Senior Technical Artist - Vancouver, Canada - Kabam

    Kabam
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    Regular Full time (RFT)
    Description

    In this role, you can expect to:

  • Working closely with artists, project managers, engineers and the rest of the Technical Art team to create and improve art production workflows, tools, pipelines, and asset optimization/integration
  • Developing pipelines and tools for the team
  • Contributing to rigging characters, and supporting animators using those rigs
  • Researching and prototyping cutting-edge tools and rigging techniques
  • Finding creative solutions to realize artistic visions within the technical limits
  • Support VFX artists, modelers, and animators as they produce art assets
  • To be successful in this role, your background includes:

  • 5+ years development experience in Unity
  • Solid game industry experience, specifically in a technical artist role
  • Comfortable with troubleshooting artist technical problems
  • Proficiency in Maya and/or Motionbuilder and creating tools in these programs using Python
  • Knowledge of art optimization techniques
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Experience in Unity Scripting (C#)
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and prioritize tasks accordingly
  • Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here's a look at some of the support we provide our people:

  • Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
  • DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that's why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you're able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
  • RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days with us.
  • PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
  • Employee and Family Assistance Program : this program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
  • Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
  • Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
  • Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion.
  • Cool spaces: Our offices are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, Prince Edward Island, and Seoul. Whether it's summers on the rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, watching the fireworks in Montreal's South Shore, or trying local eats in Downtown Charlottetown - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile
  • Giving back: Our 'Agents of Change' initiative is how we support the communities close to our heart, and we have several events and fundraisers every year that Agents of Change organize.
  • Hybrid Work: We aim to provide flexible arrangements that suit all work styles. All teams at Kabam are hybrid work environments, with a minimum of 2 days in-office to foster team collaboration and bonding. Full-remote options are also available for certain positions within Kabam.
  • $98,400 - $147,600 a yearThis salary range is specific to candidates located in British Columbia. The salary of the successful candidate will vary within this range based on their knowledge, skills, and abilities.