Lead Hard-Surface Artist

We’re looking for a Lead Hard-surface Artist to join our award winning team in Middlesbrough (UK), home to the beautiful North Yorkshire coastline and countryside. Step into a world where your creativity shapes an iconic game. As a Lead Hard-surface Artist at Double Eleven, you’ll be specialising in creating a diverse range of assets using all of the latest art production techniques, help schedule the creation of the assets as well as leading fellow artists If you're looking for a role that blends artistic freedom, technical innovation, and leadership on a high-profile project, this is it.

Recently, we collaborated with Rockstar Games to bring Red Dead Redemption to the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC, partnered with Obsidian Entertainment on Grounded: Fully Yoked Edition for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5 and we've enabled millions to conquer Minecraft Dungeons! In this role you will be helping our team to create new adventures for Vault Dwellers around the world.  

Double Eleven is a place where our people come first. Our 400-person team proudly represents over 30 nationalities. We strive to avoid crunch, we offer flexible working hours to allow you to truly enjoy work/life balance whilst making great games and any overtime is always planned, optional and paid. We can support UK relocation and have both a dedicated People and Operation teams on standby to assist you.   

Interested? We kindly ask all applicants to submit a portfolio to support their application. We’re afraid applications without an accompanying portfolio will not be considered and on this occasion, we’re unable to sponsor a visa for this role.

Would you enjoy

• Helping to create beautiful games
• Being part of an amazing team working on multiple AAA titles
• Being trusted to work independently and proactively to the highest standards
• Working with experienced teams in the industry

What you'll be doing

• Work directly with Art Director and Production in coordinating art resources, schedules and priorities based on project needs
• Provide direction to asset team artists for aesthetic and technical considerations
• Will need to fully understand and work around existing art pipelines
• Be hands on with the art team producing benchmark assets to style and brief of project
• Required to help lead the production and creation of art assets for the projects
• Able to communicate and deliver assets cooperatively and independently within a 3rd Party production environment
• Has expertise with PBR, lighting, rendering, and material authoring
• Collaborate with Production to prioritize work, identify issues in JIRA, and escalate them to production, ensuring tasks have sufficient information
• Reviewing work to meet the technical requirements and following best practices for the highest quality
• Proactive in finding answers and able to clearly communicate issues and direction to the team
• Capable of owning development of, and delivering, content while leading by example
• Ensure the team maintains high-quality artistic results and milestone delivery, while encouraging effective communication and professionalism
• Receives and provides critique in a professional manner
• Able to manage and mentor career development of 3D Artists at various skill levels
• Leading a team of talented artists

What we're looking for

• Has proven game cycle experience as a Senior or Lead Artist
• Shipped at least one title as a Senior or Lead Artist
• Experience in working with 3rd Party project
• Advanced understanding of 3D packages, Photoshop, Substance Designer/Painter, Zbrush and Marmoset Toolbag
• Excellent knowledge with unwrapping, modifying, and creating UVs
• Passion for highly detailed 3D assets and texturing for game ready assets
• Demonstrates excellent foundational skills, including composition, design, structure, silhouette and colour theory
• Excellent understanding of the hard-surface art pipeline, dependencies and overall scope of the project
• Demonstrates an ability to work with detailed concept art or reference art materials
• Excellent leadership and mentoring abilities, as well as interpersonal skills
• Organised and practices good time management skills
• Finds creative solutions for technically challenging tasks
• Experienced in managing direct reports
• Experienced working in an Agile workflow

Qualifications

• All relevant qualifications considered

Working life at Double Eleven

• Start your day any time between 8:00am and 10:00am
• 35 working hours per week with a 1 hour lunch break (with the opportunity to flex down to 30 minutes or up to 2 hours)
• Opportunity to apply for hybrid working  (up to 2 days working from home per week) 
• 28 days annual leave (20 days annual leave + 8 days bank holiday) 
• 1 day leave for your birthday and 1 day leave if you’re moving house
• Up to 10 days discretionary annual leave during our end of year break
• Potential for annual performance bonus
• 5 additional days annual leave for 5 years service and a further 5 days annual leave for your 10 years service milestone
• A brand new, state-of-the-art studio facilities that includes a market hall serving nutritious, subsidised meals, round-the-clock gym access, an auditorium and more
• Free breakfast options, juice, hot drinks and fruit
• Employee referral bonus (up to £2000!)
• Electric Car Scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Free game codes, game swag and merchandise
• Family-friendly leave available
• Christmas Saving Scheme
• Free parking
• Best-in-class tools and workflows so you can focus on creativity Professional development and wellbeing

Professional development and wellbeing

• Vitality Private Healthcare, discounts and rewards for you, your spouse and children (upon the successful completion of your 6 month probationary period) 
• Access to mental health and wellbeing support via Plumm (includes 4 free video therapy sessions per month for both the employee and up to 3 family members aged 18+), unlimited text therapy, courses, meditations
• A personalised development plan with dedicated support tailored to your growth and goals
• Access to an accredited Academy providing professional qualifications (and access to 500 UK discounts and offers via TOTUM when registered as a student) 
• A dedicated Workplace Experience team responsible for work environments, workplace and quality of employee life services to help foster collaboration, creativity and innovation
• In-studio wellbeing programmes and People team support

Team Life

• Free activities via our Bus Tours programme (where on occasion, partners and children are welcome to join you) 
• Many team events to celebrate team and game milestones
• Sponsored team activities including football, basketball, book club, movie club and more 
• Opportunity to contribute to our internal Employee Diversity and Equality Network

Ways to reach us

If you have a general query or if you need support with your application and/or an alternative way to apply, please do not hesitate to contact our Talent team at [email protected]