Senior Technical Artist

WorkinGames; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Small, diverse team

Career development

Competitive salary

Hybrid onsite/remote

Job summary

IGT is seeking a Senior Technical Artist for our Sydney Game Studio to craft visual language for land-based slot games and partner with designers and engineers to deliver production-ready assets.

You'll oversee external partners, create briefs, and optimize Unity implementations across 2D art, shaders, and effects—balancing quality with performance in a collaborative, studio setting.

Qualifications

• Visual development: illustration skills with AI-assisted workflows when suitable.
• Production leadership: scope artwork, briefs, manage external vendors.
• Unity: implement and optimize 2D art, animation, shaders in production.
• Technical judgement: understand asset pipelines, performance trade-offs.
• Collaboration: proactive, pragmatic, low-ego team player.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Game Designer, Software Engineer, and stakeholders to set aesthetic vision.
• Create concept art, style frames, and prototypes, including AI-assisted workflows.
• Define asset lists with dependencies, priorities, and risks.
• Draft briefs for external art/animation partners with specs and acceptance criteria.
• Integrate, configure, and optimize assets in Unity for performance.

Skills

Visual development

Production leadership

Unity

Technical judgement

Collaboration

Tools

C# scripting

Unity Editor tooling

Maya

3ds Max

Blender

Spine 2D

UI/UX design

Typography

Branding

Job description

## Description**Your growth matters.**At IGT, we're building a culture where people Innovate with Purpose, Compete Intensely & Win, Lead with Heart, Make It Matter, and Create Value. Grow your career while helping shape what's next.Build what's next at IGT.## Short DescriptionAn outstanding opportunity exists to join a global market leader and dominant force in the Australian gaming market.IGT is the world leader in the design, development and manufacture of gaming products and systems. IGT Australia provides a range of gaming products, systems and services to the Club, Hotel and Casino industries.We are searching for an exceptional Senior Technical Artist to join our Sydney Game Studio and help a small, highly collaborative team create compelling land-based slot games and player experiences.Location: Macquarie Park, NSW## **Responsibilities**# In this role, your responsibilities will include:* Partnering with the Game Designer, Software Engineer and project stakeholders to establish the aesthetic vision, visual language and overall look and feel for each game.* Creating concept art, style frames, visualisation artwork and rapid prototypes using your own craft and, where appropriate, approved AI-assisted workflows.* Defining the complete art and animation asset list, including dependencies, priorities, effort, delivery stages and technical risks.* Creating clear, comprehensive briefs that give third-party art and animation partners the creative direction, technical specifications and acceptance criteria needed to deliver production-ready assets.* Integrating, configuring and optimising final art and animation assets within Unity.# External Art Production Management:* Preparing thorough, production-ready briefs for third-party art and animation partners, supported by visual references, style targets, storyboards, animation lists and clear acceptance criteria.* Specifying exactly how assets must be supplied, including resolution, colour and alpha requirements, file formats, layer structures, naming conventions, animation timing, looping, export settings and performance budgets.* Managing external providers through briefing, milestone reviews and final delivery; providing precise, constructive and actionable feedback until the required creative and technical standard is reached.* Maintaining consistency across internally created, AI-assisted and outsourced assets while protecting the integrity of the approved art direction.* Communicating progress, dependencies, quality concerns and delivery risks to the project team and stakeholders, and helping balance scope, schedule, quality and performance.# Technical Art and Unity implementation:* Importing, configuring and implementing final art and animation assets in Unity, including sprites and atlases, materials, shaders, animation systems, Spine content, UI elements, render ordering and real-time particle effects.* Working closely with the Software Engineer to develop robust implementation approaches and resolve visual, pipeline and runtime issues.* Optimising content for target hardware through careful management of texture memory, compression, draw calls, overdraw, batching, shader complexity, animation cost and asset loading.* Using profiling and in-engine testing to identify bottlenecks and ensure that visual quality, stability and responsiveness meet product requirements.* Maintaining disciplined digital asset management, source-file hygiene and version-control practices throughout development.## **Qualifications**# What we’re looking for:* **Visual development:** Excellent Illustration skills to create convincing concepts and visual targets, supported by responsible use of approved generative-AI tools where suitable.* **Production leadership:** proven ability to scope artwork, write detailed briefs, manage external vendors and assess creative and technical quality.* **Unity:** strong hands-on experience implementing and optimising 2D art, animation, shaders and effects in production projects.* **Technical judgement:** a strong understanding of asset pipelines, file preparation, runtime constraints and performance trade-offs for real-time games.* **Collaboration:** a proactive, pragmatic and low-ego approach suited to a small multidisciplinary development team.# Extra bonus points if you have experience with:* C# scripting, Unity Editor tooling or pipeline automation.* 3D production workflows in tools such as Maya, 3ds Max or Blender.* Spine 2D.* UI/UX, typography, logo design, branding or motion-graphics design.* Profiling and optimisation for fixed-specification or resource-constrained hardware.# What we offer:* A small, diverse, respectful and fun team environment where you can do your best work.* A studio that values your expertise and input, with the security and backing of a global market leader.* Career and professional development tailored to support your ambition and future success.* A competitive salary package.* Flexible work arrangements with a mix of onsite and work-from-home days through the week.## **Keys to Success**• Building collaborative relationships • Decision making • Drive results • Foster innovation • Personal energy • Self-leadership**Why join IGT?**At IGT, our greatest competitive advantage is our people. We take ownership, work with urgency, act with integrity, stay curious, and create value for our customers and each other. Join us and help shape what's next.IGT is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace that reflects the global communities and customers we serve. We strive to create an environment where all employees feel valued, respected, and empowered. IGT is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. This commitment applies to all employment practices, including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, and termination.We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.