Lead Artist – 3D Scenery & Team Leadership

the hive; Cambridge; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Frontier Developments is seeking a Lead Artist to shape and deliver scenery for our games, guiding a small team to create high-quality 3D assets and assembled environment content.

You will lead the team to meet quality, performance and schedule expectations, while supporting growth and wellbeing through clear direction and ongoing feedback. Collaboration with Art Direction and Production is essential to align vision with delivery.

Qualifications

• Strong experience delivering high-quality 3D assets within a game development environment.
• Highly developed capability in asset creation workflows, including modelling, texturing, and real-time integration.
• Solid hands-on experience with industry tools such as Maya, Substance Painter, and ZBrush.
• Experience leading or coordinating a team delivering content at scale.
• Experience line managing individuals, including performance reviews, goal setting, and development planning.
• A good understanding of production pipelines, scheduling, and working across disciplines.
• The ability to balance visual quality with performance and delivery constraints.
• Strong artistic judgement, including composition, scale, and visual storytelling.
• Clear communication, organisation, and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of scenery assets across team while meeting quality, performance and schedules.
• Translate art direction into clear goals and guide teams to consistent results.
• Collaborate with Production to plan work, provide estimates, track progress, identify risks.
• Review work daily and provide feedback to resolve challenges and keep delivery moving.
• Ensure assets form cohesive, believable scenery that supports gameplay and storytelling.
• Maintain alignment with technical requirements, pipelines and performance constraints.
• Line manage artists and support their development through feedback and coaching.
• Assign work to balance delivery needs with individual development.
• Foster a positive, collaborative team environment and clear communication.

Skills

3D asset delivery

Asset creation workflows

Maya

Substance Painter

ZBrush

Team leadership

Performance optimization

Communication

Tools

Maya

Substance Painter

ZBrush

Job description

Frontier Developments is seeking a Lead Artist to shape and deliver scenery for our games, guiding a small team to create high-quality 3D assets and assembled environment content.

You will lead the team to meet quality, performance and schedule expectations, while supporting growth and wellbeing through clear direction and ongoing feedback. Collaboration with Art Direction and Production is essential to align vision with delivery.