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About the Role

As a Senior Technical Artist, Tools & Pipeline, you will shape the creative engine that powers our teams by defining and elevating end-to-end workflows across disciplines. You will be a strategic partner to artists, Technical Art, and Engineering, evaluating tools and pipelines, clarifying production requirements, and ensuring our workflows enable creativity at scale. Your work will directly impact how ideas move from concept to shipped content, empowering multiple teams to operate efficiently in parallel production streams.

Responsibilities

Define and level up the end-to-end workflow for our many creative disciplines, such as Character Art, Animation, Environment Art, Audio, and VFX
Collaborate with Technical Art and Engineering partners to support artist needs, including evaluating tools and workflows, and communicating requirements for production.
Help stand up and maintain scalable artist tools and workflows to support multiple teams in parallel production streams.
Provide technical support to artists working from our art workflows, collecting data to further improve the tools they are using, making recommendations and improvements where necessary
Be an active member of the Tech Art community within Riot, participate in craft-focused meetings and events, and actively mentor for other Technical Artists in their craft
Build close relationships with artists and engineers to understand needs, identify pain points, and help guide workflow, pipeline, and system improvements.
Spread knowledge of the team’s processes through documentation and help teams expand their technical know-how
Consistently give and take constructive feedback, direct next steps, and communicate clear goals and outcomes to your team

Requirements

6+ years of professional experience as a technical artist in games or related industries.
Professional experience in content creation and tool development for DCC tools, with particular emphasis on Autodesk Maya and Substance Suite workflows.
Professional experience working in Unreal Engine 5.
Highly proficient in Python tool development, with a particular focus on building scalable, maintainable, and high-performance tools for a variety of artist use-cases.
Professional experience with modern UI frameworks such as PySide & PyQt.
Strong understanding of art workflows and the ability to translate artistic needs into technical requirements.
Highly proficient communication skills and capacity to act as an ambassador between art and engineering.
Superb critical thinking skills, particularly as it pertains to translating artistic requirements to sustainable workflow design; proactive, responsible, and comfortable owning ambiguous or evolving problem spaces.

Skills

Python tool development
PySide & PyQt
Unreal Engine 5
Autodesk Maya
Substance Suite workflows
C++
UMG
Houdini
Blender
ZBrush
3DS Max
Adobe Creative Suite
UI/UX design
front-end development
Qt/PyQt
character rigging
animation pipelines
AI-assisted workflows

Location

Sydney

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Benefits

Open paid time off policy
Paid parental leave
Flexible work schedules
Co-op gaming areas
Play fund
Snacks
Medical Insurance that covers you and your dependents
Employee Assistance Program
Wellness fund
Donation matching of time and money to registered charities
Learning and Development opportunities

About the Company

At Riot, we believe in putting players first.
Our mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player.
We’re better when we work together.
Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday.