Lead Technical Art & Pipeline Manager

Riot Games; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Riot Games in Sydney is seeking a Manager, Technical Art, Tools & Pipeline to define and scale creative workflows for content creation across our next-generation worlds. You will lead and grow a team of technical artists, guiding tooling, pipelines, and collaboration with Art Leadership, Production, and Engineering to empower artists to push quality and efficiency at scale.

You will work closely with Engineering and cross-disciplinary teams to identify opportunities, establish scalable systems,

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience as a Technical Artist in games or a related industry.
• 2+ years in a people management role leading Technical Artists or similar disciplines.
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience developing scalable artist tools and workflows.
• Professional experience with Unreal Engine 5 and modern content creation workflows (Maya, Substance Suite).
• Strong understanding of art production pipelines and translating artistic requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Proven experience partnering with engineers to develop tools and pipelines to improve content creation efficiency.
• Excellent communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, with ability to bridge art and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage a team of Technical Artists, providing support and mentorship.
• Define tooling, workflow, and pipeline requirements across disciplines.
• Own and support artist-facing tools, workflows, and content pipelines, ensuring they are intuitive and scalable.
• Collaborate with Engineering to evaluate technical solutions balancing usability, efficiency, and sustainability.
• Guide development and optimization of content creation pipelines for parallel production streams.
• Evolve tools and pipelines as project needs change and scale.
• Build cross-disciplinary relationships to understand artist needs and drive improvements.
• Champion best practices, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

Skills

People management

Mentoring

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Critical thinking

Ambiguity navigation

Tools

Unreal Engine 5

Maya

Substance Suite

Houdini

Blender

ZBrush

Photoshop

3DS Max

PyQt

Job description

Riot Games in Sydney is seeking a Manager, Technical Art, Tools & Pipeline to define and scale creative workflows for content creation across our next-generation worlds. You will lead and grow a team of technical artists, guiding tooling, pipelines, and collaboration with Art Leadership, Production, and Engineering to empower artists to push quality and efficiency at scale.

You will work closely with Engineering and cross-disciplinary teams to identify opportunities, establish scalable systems,