Responsibilities: - Research, define, extend, and maintain production pipelines, processes, and workflows - Interface with stakeholders. Liaise between team members; drive collaborative projects - Identify problems; solve them: invent or build robust, quality technical implementations - Refine and improve artist workflows - Mentor and guide art, FX and lighting team members in areas of expertise; instill best practices - Partner with leads and directors to meet visual and technical standards - Help with optimization efforts by educating team members as well as driving profiling automation and workflows.

Qualifications: - Exceptional problem-solving skills - Ability and willingness to lead small teams in a personnel management capacity - Coach and mentor a team both technically and from a career perspective - Work with external vendors to help create briefs and define technical guidelines - Work effectively in a cross functional team, understanding complex asset dependencies - Experience with shaders, physically based rendering and material authoring pipelines - Excels in Maya - Exceptionally skilled in Substance Designer/Painter - MEL, Python, HLSL scripting knowledge is a plus - Strong organizational skills (pipeline optimization, goal setting, writing documentation, etc.) - Strong ZBrush or Mudbox experience - Experience with organic and inorganic modelling - Frostbite/Unreal experience - 7-10 years or more experience - Education required: completion of high school, some college, vocational training or University or equivalent work experience/training