Principal Visual Artist

Role Overview

What You'll Do

• Lead visual direction through concepts, style frames, and visual references.
• Define visual language, tone, and quality standards across projects.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of artists.
• Produce concept, illustration, texture, iconography, UI, and graphic assets.
• Model, UV, texture, rig, and animate 3D assets within real-time budgets.
• Create motion references and effects concepts for technical implementation.
• Ensure clean creative handoffs and iterate based on in-engine behavior.
• Shape workflows, asset pipelines, and production standards as the team scales.

What We're Looking For

• A multidisciplinary portfolio spanning concept art, illustration, texture and surface work, 3D modeling, and asset production.
• Proven experience leading visual direction on features or projects.
• Experience leading, mentoring, or growing artists on a team.
• Strong visual development skills, including style frames, mood boards, colour theory, and composition.
• Proficiency in Blender or an equivalent tool for 3D modeling, UV layout, texturing, rigging, and animation.
• Strong 2D skills in Photoshop, Illustrator, or an equivalent tool.
• Understanding of real-time asset constraints and runtime performance.
• Collaborative communication, clean handoffs, and openness to technical feedback.

Bonus Skills

• Game development or real-time engine asset production experience is highly preferred.
• Motion design or animated asset production experience is advantageous.
• Familiarity with glTF pipelines and runtime-ready exports is advantageous.
• Shader authoring or shader-tool experience is advantageous.

Compensation

• The NYC base salary range is $180,000 to $225,000 USD.
• The USA remote base salary range is $155,520 to $194,400 USD.
• Ranges represent base pay and exclude short-term and long-term incentive compensation.

Workplace

• The description provides a New York City salary range and a separate USA remote salary range.