# 3D Art Director

**Company**: Volta
**Location**: Québec City
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $80,000-120,000 CAD
**Category**: Game Development
**Industry**: Entertainment

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## Description

**Job Description**

We're looking for an Art Director who can define a vision, align teams around it, and deliver consistently at a high bar,across projects, partners, and pipelines.

At Volta, part of Keywords Studios, we collaborate with leading game developers to bring high-quality art to AAA titles. We combine the reach of a global network with the precision of a tight, production-driven studio,where ideas are only as strong as their execution.

**The Role**

- Define and uphold the visual direction for environment and prop production across projects, IPs, and styles

- Own and elevate the full environment pipeline,from props creation to full level development; including hero props, set dressing, environment kits, foliage, terrain, lighting and simulation

- Guide the creation of environments, props, modular kits, trim sheets, and supporting visual elements with strong attention to function, scale, and storytelling

- Ensure consistency across large-scale worlds, maintaining alignment between artistic vision, gameplay needs, and technical constraints

- Work directly in Unreal Engine 5 to review, troubleshoot, and guide environment production in-engine

- Set clear quality benchmarks and review/approve work before client delivery

- Lead, mentor, and develop environment and prop artists across varying experience levels

- Provide clear, actionable feedback through reviews, paintovers, and in-engine guidance

- Maintain visual consistency across distributed or large production teams

- Collaborate closely with production, design, engineering, and external clients to align on scope, priorities, and delivery expectations

- Support project planning, scoping, and milestone definition with a clear understanding of risk and dependencies

- Balance creative ambition with production realities,timelines, budgets, memory constraints, and engine performance

- Proactively identify production risks and propose practical, solution-oriented paths forward

- Help define and refine pipelines, workflows, and documentation to improve scalability and efficiency

- Partner with pipeline and tech teams to support engine integration and workflow optimization

- Contribute to hiring, team structure, performance evaluation, and artist development

- Support client-facing discussions, creative alignment, and escalation handling when needed

- Contribute to early project strategy, bidding, and feasibility assessments where required

- Other duties as assigned

**What You Bring**

- 10+ years in the video game industry with multiple shipped AAA titles in a Lead or Art Director role focused on environments and props

- Proven ability to own the full environment production pipeline from concept/blockout through to final in-engine polish

- Deep expertise in environment workflows including modular construction, trim sheets, asset optimization, memory budgets, and engine integration

- Strong hands-on experience with Unreal Engine 5, including in-engine review, troubleshooting, and production guidance

- Demonstrated experience mentoring environment and prop artists with clear, actionable feedback

- Strong client-facing experience working directly with external Art Directors and cross-functional teams

- Solid understanding of production realities,scoping, risk management, and pipeline dependencies

- Ability to operate effectively in a French-speaking work environment

- Strong communication skills,clear, direct, and able to align teams without friction

- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple priorities in fast-paced production environments

- A grounded, solution-oriented mindset with strong critical thinking and decision-making ability

- Passion for games, with the ability to balance creative ambition with production constraints

- Proficiency with industry-standard tools and workflows, including:

+ Autodesk Maya, 3ds Max, Blender 	+ ZBrush 	+ Substance 3D Painter & Designer 	+ Unreal Engine 5, Unity 	+ Houdini, Gaea, World Machine 	+ Marmoset Toolbag, SpeedTree 	+ Marvelous Designer 	+ Photoshop

**Why Volta**

- Work on high-profile AAA projects across a variety of styles and partners

- A collaborative, no-ego environment focused on quality, clarity, and follow-through

- The opportunity to shape teams, pipelines, and creative direction in a growing studio

- Backed by Keywords Studios,global scale, with local autonomy

- A supportive culture that values both craft and people

## Skills

### Required
- Unreal Engine 5
- Autodesk Maya
- ZBrush
- Substance 3D Painter & Designer
- Houdini
- Gaea
- World Machine
- Marmoset Toolbag
- SpeedTree
- Marvelous Designer
- Photoshop

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