Senior Character Artist

Electronic Arts is seeking a Senior Character Artist to join their Research & Engineering team. As a Senior Character Artist, you will partner closely with Art Direction and help define the project's visual identity, characters, and stylistic direction. You will lead the creation of visually distinctive, real-time character assets and modular parts for early playable demos, prototypes, and high-fidelity vertical slices.

Responsibilities:

• Create high-quality real-time character assets that establish and reinforce the project's visual identity.
• Help establish the character art quality bar and production standards, provide mentorship and visual feedback, and support future team growth as the discipline scales.
• Partner closely with Art Direction to translate visual targets into practical character solutions while preserving intended silhouette, proportion, materials, and style.
• Work with Technical Art and Engineering to build scalable character workflows for content that may be handcrafted, adapted, customized, or remixed.
• Explore stylization, material response, modularity, customization, and asset variation across different game experiences and visual styles.
• Support playable demos and vertical slices by taking hero characters from early look development through polished in-engine presentation.
• Collaborate with Animation, VFX, UX, and Environment teams to ensure characters read clearly and feel cohesive within the broader game experience.
• Support reviews of internal and external character production, ensuring work consistently meets the established visual and technical quality bar.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated expertise in AAA game development (8+ years) with shipped titles on console or PC.
• Strong portfolio showing high-quality real-time character work, including stylized and/or visually distinctive characters.
• Experience mentoring artists, leading art reviews, and providing craft direction.
• Advanced knowledge of character modeling, sculpting, topology, texturing, materials, and real-time optimization.
• Experience with standard character tools such as Maya, Blender, ZBrush, Substance 3D, Marvelous Designer, or comparable software.
• Experience working in Unreal, Unity, Frostbite, or another modern proprietary engine.
• Excellent understanding of anatomy, proportion, silhouette, shape language, color, and material definition.
• Comfort working cross-functionally with Art Direction, Technical Art, Animation, Design, and Engineering.
• Experience with modular characters, customization systems, procedural workflows, or AI-assisted content creation.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Paid time off
• Sick time
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Retirement plan
• Bonus and other incentive programs