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Xsolla

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2005

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Xsolla is a company specializing in game commerce solutions. It provides tools and services that empower video game developers to monetize, distribute, and fund their games, helping them to increase revenue at any stage of development. Xsolla offers a wide range of solutions such as customizable web shops, payment processing, fraud prevention, and social packages to enhance player engagement. With over 19 years of experience in the video game industry, Xsolla collaborates with developers and publishers globally to manage compliance, taxes, and operational complexities, allowing them to focus on connecting with their players. Their services are designed to work with popular game development platforms like Unity, Unreal, and Cocos Creator, supporting a wide array of local payment methods worldwide.

📋 Description

• Lead the creation of high-quality environments from concept through final implementation • Establish and maintain the visual quality bar for environments while ensuring technical and performance requirements are met • Create optimized environment assets, including modular kits, architecture, terrain, props, materials, and set dressing • Work closely with Technical Artists, Level Designers, Lighting Artists, and Engineers to balance visual quality with performance • Define and maintain environment art pipelines, workflows, and technical standards • Identify and resolve performance issues related to geometry, materials, textures, lighting, draw calls, memory usage, LODs, and asset complexity • Review and provide feedback on the work of Environment Artists and support their professional development • Collaborate with Art Direction to translate the artistic vision into scalable and technically achievable environments • Participate in profiling and optimization throughout production rather than treating optimization as a final-stage task

🎯 Requirements

• Strong professional experience as a Senior or Lead Environment Artist in game development • Excellent portfolio demonstrating visually compelling, production-ready environments • Strong understanding of real-time optimization and ability to make informed trade-offs between visual fidelity and performance • Advanced knowledge of environment production pipelines, modular workflows, LODs, materials, shaders, texture optimization, and asset budgets • Strong proficiency with industry-standard 3D tools • Experience working in Unreal Engine and/or Unity • Good understanding of lighting, composition, scale, color, and environmental storytelling • Ability to profile environments, identify technical bottlenecks, and collaborate with technical teams to resolve them • Leadership and mentoring experience, with ability to provide clear and constructive artistic and technical feedback • Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited Flexible Time Off • Personalized career roadmap for each employee • Professional development through training and educational opportunities • Support for physical, mental, and emotional well-being through a comprehensive Benefits Program