Art Lead, Avatars and Economy in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Summary:

Come join teams creating genuinely new experiences within virtual reality. This is a rare opportunity to use your artistic talent to help define the look and feel of this medium for a vast audience of participants. Join us in creating the future!

Required Skills:

Art Lead, Avatars and Economy Responsibilities:

1. Realize and evolve artistic direction, vision and high production standard in the creation of products within the team in direct collaboration with creative, technical, and product leaders

2. Devise and construct technical solutions with 3D Artists,Technical Artist, and Engineers to advance the caliber of Avatars Art

3. Communicate art direction goals and technical frameworks at an an executive level to cross functional product and technical partners

4. Manage expectations for key stakeholders regarding the execution of quality VR experiences and content. Will need to spend a significant amount of time collaborating with XFN partners, stakeholders and on communication channels

5. Regularly meet with art / tech art leads to define art quality standards, direct, and modify production artwork

6. Coordinate creative and performance tradeoffs to deliver performant experiences at necessary quality levels

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

7. Experience to clearly articulate visual vision and align team of multidisciplinary contributors including technical artists, 3D artists, etc., to arrive at the desired visual goal

8. Experience to weather change, be flexible with new information or goals and set a positive example through tough challenges

9. Interest to drive varied art styles, from realistic to stylized, to bring visual quality within the technical or performance guidelines

10. Proven knowledge of art and visual design principles and real-time techniques relating to character pipelines

11. Proven organizational skills with the experience to manage multiple projects, set priorities, and meet deadlines and expectations

12. Technical understanding of standard game engines such as Unity or Unreal

13. Proficient in industry standard art tools such as Photoshop, Maya, Zbrush, Houdini or similar

14. Experience collaborating closely on large scale project strategy with other disciplines

15. Portfolio demonstrating a keen interest in games and/or VR

16. 5+ years industry experience in games or other 3D interactive media

17. 5+ years experience as a lead in charge of significant aspects of visual development

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

18. Experience scaling asset development through OpenUsd composition a plus

19. Experience developing modular asset creation pipelines is a plus

20. VR development experience is a plus

Public Compensation:

$149,000/year to $205,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity:

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