Description
Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.
As a Senior Environment Artist, you will partner with the Senior Art Director and play a foundational role in establishing the visual language, world identity, and material style for new game projects from the ground up. You will create high-quality, real-time assets, modular kits, and full environments for playable demos, prototypes, and vertical slices. You possess a deep understanding of world-building, composition, and game engine implementation, combined with the craft leadership to set production standards. This role will offer opportunities to provide mentorship, lead reviews, and help guide the overall direction of the environment art discipline.
Responsibilities:
- Create high-quality real-time environments, architecture, props, and modular kits for playable demos, prototypes, and vertical slices.
- Establish the environment art quality bar and production standards, while providing mentorship, feedback, and craft direction.
- Partner closely with Art Direction to define the project's visual language, materials, scale, colour, composition, and overall world identity.
- Design modular environment content that can be reused, adapted, and expanded as the project and gameplay evolves.
- Collaborate with Technical Art and Engineering on procedural, scalable, and efficient environment workflows for real-time production.
- Ensure playable spaces support composition, texturing, lighting, readability, navigation, and gameplay clarity while staying cohesive with the established visual direction.
- Lead environment reviews across internal and external production, helping maintain quality, guide priorities, and support future team growth.
Qualifications:
- Demonstrated expertise in AAA game development with 8+ years of professional environment art experience and shipped console or PC titles.
- Strong portfolio showing high-quality real-time environments, architecture, props, modular world-building, and visual storytelling.
- Experience mentoring artists, leading art reviews, and providing craft direction is required; experience leading or managing small internal or external art teams is preferred.
- Deep understanding of modeling, UVs, texturing, materials, optimisation, modular construction, and real-time environment production.
- Strong artistic sensibility across composition, scale, colour, lighting, shape language, materials, and gameplay readability.
- Strong experience with modern environment pipelines and tools such as Maya, Blender, Substance 3D, Houdini, ZBrush, Unreal, Unity, Frostbite, or comparable tools and engines.
- Experience adapting environment art across different game genres, visual styles, gameplay needs, procedural workflows, UGC systems, or AI-assisted content pipelines is a plus.
The role is hybrid, onsite three days a week in Redwood City, California, Montreal or Vancouver Canada. The Senior Environment Artist will report to the Senior Art Director.
Pay Transparency - North America The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).
Pay Ranges:
- British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) $114,300 - $156,200 CAD
- California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. San Francisco) $127,700 - $190,600 USD