At Wizards of the Coast, we connect people around the world through play and imagination. From our genre defining games like Magic: The Gathering® and Dungeons &amp; Dragons® to our growing multiverse, we continue to innovate and build new ways to foster friendship and connection. That’s where you come in.
We are looking for an experienced, inventive Art Director to join the leadership team of our New IP Studio to help us build a new, digital game-centered franchise. This role will be responsible for driving the overall visual style and tone for the project. Our world is vibrant, fun, and full of energy. Dark themes are great for other games, but our AD must love color and thrive on telling the story of the world with iconic silhouettes and minimalistic adornment. They will build the game art team as the studio grows, identify staffing and other art needs, and orchestrate creative solutions that help us meet our goal of crafting an amazing new game and world.
This person will have strong skills in driving concept and reference art, in both 2D and 3D, together with a deep understanding of technical pipelines and familiarity with optimizing and implementing art assets for game engines. The AD will also be a key contributor to the growth, culture, and ultimate success of the studio!
<h2>What you'll do:</h2>
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<li>Work with other creative leaders on the team to create the vision and overall tone for our new game.</li>
<li>Develop the visual look and feel of the world, balancing gameplay clarity with an original, ownable style that can be translated to various media.</li>
<li>Build a team of artists, working with the Creative Manager to supplement internal art staff with freelancers and/or potential contract studio partners as needed.</li>
<li>Establish a unified vision for teams of internal and external artists producing 2D, 3D and VFX assets for games on multiple platforms.</li>
<li>Drive the creation of art and ensure that the vision is maintained and that artists have clear benchmarks for asset production.</li>
<li>Define the quality bar for asset creation and outsourced art.</li>
<li>Find artistic solutions which balance creative vision with production realities.</li>
<li>Review artists’ work and give feedback to ensure that quality expectations are met.</li>
<li>Collaborate with technical artists, designers and programmers to develop efficient and productive art pipelines and establish metrics which ensure artistic goals are met within technical performance targets.</li>
<li>Produce assets to inspire and define art direction; mood videos, image mockups, etc.</li>
<li>Keep yourself and the team informed about the latest advances in game art technique and technology</li>
<li>Be an active mentor, leader and role model for the art team</li>
<li>Work to maintain morale and create an atmosphere of creativity and enthusiasm.</li>
<li>Be actively involved with recruitment, vetting candidates, performing interviews</li>
</ul>
<h2>What you'll bring:</h2>
<ul>
<li>At least one shipped title as an Art Director, and five or more years at a Senior Level or above.</li>
<li>Excellent communication skills (spoken and written).</li>
<li>Positive influence and leadership skills - Motivates and encourages others to generate new ideas.</li>
<li>Experience with early phase project development and ideation.</li>
<li>Strong portfolio demonstrating a high level of artistic creativity in one or more game art disciplines.</li>
<li>Expert knowledge of industry standard art and animation programs.</li>
<li>Proven ability to balance aesthetics with performance and usability.</li>
<li>College Degree in art, animation, video game development or equivalent experience.</li>
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<h2>We are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer</h2>
The above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for satisfactory performance in this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of the duties, responsibilities, or requirements of the position.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you are selected to move forward in our application process and need to request an accommodation, please let your recruiter or coordinator know.

At Wizards of the Coast, we connect people around the world through play and imagination. From our genre defining games like Magic: The Gathering® and Dungeons &amp; Dragons® to our growing multiverse, we continue to innovate and build new ways to foster friendship and connection. That’s where you come in!
<h2>VFX Artist Role</h2>
We are seeking an experienced, proactive VFX Artist to build industry-leading visual effects for our games. You will combine technical proficiency and superb aesthetic sensibilities to bring the world of Magic: the Gathering to life! The VFX Artist utilizes a variety of tools to build performant and beautiful effects. You will collaborate with other artists, animators, and UX designers to deftly balance visual direction with the information needs of the game.
<h2>What You'll Do:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Work with designers and engineers to define, clarify, and visualize asset requirements for everything from individual features to entire game VFX style guides.</li>
<li>Build original particle systems, game piece animations, shaders, models and ambient scene assets that combined together form outstanding VFX. Invent unforgettable experiences for players that dazzle even after hundreds of viewings!</li>
<li>Develop visual benchmarks to ensure you are making a unique and remarkable user experience.</li>
<li>Collaborate with technical artists and art leads to define game asset priorities, and to build and implement VFX pipelines.</li>
<li>Work with the Art Director to lead the vision for VFX assets, adapting them to both the needs of development iteration and live game feature addition and change.</li>
<li>Innovate on new asset types that merge appealing visualizations with sophisticated information designs for information dense games.</li>
<li>Optimize game assets and implementation as needed for both performance and platform specialization.</li>
</ul>
<h2>What You'll Bring:</h2>
<ul>
<li>3+ years as a VFX Artist for realtime games, or equivalent experience.</li>
<li>Love for games and game development.</li>
<li>A dazzling portfolio of VFX creations.</li>
<li>Strong drive for artistic growth and maintaining currency with evolving technology.</li>
<li>Experience in balancing conflicting priorities of visual quality, CPU and memory performance, and development time, to produce the best results for the project.</li>
<li>Proficiency in animation and art fundamentals.</li>
<li>Skill at shader creation and optimization, 3D modeling in Maya, and texture painting in Photoshop.</li>
<li>Strong understanding of asset integration and management with Unity.</li>
<li>Self-motivated and excellent time management.</li>
<li>Outstanding problem solving skills in devising imaginative and efficient visual solutions for design challenges.</li>
<li>Great communication and collaboration skills.</li>
</ul>
<h2>We are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer</h2>
The above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for satisfactory performance in this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of the duties, responsibilities, or requirements of the position.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you are selected to move forward in our application process and need to request an accommodation, please let your recruiter or coordinator know.

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						<div><div>Job Duties</div> Responsible for the design and creation of 3-D graphics for interactive computer video games. Incorporate advanced graphic design techniques (including sculpting, rigging, and scripting) as well as blocking, and staging focused around interactive video game development that contribute to concepts, prototypes, textures, props, architecture, characters, and other graphic artwork using Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Maya, Motion Builder and other internally developed graphic art and animation tools. Use sophisticated graphic, artistic, technical, and design skills to contribute to the development of aesthetically pleasing computer-generated designs that incorporate engaging gameplay that is consistent with the overall design and art style of the products while adhering to the parameters and constraints of the game and movie engine technology. Work cooperatively with other team members including programmers, artists, writers, game designers, and sound engineers to construct and integrate the various art elements and components used in the construction of Valve products.<div>Job Requirements</div>Bachelors Degree in Graphic Design, Digital Design, Computer Animation, New Media, or a directly related field or the foreign degree equivalent, and 6 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the development of 3D graphics for use in video games and/or feature films. Experience must include:</div><ul><li>2 years of experience in a lead or senior animator position</li><li>2 years of experience collaborating with engineers to design and build animation tools for proprietary software, Unity, or Unreal</li></ul>Must also have worked as an animator on at least 2 shipped AAA video games and/or feature films. Experience may be gained concurrently. Position with Valve Corporation located in Bellevue, Washington. 					</div>
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							<div>What We Offer</div>
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																		<li>An organization where 100% of time is dedicated as groups see fit</li>
																			<li>The opportunity to collaborate with experts across a range of disciplines</li>
																			<li>A work environment and flexible schedule in support of families and domestic partnerships</li>
																			<li>A culture eager to become stronger through diversity of all forms</li>
																			<li>Exceptional health insurance coverage</li>
																			<li>Unrivaled employer match for our 401(k) retirement plan</li>
																			<li>Generous vacation and family leave</li>
																			<li>On-site amenities in support of health and efficiency</li>
																			<li>Fertility and adoption assistance</li>
																			<li>Reimbursement for child care during interviews</li>
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 <h2>Role description</h2>
 The opportunity
The Unity Strategic Technology team is a group of highly skilled Software and Technical Art developers having a solid understanding of the Unity platform. We collaborate with R&amp;D teams in order to hone and bring back technologies into Unity.
As our top-tiered developers also assist external teams solving exciting and ambitious problems, we are looking for self-motivated teammates that will nicely complement our skillset and who are passionate about video games, related technical domains and their work.
What you’ll be doing
<ul>
<li>Join a growing multidisciplinary team of developers contributing to improve our Unity platform</li>
<li>Participate in exciting internal or external project evaluations with a focus on performance and quality</li>
<li>Improve customer success by honing, architecting and developing new technologies based on real cases experiences</li>
<li>Build up relationships with Unity’s various R&amp;D teams and capture domain specific skills</li>
<li>Provide fierce feedback Unity's future technologies</li>
</ul>
What we’re looking for
<ul>
<li>Game developer industry standard skill set that can plan tasks efficiently, develop as well as profile, debug and optimize code in multi-platform environments (Unity experience being a plus).</li>
<li>Strong programming skills in C# (or C++). Experience with or ability to learn C# is a requirement</li>
<li>Experience in shipping multiple games or other real-time interactive applications, including a proven understanding of software development lifecycles</li>
<li>Great communication skills with ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team as well as write technical reports</li>
<li>Comfortable with taking ownership on domains outside of expertise and work autonomously</li>
</ul>
You might also have
<ul>
<li>Extensive experience in a specific domain like 3D graphics, AR/VR, animation or core programming is a plus</li>
<li>Experience in multithreaded programming</li>
<li>Cutting edge proficiency of the C# standard and its ecosystem</li>
</ul>
Life at Unity
Unity (NYSE: U) is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices.
The company’s 1,800+ person research and development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by working alongside partners to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Apps developed by Unity creators were downloaded more than five billion times per month in 2020. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

Unity is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. Therefore, we provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.
Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Unity does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Unity will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Unity.
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 <h2>Role description</h2>
 The opportunity
Come craft the future of Unity, you'll work closely with top developers to help break boundaries of what is possible in Unity.
You'll implement new Unity features and optimize current features in conjunction with our partners. Your work will help improve many different teams across all of Unity so you'll have the opportunity to meet new people, and learn new skills. This is a phenomenal opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking technology.
We want to welcome an expert in game development to improve tooling for a AAA ecosystem in the Unity Engine.
Do you want to build tools and systems that empower large teams of content creators to excel?
This role will require occasional travel to partner offices for client collaboration or to other Unity offices for training. Travel is expected less than 25% of the time.
What you’ll be doing
<ul>
<li>Working with external team to build high-end showcases for Unity</li>
<li>Developing features, workflows or tools as needed in collaboration with our partner teams</li>
<li>Optimizing systems and tools to work with massive data sets</li>
<li>Working with premiere technology inside Unity to tackle ambitious problems and improve our tools before release.</li>
</ul>
What we’re looking for
<ul>
<li>AAA game development experience with several titles shipped on PC or Console</li>
<li>Excellent and current programming skills. C/C++, C#</li>
<li>Strong optimization and debugging skills.</li>
<li>Great communication skills and ability to work effectively on shared projects with designers, artists, testers, and other developers</li>
<li>Experience with Unity, Unreal, CryEngine or other 3D game engines</li>
</ul>
You might also have
<ul>
<li>Experience with animation programming and procedural animation techniques.</li>
<li>A love of writing good tools and workflows for all kinds of game developers</li>
<li>Realtime networked multiplayer game experience, specifically with rollback prediction models.</li>
</ul>
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Life at Unity
Unity (NYSE: U) is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices.
Unity is at the forefront of development by working alongside partners to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Apps developed by Unity creators were downloaded more than five billion times per month in 2020. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

Unity is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. Therefore, we provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.
Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Unity does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Unity will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Unity.
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 <h2>Role description</h2>
 The opportunity 
Unity’s Ultra Simple Creation (Ultra) team is building out new creative tools that will encourage and enable entirely new markets of makers. Your role will be to define technical solutions across a wide range of problems: web &amp; mobile authoring, scaling, content management and distribution, 3D, animation, video and more.
Our product team, Ultra, is an extension of Unity’s belief that the world is better with more creators in it. We are highly targeted at substantial number of everyday, common creative tasks that ordinary people have to do. We make it easier than ever to make beautiful, high quality creations.
This role is especially pivotal as a ‘startup founder’. You will work alongside your peers in design &amp; product, and are specifically responsible for making technical decisions. You will also be a key stakeholder lending engineering expertise to the overall vision, strategy, and product priorities. You will report directly to the VP of Ultra, and your role is critical to the team’s success.
This is a rare opportunity to join a 0-1 product team inside a well-established, successful company, helping to expand Unity’s tool suite to an entirely new class of users.
What you’ll be doing
<ul>
<li>We want you to join the founding team developing a brand-new Unity product that will be used by millions of real-time creators</li>
<li>Be the first engineering hire and build out the organization</li>
<li>Craft and architect a massively scalable web-first, cloud-based system from the ground up</li>
<li>Be responsible for a growing team with multiple leads and functional areas including: presentation engine, creation suite, persistent storage, teamwork, content management, content distribution, creator marketplace, analytics, plugins and SDKs</li>
</ul>
What we’re looking for 
<ul>
<li>15+ years proven experience</li>
<li>10+ years managing engineering and/or product teams</li>
<li>10+ years hands-on experience developing and shipping web-based and mobile technology and applications, in particular 3D, animation and rich media engines, creation tools, streaming services and consumer applications</li>
<li>Significant experience in full stack Web development</li>
<li>Experience in building and growing engineering and product organizations</li>
<li>Ability to manage multiple teams and work streams</li>
<li>Strategic problem solver with the ability to work with multi-functional partners at all levels</li>
</ul>
You might also have 
<ul>
<li>Agile approach: build, test, and measure; iterate quickly based on customer feedback, evolving market conditions and company critical initiatives</li>
<li>Experience in marketing, sales, business development and/or corporate development roles</li>
<li>Startup experience, from the garage through exit</li>
</ul>
Life at Unity
Unity (NYSE: U) is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices.
The company’s 1,800+ person research and development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by working alongside partners to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Apps developed by Unity creators were downloaded more than five billion times per month in 2020. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.
Unity is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. Therefore, we provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this Web site or directly to managers. Unity does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Unity will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Unity.
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 PlayStation isn’t just the best place to play… it’s also the best place to work.  With the launch of the original PlayStation in 1994, we set out to thrill gamers with amazing experiences.  Our never-ending pursuit to push gaming to new heights is the reason we are recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment.  Under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation, the PlayStation brand and experience exists because of the passionate dedication of our team who work hard for everyone to play. The Visual Arts Group and PlayStation Malaysia are passionate teams within the PlayStation family, provides world-class content, development, and services to PlayStation’s studios all over the world. Always at the cutting edge of technology, Visual Arts works with studios like Naughty Dog, Insomniac, Santa Monica Studios, Guerrilla Games, Bend Studios, SuckerPunch, San Diego Studio, Japan Studios, and more first-party teams.  Our team is made up of game and film industry professionals from all over the world, working with some of the best minds and companies around. If you are talented and proactive, and have initiative, we want to hear from you. Please apply! Why work when you can play? This is life at PlayStation.
 
Responsibilities:
<ul>
<li>The Blendshape Artist will be responsible for bringing highly-realistic faces to life for both cinematic and in-game sequences</li>
<li>This person will make the final tweaks to the topology edge-flow and determine the final positioning and refinement to key assets such as eyes, teeth, tongue and eyelashes</li>
<li>When the model face is finalized the artist will sculpt a full array of naturalistic FACs and corrective blendshapes for expressive photorealistic humans</li>
<li>Sculpting a series of high-resolution wrinkle maps to add a final level of polish and nuance to the expressions</li>
<li>Work closely with the external clients, internal artists and outsourcing partners to keep quality and style consistent across all characters</li>
<li>Create and lead others in the creation of photo-realistic humans, with particular attention to advanced facial modeling and expression modeling</li>
<li>Lead and mentor both internal character teams and outsourcing partners to reach aesthetic and technical goals</li>
<li>Create documentation, communicate requirements, and provide feedback to internal artists and outsourcing partners</li>
<li>Constantly and proactively seek to improve the production processes, tools and pipelines for character creation, rigging and animation and rendering</li>
</ul>
 
Qualifications:
<ul>
<li>At least 5 years of professional character art experience in high-end 3D games and/or films with at least 1 published title or movie</li>
<li>Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent</li>
<li>Solid grasp of realistic human anatomy with special emphasis on the head/face </li>
<li>Strong understanding of Maya and basic understanding/use of blend shapes</li>
<li>Experience with facial rigging of any kind as well as sculpting in Zbrush, Mudbox, etc.</li>
<li>Comfortable making facial expressions in the mirror and ideally capable of isolating difference expressions/actions in the face</li>
<li>Must have extreme attention to detail and an eye for minute differences/movements in the face</li>
<li>The ability to grasp technical concepts at least from a broad perspective and follow technical workflows while pushing artistic limit</li>
<li>Self-manage and keep track of progress and troubleshoot technical issues with Maya</li>
<li>Brainstorm ideas that keep in mind the overall goals of the project</li>
</ul>
 
Desired qualifications:
<ul>
<li>Experience with facial blend shape workflows on realistic humans</li>
<li>Expert understanding of human anatomy</li>
<li>Versed in Facial Action Coding System</li>
<li>Experience with Blendshape Combination System plug-in</li>
<li>Experience with Perforce</li>
</ul>
 
We sincerely appreciate the time and effort you spent in contacting us and we thank you for your interest in PlayStation.
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<li>Direct identifiers such as your first and last name.</li>
<li>Indirect identifiers such as a government ID, your Social Security, work permit or passport #.</li>
<li>Contact information such as your email address, mailing address, telephone number.</li>
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***This position has the flexibility to be fully remote***
AI Programmer
Sony Bend Studio, renowned creator of Days Gone, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, and Syphon Filter, is seeking outstanding talent to join our passionate and creative family in crafting our next high-profile AAA title.
We are seeking a AI Programmer who will Architect and implement game engine code systems that are used for the creation and development of a game application. This will involve writing game code systems for the use of the animation and/or design teams for handling the creative aspects of gameplay and AI development.
<h2>Responsibilities:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Key contributor to the development of technology as well as systems and tools that support game design needs. This includes, but is not limited to game logic, character behaviors, navigation, state-based animations selection, motion systems, scripted mini-games, physics systems, collision systems, , entities systems, sound support.</li>
<li>Maintains a thorough knowledge of the game design to manage communication and enable early identification of issues.</li>
<li>Collaborates with the production team to develop all aspects of the specified game-play experience from a technical perspective.</li>
<li>Provides input into the technical design and vision through all phases of the game development cycle from pre-production through final product release. This entails ensuring products are of the highest technical quality and uphold the integrity of the game design.</li>
<li>Maintains a clear understanding of personal task lists and project milestones to ensure set goals will be met from a scope, schedule and game-play perspective.</li>
<li>Clearly communicates updates and concerns to their manager.</li>
<li>Manages requests or information needs regarding any aspect of the technical creation process with the appropriate members of the development team.</li>
<li>Actively maintains skill-set and knowledge base by keeping track of the latest innovations from the industry.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Requirements/Education:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Strong C/C++ experience.</li>
<li>Strong 3d Math Skills.</li>
<li>Strong understanding of current data structures, algorithms, and methodologies, including Behavior Trees and other modern AI methods.</li>
<li>A wide range of game application and game engine skills (e.g., AI, and all related gameplay systems)</li>
<li>Minimum 1 year industry experience or related experience.</li>
<li>Bachelors Degree in computer science, engineering, or relevant curriculum.</li>
</ul>
 
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<div><div><div><div>Riot Games was established in 2006 by entrepreneurial gamers who believe that player-focused game development can result in great games. In 2009, Riot released its debut title League of Legends to critical and player acclaim. As the most played video game in the world, over 100 million play every month. Players form the foundation of our community and it’s for them that we continue to evolve and improve the League of Legends experience.
We’re looking for humble but ambitious, razor-sharp professionals who can teach us a thing or two. We promise to return the favor. Like us, you take play seriously; you’re passionate about games. We embrace those who see things differently, aren’t afraid to experiment, and who have a healthy disregard for constraints.
That's where you come in.
Manager, Art Direction - GMC-Shanghai
Riot Games is now a multi-game studio and next on the list...becoming THE entertainment company of the 21st century. As a result, Global Marketing Creative (GMC) was born to better support all of our Global Marketing Creative needs.  And to be truly global we are building a GMC HUB in Shanghai.
As Manager, Art Direction, GMC-Shanghai, you will report to the Head of Art, GMC-Shanghai. You will help Visual Designers and Artists of this discipline align on production goals and define the quality standards for all Riot’s visual storytelling for global marketing through great partnerships. Ensuring there is consistency in overall culture, career growth, craft development and animation production experience to deliver high quality visual guidance and direction in a multitude of mediums, across all platforms and games for the Marketing teams’ largest Franchise brand moments.
As the Manager, Art Direction, you will work with Senior Leaders in Creative, Visual Design, Narrative and Production globally to give teams feedback as a Stakeholder or SME for cinematics, motion graphics, animatics, storyboarding and illustrated work by utilizing expert craft knowledge and experience. You will also support efforts to find and recruit talent, build relationships with studios and create a presence for the discipline within the industry to spotlight our team's accomplishments.  
<h2>Responsibilities:</h2>
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<li>Create, strategize, and improve efficient art &amp; design pipelines and tooling for all artists</li>
<li>Improve efforts to build outsourcing strategies and documentation to capture learnings</li>
<li>Find and recruit studios and talent for teams and products</li>
<li>Provide design and art feedback to internal and external developers to maintain quality and consistency across all products</li>
<li>Partner with Senior Leaders, Art Directors, Craft Leads and Product teams to shape and drive overall art strategy for GMC-Shanghai</li>
<li>Communicate with Directors, Art Directors and Art Leads across all games in all regions to standardize and improve on defining career goals, craft growth and production methods</li>
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<h2>Required Qualifications:</h2>
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<li>5+ years of experience in publishing or entertainment related industry and providing art direction and mentorship across a multi-disciplinary team</li>
<li>Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Miro, and presentation tools</li>
<li>Expert knowledge of Illustration, concept / design, storytelling, animation and the creative development process</li>
<li>Showcases a strong understanding of brand building, typography, and visual design system</li>
<li>Persistent self-education around innovations in marketing creative</li>
<li>Fluent in spoken English and Mandarin</li>
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For this role, you'll find success through leadership expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!
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<li>Knowledge of Riot IPs: League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, Wild Rift, etc...</li>
<li>Experience owning and effectively communicating about projects and workflow</li>
<li>Experience in Visual Development or world building for games, film, or animation</li>
<li>Experience in areas such as motion graphics, illustration, animation, or 2D/CG Production</li>
<li>User experience as it relates to web, mobile, television, and film development </li>
<li>Creative direction and campaign strategic development</li>
<li>Project leadership experience</li>
<li>Creative Tools such as adobe creative suite, design and video production tools</li>
<li>Active member of your craft community</li>
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<h2>Senior FX Artist</h2>
Ready At Dawn is looking for a Senior VFX Artist to join us in creating high profile original titles in VR, ranging from social and competitive multiplayer to character driven action and adventure single-player games.
The ideal candidate in this role is an experienced VFX Artist in games, with a balance of technical problem solving and artistic skill and a passion for all manner of VFX, from gameplay and combat driven systems, to environmental atmospherics and destruction.  With a highly collaborative development culture at Ready At Dawn, experience at effectively working and communicating alongside a diverse team, across all departments and specialization, to solve ambitious visual, gameplay, and technical problems together, is extremely important for success in this role.
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<li>Collaborate with the Art, Gameplay, Design, and Animation teams to develop in-game FX elements, from early look development and prototyping to final polished implementation</li>
<li>Use our engine authoring toolset, Maya, Houdini, Substance, and various other supplemental FX authoring packages to create stunning VFX particles, systems, textures, and simulations</li>
<li>Directly implement VFX content, including in-world placement and scripting of systemic / gameplay driven behaviors</li>
<li>Contribute to the development and enhancement of our proprietary engine VFX systems, including particle effect authoring and scripting and sequencing tools and pipelines</li>
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<h3>Qualifications:</h3>
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<li>Experience as a VFX artist in games, using a real-time authoring toolset (ex: Unreal, Unity, etc)</li>
<li>Experience with various supplemental 3D and VFX authoring packages (Maya, Houdini, Substance, etc)</li>
<li>Portfolio that demonstrates a breadth of both technical and artistic execution of real-time VFX</li>
<li>Passion for games and the future of Virtual Reality</li>
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<h3>Additional Skills (Pluses):</h3>
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<li>Programming experience</li>
<li>Scripting and/or visual scripting experience (Unreal’s Blueprints, etc.)</li>
<li>Strong texturing and material skills</li>
<li>Fluid simulation experience with Maya, Houdini or equivalent</li>
<li>Any other game related art or design experience (animation, modeling, etc.)</li>
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Submitted demo reels must include samples of previous work and an exact breakdown of your specific contribution to the material submitted along with resume featuring references.
Please send samples of your work with your application.

<h2>Senior Combat Systems Designer</h2>
Do you know on what frame Ryu’s jab hits on in Street Fighter 2? Can you pontificate upon what is a good way to sell a hit in a fighting game? Do you lose sleep debating execution versus accessibility in regards to a fighting game’s competitive lifespan? If so, you may be the Combat Designer Ready At Dawn is looking for to join us in creating high profile original titles in VR, ranging from social and competitive multiplayer to character driven action and adventure single-player games.
The Combat Designer will work closely with other designers and other disciplines to imagine and plan the core combat and player weapon systems for our next third person action console title. The Combat Designer collaborates with design, engineering, and animation teams to create varied and compelling combat across the full spectrum of the game.
<h3>Responsibilities:</h3>
Working hand in hand with other developers to take Combat concepts to shipping quality
Assist in the development of enemies, weapons and mechanics to bring the combat vision to life
Conceive, spec, implement and balance characters, weapons, mechanics, AI and other game elements that combine to create a combat experience that is both fun and strategically deep
Balance weapons and their attribute progression across the length of the game
Ability to discuss design concepts at a high level, in formal and impromptu settings. Be able to describe at the low level, in detail, the gameplay systems the player will engage with to ensure a compelling combat experience
Create and maintain design documents to share ideas, concepts, and design specifications in helpful, clear formats
Participate in prototyping and testing efforts to prove-out combat gameplay
Gather, acknowledge, and respond to feedback, adjusting design choices as necessary
Ability to anticipate, prioritize, and organize work to meet objectives
<h3>Requirements:</h3>
Shipped at least one Console or PC title as a combat designer
Must be able to communicate effectively and work well with other disciplines
Expert knowledge of combat and weapon systems
Working knowledge of industry scripting tools

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