Lead Environment Artist

Keywords Studios; United States; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Keywords Studios is seeking a Lead Environment Artist to join our APAC team across Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, or Singapore. You will lead environment art, mentor artists, and drive visual quality on an exciting project.

Work with Art Direction, Level Design and Technical Art to build modular environments, optimize performance, and shape production pipelines in Unreal, Unity, or our proprietary engine. Remote/Hybrid options are available; sponsorship is not offered.

Qualifications

• Shipped AAA or high-quality game project experience.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating environment art fundamentals.
• Understanding of modular environment workflows and PBR pipelines.
• Ability to mentor and guide other artists.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality environment art aligned with artistic direction.
• Build, iterate, and optimize environments for gameplay and narrative.
• Collaborate with Art Direction, Level Design and Technical Art.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to Environment Artists.
• Define modular environment production approaches.
• Review assets to maintain quality and consistency.
• Troubleshoot performance and pipeline issues.
• Contribute to workflows and environment benchmarks.
• Support planning and estimation for asset production.

Skills

Environment art

Mentoring

Team collaboration

PBR pipelines

AAA production

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity

Proprietary engine

Job description

Description

Keywords Studios is currently looking to expand its team in Southeast Asia. We're currently looking for an accomplished, enthusiastic and self-motivated Lead Environment Artist to join our team working on an exciting, new and unannounced project.

Keywords Studios is a global leader providing art services to AAA Publishers. Our work can be seen across many of the top-selling titles on console, PC and mobile. You'll get to work alongside seasoned developers bringing expertise from world-class AAA studios.

This position may be offered as either a permanent or fixed-term contract role, depending on the project's requirements, business needs, and the candidate's experience and level.

These opportunities can be located in Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam (Remote), or Singapore (on-site). Sponsorship and relocation are not being offered as part of this package.

A Lead Environment Artist at Keywords Studios:

• Creates high-quality environment art while helping set the visual and quality bar for the team.
• Builds, iterates, and optimises environments that support gameplay, narrative, and artistic direction.
• Works closely with Art Direction, Level Design, and Technical Art to develop visually strong and performant environments.
• Provides hands-on guidance, feedback, and mentoring to Environment Artists.
• Helps define modular and kit-based approaches to environment production.
• Reviews and improves environment assets, materials, and scenes to maintain quality and consistency.
• Troubleshoots performance, technical, and production issues within the environment art pipeline.
• Contributes to visual benchmarks and helps establish effective environment art workflows.
• Supports planning and estimation while remaining actively involved in asset and environment production.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Senior or Lead Environment Artist on a shipped AAA or high-quality game project.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating environment art fundamentals and production experience.
• Strong understanding of modular environment workflows, textures, materials, and PBR pipelines.
• Proficiency with modern game engines such as Unreal, Unity, or proprietary engines.
• Good understanding of lighting workflows and real-time performance considerations.
• Experience mentoring or providing artistic guidance to other artists.
• Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and iterate quickly based on feedback.
• Experience with profiling, debugging, or workflow automation is an advantage.

Benefits

Our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Commitment: Keywords Studios is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. If you require any adjustments during the process please let us know in your application. We are committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation. We especially welcome applications from candidates of underrepresented groups in the industry.

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Role Information: EN

Studio: Keywords Studios

Location: APAC, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore

Area of Work: Art

Service: Create

Employment Type: Permanent / Contract

Working Pattern: Full Time, Remote/Hybrid