Lead Level Artist

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

🎮 Gaming

👥 B2C

Gaming • Entertainment • B2C

Cloud Chamber is a collaborative team of inspired minds who create games together. As the studio behind the next entry in the critically acclaimed BioShock series, Cloud Chamber focuses on crafting unique, engaging, and thoughtful video game experiences. With locations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Montreal, they boast a diverse team of veteran developers and passionate game makers committed to innovation and excellence in interactive entertainment.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of artists responsible for compelling, stylized, high-quality level art and immersive world-building • Partner with Art Leads to manage, mentor, and inspire World Builders and Level Artists • Collaborate with the Art Director, Associate Art Director, and other Leads to ensure artistic consistency across the project • Collaborate with Design and Narrative Leads to create immersive, believable environments • Design and improve modular architectural systems for levels • Provide objective, empathetic feedback and establish realistic development schedules • Manage day-to-day activities of the World Art Team • Mentor and manage artists’ career growth and development • Create and manage asset lists with internal and external partner teams • Coordinate workflow, support interdisciplinary communication, and facilitate efficient game-world building • Collaborate across design, art, engineering, animation, and audio teams to deliver a world-class AAA experience • Stay current on technological advancements and identify solutions to developmental obstacles

🎯 Requirements

• 7 or more years of experience in internal game development with an emphasis on environmental art or level architecture • At least 2 shipped titles; UE5/UE4 preferred; one shipped title in a leadership capacity; AAA titles preferred • Prior experience leading other artists and managing their career growth, goal-setting, and overall job performance • Ability to communicate and collaborate across multiple disciplines and locations clearly and effectively • Knowledge of current industry-standard tools: 3D Studio Max / Maya, ZBrush, Substance, Photoshop, etc. • Recent use of industry-standard game editors; UE5 preferred • Experience with industry-standard asset management tools • Ability to support, inspire, and elevate team capabilities • Knowledge of classic drawing and/or painting techniques, with ability to sketch ideas on paper • Solid awareness and sense of spatial composition and proportions • Understanding of basic architecture • Comfortable working in an iterative design environment • Strong and empathetic leadership with proven mentoring skills and a track record supporting high-functioning teams • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Experience working in cross-disciplinary teams • Persistence, self-motivation, and a proactive mindset • Ability to maintain effectiveness and quality under pressure, ambiguity, and changing priorities • Ability to build trust-based relationships and navigate organizational complexity with tact and emotional intelligence • Openness to feedback and direction, desire to learn new skills, and ability to produce quality revisions • Strong ownership, autonomy, attention to detail, organization, and high quality standards • For candidates located in Quebec: professional proficiency in both French and English; English required for collaboration with U.S. teams and international partners and for specialized technical documentation

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer committed to reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities • Reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment

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