additional information

• Applicants must be older than 18 years old.
• Commitment of 40 hours per week.
• Fully remote.

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