Director, Technical Art

<div class="content-intro"><h2>WHAT MAKES US EPIC?</h2> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p></div><h2>ART</h2> <h3><strong>What We Do</strong></h3> <p>Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.</p> <h3><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h3> <p>Epic Games is seeking a Technical Art Director to help run our tools and performance-oriented technical art team. You’ll build tools, pipelines, and rendering solutions that empower artists to create beautiful, efficient, and scalable content in Unreal Engine.</p> <h3><strong>In this role, you will</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Oversee a team of dedicated tools and performance-oriented tech artists, maintaining scheduling, tasking priority, and facilitating communication with various departments.</li> <li>Lead teams to develop new tools/processes for finding optimization opportunities and actioning on them within a continuously growing content library and code base</li> <li>Driving complex initiatives based on emerging performance, tooling, and development needs</li> <li>Create new paradigms for budgeting content to support diverse game modes and platforms.</li> <li>Plan and execute tools to support artist workflows in Unreal Engine 5</li> <li>Advise and demonstrate proper rendering techniques to bring visual parity across all platforms in an affordable way. Includes in-depth knowledge of rendering pipelines, material creation, lighting, and post-processing</li> <li>Work closely with engineering and art owners of many different parts of the ecosystem to promote collaboration and reduce duplicate work</li> </ul> <h3><strong>What we're looking for</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Proven experience leading or directing technical art for real-time projects across multi-platform pipelines</li> <li>Deep understanding of Unreal Engine’s rendering pipeline, materials, and profiling tools</li> <li>Strong collaboration and communication skills across disciplines</li> <li>Ability to mentor and grow technical art teams, fostering both creative and technical excellence</li> <li>Experienced in programming theory and scripting (i.e., Python)</li> <li>Experience not only in the analysis of profiling data (i.e., PIX, Insights), but also proactive in capturing performance data to find optimization opportunities and gains</li> </ul> <h2>EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE</h2> <p><span data-sheets-userformat="{"2":13201,"3":{"1":0},"7":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":{"1":2,"2":13421772}},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"10":0,"11":4,"12":0,"15":"Roboto","16":10}">Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.</span></p><div class="content-conclusion"><h2>ABOUT US</h2> <p>Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D conten ... (truncated, view full listing at source)