Associate Director building scalable OpenAI motion - production pipelines at DEPT®, a technology and marketing growth company. Managing Motion Designers while developing automation, localization workflows, and creative - production systems.
About the role
- Technical Artist building Unity pipelines, tools, and shaders for Gameloft’s Disney Dreamlight Valley. Optimizing cross-platform assets for PC and console performance.
Responsibilities
- Design tools and develop an optimal graphics production pipeline for existing and upcoming game content
- Monitor and maintain the art asset pipeline and catch issues before they reach a build
- Develop and maintain DCC tools enforcing naming conventions, triangle budgets, and UV layouts
- Author and maintain engine-side import settings for models and texture compression
- Establish and audit per-asset and per-scene performance budgets
- Profile builds on target hardware and translate findings into actionable steps
- Optimize assets when needed
- Author and maintain the project shader library using Shader Graph and HLSL
- Prototype visual effects with the Art Director and integrate them with the art team
- Investigate and fix material and shader bugs
- Validate materials across lighting conditions and target platforms
- Maintain technical sections of the Art Bible and pipeline guides
- Onboard artists to pipeline tools and enforce standards
- Triage art-to-engine integration issues
- Scope and specify new art pipeline features
- Evaluate and recommend tools, plugins, and pipeline upgrades
Requirements
- Experience contributing to an art pipeline on a shipped project
- Experience shipping on at least one console platform: Nintendo Switch™, PS5®, or Xbox Series
- Hands-on experience with platform-specific memory and shader constraints
- Proficiency with Git and SVN and merge-request-based workflows
- Strong Unity proficiency (URP), including rendering, asset pipeline, profiling, and debugging
- Proficiency in C# for editor tooling, including custom inspectors, validators, and batch processors
- Experience writing or maintaining asset validation tools
- Experience with import presets and platform overrides, including texture and mesh compression
- Scripting experience in 3ds Max, Blender, or Maya
- Familiarity with Substance 3D Painter/Designer workflows
- Solid HLSL experience in URP, including custom lit/unlit shaders and shader keywords
- Proficiency with Shader Graph and understanding when handwritten HLSL is preferable
- Understanding of PBR, color spaces, and cross-platform lighting behavior
- Experience debugging shader issues across platforms
- Experience with GPU profiling and debugging tools such as Unity Frame Debugger and Nsight
- Ability to read frame captures and identify GPU bottlenecks
- Experience with per-asset and per-scene budgets for triangles, texel density, material count, overdraw, and memory
- Experience writing and maintaining technical art documentation
- Ability to guide artists on technical best practices and review pipeline compliance
- Ability to serve as the first point of contact for artists with engine issues
- Ability to scope, specify, estimate, and deliver pipeline feature requests
Benefits
- Flexible schedule
- Friday afternoons off year-round
- Three weeks of vacation and personal days, available from your start date
- Time off between Christmas and New Year’s Day
- Group RRSP program with employer contributions
- Excellent group insurance plan
- Free 24/7 access to a virtual medical clinic
- Employee and Family Assistance Program
- Partial reimbursement of commuting costs for public transit and/or parking
- Relocation support for new employees from outside Quebec
- Referral program with bonuses
- Regular activities and prizes organized by the Social Committee
- Secure bike storage and a summer active transportation subsidy
- Daily snacks, including fruit and coffee
- Wednesday happy hours
- Game room
- Rooftop terrace
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