Lead Real-Time Environment Artist

Keywords Studios Plc; Orlando (FL); Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote/hybrid and in-office options

3 weeks paid leave

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Sick leave

Job summary

GameSim is seeking a Principal Environment Artist to elevate environment-art production across projects. You will lead strategic and hands-on work, setting benchmarks, guiding teams, and solving complex artistic and technical challenges with internal and partner studios.

You will collaborate with Art Directors, Production, and Engineering to translate creative goals into actionable environment-art strategies, mentoring teams and driving consistent quality across diverse project scopes.

Qualifications

• Extensive professional experience in game development or real-time production.
• Multiple shipped games or comparable real-time projects.
• A portfolio demonstrating high-quality environment-art with strong production judgment.
• Strong understanding of composition, scale, visual hierarchy, and environmental storytelling.
• Advanced experience creating modular environments, architecture, props, terrain, materials, and reusable asset systems.
• Experience developing environments in Unreal Engine or another modern real-time engine.
• Ability to balance quality, scope, schedule, technical requirements, and resources.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality real-time environments, architecture, modular kits, hero assets, materials, terrain, foliage, and world-building content.
• Produce benchmark assets and scenes that communicate expectations for composition, scale, visual hierarchy, material quality, and storytelling.
• Translate art direction and client feedback into clear production goals.
• Establish environment-art strategies for modular construction and asset reuse.
• Maintain hands-on contribution while setting quality standards and solving problems.
• Evaluate environment artwork and provide actionable feedback through reviews and in-engine examples.

Skills

Environment art

Leadership

Mentorship

Client communication

Portfolio review

Tools

Maya/Blender/3ds Max

ZBrush

Substance Painter/Designer

Photoshop

Unreal Engine 5

Perforce

Jira/Confluence/Miro

Job description

GameSim is seeking a Principal Environment Artist to elevate environment-art production across projects. You will lead strategic and hands-on work, setting benchmarks, guiding teams, and solving complex artistic and technical challenges with internal and partner studios.

You will collaborate with Art Directors, Production, and Engineering to translate creative goals into actionable environment-art strategies, mentoring teams and driving consistent quality across diverse project scopes.