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About the Role

Clipwire Games is seeking a Lead Technical Artist to enhance the visual quality and performance of their live mobile bingo games. This autonomous role involves driving technical decisions and collaborating with art, product, and development teams to manage shaders, UI, tooling, and content pipelines, ensuring high visual quality and mobile performance.

Responsibilities

• Own UI implementation in Unity, including building and maintaining UGUI screens, prefabs, layouts, and animations.
• Manage end-to-end asset integration: import, configure, and hook up sprites, atlases, Spine animations, and VFX.
• Create and maintain mobile-friendly UI and sprite shaders and UGUI effects.
• Develop editor tooling and pipeline automation for faster and safer content work.
• Manage performance budgets across live products, including frame time, draw calls, memory, and startup time.
• Set and enforce technical-art standards, reviewing shader and tooling contributions.
• Serve as the escalation point for complex technical-art issues.
• Collaborate with Art Director and Technical Director on long-term technical-art strategy.
• Manage art content in source control using Perforce and Git.
• Lead the Technical Art team, setting priorities, reviewing work, and supporting career development.
• Mentor artists and technical artists on technical workflows.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical art experience in games, with shipped mobile titles.
• Strong proficiency in Unity, including UGUI/Canvas system, prefabs, Animator, and Particle System.
• Deep expertise in Shader Graph and HLSL, including authoring custom, mobile-friendly UI and sprite shaders.
• Advanced knowledge of Unity's asset pipeline, including Addressables, importer presets, and AssetPostprocessors.
• Strong editor scripting skills in C# (custom inspectors, editor windows, validation suites, build hooks).
• Deep understanding of mobile rendering fundamentals: draw call batching, SRP batcher, overdraw, texture compression, and memory budgets.
• Hands-on experience profiling and optimizing with Unity Profiler, Frame Debugger, and memory analysis tools.
• Clear, structured communication of technical decisions and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ownership over medium to large technical-art initiatives.
• Ability to balance delivery speed with craft, performance, and long-term maintainability.
• A portfolio, demo reel, or examples of tech art work.

Skills

• Unity
• UGUI/Canvas system
• Prefabs
• Animator
• Particle System
• Shader Graph
• HLSL
• Addressables
• AssetPostprocessors
• C#
• Editor scripting
• Unity Profiler
• Frame Debugger
• Perforce
• Git

Location

• Toronto

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Lead
• 5+ years

Salary/Compensations

• CAD $80,000–$120,000

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health & Wellness Coverage
• Wellness Spending Account ($500 annually)
• Generous Vacation Time (25 days annually)
• Paid Volunteer Days (2 days annually)
• Parental Leave & Family Support
• RRSP Matching (100% up to 3.5% of annual salary)
• Employee Recognition Program ($400 award)
• Charitable Donation Matching (up to $1,000 annually)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Complimentary breakfast, lunch and evening snacks on office days
• Team Events & Celebrations
• Professional Development opportunities

About the Company

• Tripledot Studios is one of the largest independent mobile games companies globally, with over 2,500 employees across 12 studios and a portfolio of successful titles engaging millions of daily active users.
• Clipwire Games, a Tripledot studio, is a top-grossing mobile game developer in Canada, known for titles like Monopoly: Bingo! and Bingo Story. The studio emphasizes strong values, work ethic, and data-driven growth, fostering a supportive environment for team development and innovation.

Equal Opportunity

• Tripledot Studios is an equal-opportunity employer committed to inclusion and diversity. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status, or other legally protected characteristics.
• AI-enabled tools may be used for note-taking and summarizing conversations during the interview process, but all candidate evaluations and hiring decisions are made by people.