Principal Visual Artist

🔥 3 hours ago

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $155.5k - $194.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

✨ Principal

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Fanatics

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10,000+ employees

🛍️ eCommerce

🛒 Retail

⚽ Sports

💰 $700M Private Equity Round - Fanatics on 2022-12

eCommerce • Retail • Sports

Fanatics is a global sports merchandise and commerce company that designs, produces, and sells licensed sports apparel, memorabilia and fan gear. The company operates a large e-commerce and retail platform that partners with professional leagues, teams, and brands, and runs business units focused on merchandising operations and technology (e. g. , Fanatics ONE), brand protection, and a global footprint to serve fans worldwide. Fanatics emphasizes enhancing the fan experience, corporate responsibility, and investor relations.

📋 Description

• Lead the visual direction of features and projects, translating creative vision into clear production direction through concepts, style frames, and visual references • Define and maintain the visual language, tone, and quality standard across all output as the team and portfolio grow • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of artists, providing feedback, direction, and career development support • Produce concept, illustration, and 2D art assets (textures, surface detail, iconography, UI elements, graphic work) that integrate into 3D and interactive environments • Model, UV, texture, rig, and animate 3D assets to production standard, working within defined real-time budgets • Use motion and animation tools to produce motion references and effects concepts that guide technical implementation • Collaborate closely with the wider creative team to ensure clean, well-structured handoff for runtime, iterating based on how art behaves in-engine • Shape art production workflows, asset pipelines, and standards as the team scales.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience leading visual direction on features or projects • A portfolio that spans disciplines: concept and illustration, texture and surface work, 3D modelling, and asset production • Experience leading, mentoring, or growing artists on a team • Strong visual development skills: style frames, mood boards, colour theory, and composition thinking • Proficiency in Blender (or equivalent) for 3D modelling, UV layout, texturing, rigging, and animation • Strong 2D skills in Photoshop, Illustrator, or equivalent, with a focus on texture creation, graphic design, and illustrative work • Understanding of real-time asset constraints: poly budgets, texture resolution and atlasing, material complexity, and what makes assets performant at runtime • A collaborative approach: you hand off cleanly, communicate constraints clearly, and take technical feedback without friction.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development • Stock options • Equipment allowances