Creative Director shaping Brainrider's scalable creative production network in Canada. Ensuring brand consistency, quality standards, and collaboration across clients and global studio partners.
About the role
- Art Director at VOLTA guiding the visual direction for AAA game environments and props. Leading a team and ensuring quality production in game development projects.
Responsibilities
- Define and uphold the visual direction for environment and prop production across projects, IPs, and styles
- Own and elevate the full environment pipeline—from props creation to full level development; including hero props, set dressing, environment kits, foliage, terrain, lighting and simulation.
- Guide the creation of environments, props, modular kits, trim sheets, and supporting visual elements with strong attention to function, scale, and storytelling
- Ensure consistency across large-scale worlds, maintaining alignment between artistic vision, gameplay needs, and technical constraints
- Work directly in Unreal Engine 5 to review, troubleshoot, and guide environment production in-engine
- Set clear quality benchmarks and review/approve work before client delivery
- Lead, mentor, and develop environment and prop artists across varying experience levels
- Provide clear, actionable feedback through reviews, paintovers, and in-engine guidance
- Maintain visual consistency across distributed or large production teams
- Collaborate closely with production, design, engineering, and external clients to align on scope, priorities, and delivery expectations
- Support project planning, scoping, and milestone definition with a clear understanding of risk and dependencies
- Balance creative ambition with production realities—timelines, budgets, memory constraints, and engine performance
- Proactively identify production risks and propose practical, solution-oriented paths forward
- Help define and refine pipelines, workflows, and documentation to improve scalability and efficiency
- Partner with pipeline and tech teams to support engine integration and workflow optimization
- Contribute to hiring, team structure, performance evaluation, and artist development
- Support client-facing discussions, creative alignment, and escalation handling when needed
- Contribute to early project strategy, bidding, and feasibility assessments where required
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- 10+ years in the video game industry with multiple shipped AAA titles in a Lead or Art Director role focused on environments and props
- Proven ability to own the full environment production pipeline from concept/blockout through to final in-engine polish
- Deep expertise in environment workflows including modular construction, trim sheets, asset optimization, memory budgets, and engine integration
- Strong hands-on experience with Unreal Engine 5, including in-engine review, troubleshooting, and production guidance
- Demonstrated experience mentoring environment and prop artists with clear, actionable feedback
- Strong client-facing experience working directly with external Art Directors and cross-functional teams
- Solid understanding of production realities—scoping, risk management, and pipeline dependencies
- Ability to operate effectively in a French-speaking work environment
- Strong communication skills—clear, direct, and able to align teams without friction
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple priorities in fast-paced production environments
- A grounded, solution-oriented mindset with strong critical thinking and decision-making ability
- Passion for games, with the ability to balance creative ambition with production constraints
- Proficiency with industry-standard tools and workflows, including:
- Autodesk Maya, 3ds Max, Blender
- ZBrush
- Substance 3D Painter & Designer
- Unreal Engine 5, Unity
- Houdini, Gaea, World Machine
- Marmoset Toolbag, SpeedTree
- Marvelous Designer
- Photoshop
Benefits
- 3 floating weeks + 1 week during holidays (studio closure)
- 8 statutory holidays
- Full insurance coverage
- 5 paid sick days
- Social club
- Employer’s contribution to RRSP (retirement plan) after one year in Canada
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