Senior Technical Artist - Brighton, United Kingdom - Sumo Digital Ltd.

Sumo Digital Ltd.

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Brighton, United Kingdom

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Company Name
Sumo Digital Ltd.
Salary
Competitive
Location
Brighton, United Kingdom
Country
United Kingdom
Industry sector
Art
Job start date
ASAP
Posted date
11/06/202 Experience Level
Mid-Senior Level
Job type
Permanent | Full Time
Remote / Hybrid
Yes

The Chinese Room has established a reputation as one of the most creative and exciting studios in the UK.

We're proud to be internationally recognised as pioneers of storytelling with a flair for creating atmospheric, rich and imaginative games.

As a Sumo Digital studio, The Chinese Room is built on passion, on finding amazing people and letting them shine.

It's an exciting time to be part of Sumo, winners of the Develop:

Star Awards 2019 Best Studio and GI Biz 2020 Best Places to Work; big things are on the horizon and we want you to be part of our continued journey.

Join us

We have an extraordinary opportunity for an experienced Senior Technical Artist to join the team here at The Chinese Room.

Within this role you will:

Work closely with Art Leads to deliver artistic vision within the project requirements
Proactively use knowledge and experience to identify & solve problems before they affect the development team
Implement new techniques that increase the quality and efficiency of the art created
Help optimise content from the art team to make sure content runs on a wide range of platforms
Collaborate effectively with both the art and programming teams
Testing new tools before deployment into production
Document and knowledge share
Regularly communicate technical constraints and their reasons to the art team

To be successful you will need to have:

Must have a minimum of 5 years production working within the games industry
Proven track record in at least 2 shipped titles (preferably AAA)
Experience of production level shader work and optimisation within Unreal Engine
Strong understanding of the creation of shaders within Unreal Engine
Be highly experienced with blueprints and their implementation.
High levels of aesthetic attention to detail.
Familiarity working and developing in a multiplatform, multiproject environment.
Experience with other programs such as Substance Painter / Designer. Zbrush etc
Strong communication and organisational skills
Excellent time management skills
Coaching skills
Selfmotivated and agile

It would beneficial if you have:

Experience using 3dsMax as a Technical Artist. Maxscript programming would be viewed positively
Experience in other scripting and programming languages
Experience using Houdini
Experience with data management
Positive influence and leadership skills

What we offer:

Defined Annual Bonus Scheme
ULEV car scheme
Monthly allowance to spend on enhancing benefits
Salary

Sacrifice Pension

Flexible Working
21 days freeuse holiday
your birthday off
5 learning days including 1 volunteer day
a duvet day
Christmas shutdown from Christmas Eve to New Year
Bank Holidays
extra allowance accrued for longer service
Free dental insurance
Life Assurance 4x Salary
Income Protection of 75% for 5 years
Enhanced Mat/Paternity & Adoption pay
Employee Assistance Programme:
Help at Hand
Remote GP, Mental Health & Physio appointments
Free financial & home buying support consultations
Cycle to Work Scheme
Payroll Giving Scheme
Access to 4,000 Udemy Courses
Career Development Pathway
Wrap Parties.
Project Completion Awards
Game/Creative Jams
Big Family Events
Studio social activities, e.g. running, board games, film, yoga, life drawing...

Prism

Sumo's employee diversity focus group
Free fruit and drinks in our studios
Employee Referral Bonus

More about The Chinese Room:

Our titles include the ground-breaking Dear Esther (2012), cult horror Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (2013), the VR fairy-tale So Let Us Melt the open-world adventure Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (2015), a PlayStation 4 exclusive that won major awards across the world, and the multi award-winning Little Orpheus This included an amazing 10 BAFTA nominations and 3 BAFTA wins.

We bring our passion and commitment to creating exciting original games to a network of studios renowned for quality and expertise.

Being part of the Sumo team enables us to expand and grow in ambition and confidence, taking our reputation for storytelling into new genres.

Our most recently announced game, Little Orpheus, is an Apple Arcade exclusive and we're working on other unannounced 'AAA' titles that will further establish our award-winning style and reputation.

We offer a superb benefits package including generous holidays and flexi-time. We care about our people, with an emphasis on the work/life balance and out of office events such as our legendary Sumo 'Big Day Out', plus epic Christmas parties and much more Our regular studio