Senior Technical Artist

SciPlay is a leading developer and publisher of digital games on mobile and web platforms, providing highly entertaining free-to-play games that millions of people play every day for their authenticity, engagement and fun.

SciPlay currently offers nine core games, including social casino games Jackpot Party Casino, Gold Fish Casino Slots, Hot Shot Casino and Quick Hit Slots, and casual games MONOPOLY Slots, Bingo Showdown, 88 Fortunes Slots, Backgammon Live and Solitaire Pet Adventure with offices all over the world!

Position Summary

The Senior Technical Artist acts as a resource within the art team, mentoring other artists in the use of Unity, optimizing asset creation pipelines, troubleshooting technical issues, and when necessary, acting as a conduit between the art and engineering teams to ensure art content is correctly integrated into the game.

As a Unity expert, you’ll be leveraging your knowledge of technical art systems to create UI prefabs, Mechanim, timelines, particle systems, shaders, materials. You’ll be supporting Live events and economy rollout to our players with our LiveOps team by packaging your assets together for dynamic delivery to players.

Essential Job Functions:

• Mentor the art team in the technical aspects of Unity asset creation
• Perform R&D for new tech required for feature implementation through creative problem solving, iterative design, and prototyping
• Assist in developing standards, processes, and proprietary tools alongside Production and Development teams
• Document processes and procedures for game features and associated Unity implementation
• Adhere to file structure in artistic source, directory, and version management
• Communicate between engineers, designers, and non-technical artists to package assets efficiently for quality products on the target platform
• Communicate with LiveOps and Configuration Managers to identify, package, create, and verify assets required to support in-game events and economy rollouts.
• Own technical delivery of assets for scheduled updates, ensuring all assets are fully tested and perform and reliably delivered against production deadlines.
• Demonstrate a strong desire to continuously improve skills through independent learning and collaboration with team members; identify more efficient processes to improve throughput
• Maintain a high degree of professionalism and receptiveness to critique from team members
• Self-manage time effectively with a reasonable degree of accountability and minimal instruction
• Create 2D assets for all aspects of the product including UI, composition, VFX, and animations
• Oversee and support with items across the art pipeline -- from asset optimization, exporting, through implementation and test

Education: 

• Bachelor of Arts in art/animation or technical degree or equivalent industry experience.
• At least 3 years previous experience as a digital artist with a considerable amount of technical responsibility.

Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Deep practical knowledge of what Unity can and can’t do especially regarding the UI system, Mechanim, timelines, the particle system, shaders and materials, optimizations and troubleshooting.
• Proficient in Photoshop, Unity, 3DS Max
• Proficient in UI Design and development in Unity
• Proficient in Unity animation systems and knowledge of event driven programming
• Proficient in implementing art into Unity prefabs complete with animations and atlases
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding of how to design art for various themes and target platform
• Working knowledge of production collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence)
• Proficient in Asset management and managing branching inside of version control systems (Git)
• Working knowledge of MS Office
• 3D experience

Level Requirements:

• Portfolio (website or blog required for pre-interview)

Bonus XP:

• Released titles that use Unity game engine
• Working knowledge of Unity’s Universal Rendering Pipeline
• Animation – 2D character specific
• Scripting ability to common art tooling (Photoshop, 3dx Max)
• C# scripting knowledge in Unity
• Scripting ability using Python

We are SciPlay! We make games!

The roots of our company are simple and strong: our founders fell head over heels for casino games and had a vision to create the most entertaining free-to-play casino games for gamers around the world. We’ve grown into a company that makes games we are truly proud of an