Environment Art Outsource Lead

Impleo; United States; On-site; USD 172,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Epic Games is seeking an Environment Outsource Lead to supervise content from outsource partners. The role combines supervisory duties with hands-on art responsibilities, emphasizing environment art and game pipelines. Strong communication with vendors and a solid art background are essential.

The ideal candidate will manage asset blockouts, documentation, and asset packaging for external artists, ensuring alignment with technical constraints and engine requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping AAA titles across multiple platforms.
• Experience shipping production assets for games in Environment discipline.
• Strong understanding of Unreal Engine 5, Substance Painter, Marmoset, Perforce, and 3D modeling packages.
• Familiarity with emerging art production workflows and willingness to explore new approaches.
• Must be highly organized, self-driven, and a great team player.

Responsibilities

• Work with Lead/Director to establish visual direction for outsourcing vendors.
• Create documentation, video references, and asset production examples for vendors.
• Provide clear feedback to outsourcing partners and escalate if goals aren’t met to leadership.
• Coordinate cross-discipline with artists and designers to understand props needs and goals.
• Make fixes to keep assets consistent and game-ready as handed off to vendors.
• Provide prototype meshes with correct scale, pivot placement, and technical constraints (vert count, materials, PBR).
• Explore new tools/workflows to improve efficiency, quality, and consistency in outsourced environment art production.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to integrate new technologies into art pipelines.

Skills

Environment art

Outsource collaboration

Documentation

Mentoring feedback

Team player

Tools

Unreal Engine 5

Substance Painter

Marmoset

Perforce

3D modeling

Job description

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

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Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

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What We Do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

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What You'll Do

Epic Games is searching for an experienced Environment Outsource Lead to support and supervise creative content provided by our outsource partners. The Outsource Lead will provide front-line creative feedback for work submitted to Epic for review. Though the role will be mainly supervisory, the individual should be an experienced artist. They should have experience working in game studio pipelines, with a solid hands-on art background, especially in Environment Art. The ideal candidate would be a talented artist who can effectively communicate with outsource partners, maintain documentation of existing pipelines, collect or create benchmark and technical example assets, collect photo references, create asset blockouts, create simple block-out paint overs, and finally package all files to send off to the external artists.

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In this role, you will

• Work with the Lead and Director level to establish visual direction for our outsourcing vendors
• Collect or generate detailed documentation, video references, and examples of art asset production, procedures, and engine requirements to support our external vendors
• Clearly communicate feedback to outsource partners, and ensure those creative notes and goals are met, informing leadership in the event that isn't happening
• Communicate cross-discipline with artists, level designers, game designers, and production to understand the needs and goals of props being created
• Make any needed fixes to keep assets consistent and technically game-ready as they're handed off from the outsource partner
• Provide prototype meshes with accurate scale and pivot placement, with understanding of the technical constraints, including vert count management, material setup, and PBR texture creation
• Explore and leverage emerging tools and workflows to improve efficiency, quality, and consistency across outsourced environment art production
• Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to identify opportunities to integrate new creative technologies into existing art pipelines

What we're looking for

• Experience in shipping AAA titles across multiple platforms
• Experienced in shipping production assets for games, specifically within the Environment discipline
• Strong understanding of the latest toolsets in game art creation, including but not limited to Unreal Engine 5, Substance Painter, Marmoset, Perforce, and 3D modeling packages
• Familiarity with emerging creative technologies and evolving art production workflows, with a willingness to explore new approaches to and participate in content creation
• Must be highly organized, self-driven, customer-focused, and a great team player
• Ability to critique, mentor, and improve art through written feedback loops
• A keen understanding of technical hurdles, the ability to autonomously make choices to further art quality, with excellent communication skills being a must
• Experience working within a team and a high-pressure production environment

This role is open to multiple locations across the US (including CA, NYC, & WA).

Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

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New York City Base Pay Range

$172,262 - $235,016 USD

$165,686 - $220,915 USD

Washington Base Pay Range

$165,686 - $220,915 USD

ABOUT US

Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 years we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design . As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

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