Description
As a 3D Environment Art Team Lead at Ubisoft Montréal, you’ll guide the Modeling and Texture team and deliver the environment assets needed for Rainbow Six Siege map production.
Responsibilities:
- Guide and develop the Modeling and Texture team, including participation in hiring, onboarding, and retention efforts
- Hold one-on-one meetings, coaching sessions, and performance reviews, and identify artists’ development opportunities
- Plan and balance the team’s workload, capacity, priorities, and delivery commitments
- Track tasks, bugs, and production progress in Jira, and keep the backlog and stakeholders up to date on delivery status and risks
- Set and track asset and texture production plans with the level art lead to meet map production needs
- Support artists in ensuring assets and textures meet the project's artistic, technical, and production requirements
- Review models and textures, give constructive feedback, and check visual consistency, optimization, and integration requirements
- Oversee modeling, texturing, and polish through final delivery while meeting schedules and technical budgets
- Coordinate with level art, art direction, production, and technical teams on asset needs, dependencies, and production challenges
- Improve workflows and production practices through knowledge sharing, reusable assets, and solutions to pipeline issues
Qualifications:
- Experience in video game environment art, including modeling, texturing, or asset production
- Experience guiding, mentoring, or coordinating artists in game development
- Participation in a shipped game or equivalent production experience
- Understanding of game development pipelines and content creation workflows
- Ability to organize work and balance priorities with team development needs
- Strong communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
- Problem-solving skills and experience with tracking or collaboration tools such as Jira, Perforce, or equivalent tools
- Experience on a triple-A live game and knowledge of Rainbow Six Siege are assets