Lead Unreal Technical Artist állás Budapest

Responsibilities

• Technical Art Strategy & Roadmap: In collaboration with the Head of Technical Team, define the long-term roadmap for technical art, ensuring that tool development and workflow evolution align with the studio’s production requirements.
  
• Technical Empowerment & Training: Design, develop, and deliver structured training programmes and workshops for Art and Production departments to build fundamental technical literacy and reduce reliance on the technical teams.
  
• Educational Infrastructure: Create and maintain a library of instructional resources, tutorials, and "best practice" guides to foster a culture of continuous learning and self-sufficiency across the studio.
  
• Strategic Workflow Architecture: Partner with Art and Production stakeholders to proactively identify technical bottlenecks and production risks, designing and deploying scalable, show-specific solutions.
  
• Pipeline Integration & Standardisation: Oversee the transition of successful, show-specific tools into the permanent studio pipeline by coordinating closely with the In-Engine Development team.
  
• Cross-Departmental Liaison: Act as the primary technical art authority for the studio, representing the department's interests in high-level production meetings and ensuring technical feasibility in the creative pipeline.
  
• Resource & Team Leadership: Provide direction and management to the Technical Art team, overseeing task prioritisation, professional development, and the effective allocation of technical resources across various projects.
  
• Technology Evaluation: Lead the evaluation of emerging in-engine technologies and 3D software, determining their impact on the studio’s long-term technical stability and artistic potential.
  
• Compliance: Ensure all team operations, documentation, and individual performance standards comply with the Labour Code and DIGIC’s internal studio regulations.
  

• Strategic Execution: The successful delivery of the technical roadmap and the seamless integration of adaptable tools into the studio-wide pipeline.
  
• Technical Empowerment: A measurable decrease in routine technical support requests from Art/Production teams following the implementation of training programmes.
  
• Cross-Departmental Alignment: The effectiveness of technical art strategies in meeting the needs of both Art and Production stakeholders.
  
• Pipeline Scalability: The ability to transform bespoke, project-specific successes into standardised, studio-wide assets and workflows.
  
• Operational Excellence: The accuracy of technical resource forecasting and the successful management of the technical art lifecycle across multiple concurrent projects.
  
• Behavioural Excellence: Achievement of all professional expectations, including leadership, cross-departmental communication, and adherence to studio protocols.
  

Essential Skills

• Strategic Leadership: The ability to translate high-level studio goals into actionable technical strategies.
  
• Instructional Leadership: The ability to teach, mentor, and inspire technical competence in non-technical audiences.
  

• Continuous Innovation: A proactive commitment to staying at the forefront of evolving artistic techniques and technical engine capabilities.
  

• Complex Stakeholder Management: The ability to navigate the needs of Art, Production, and Engineering, balancing creative ambition with technical reality.
  

• Advanced Communication: The ability to communicate complex technical concepts and strategic roadmaps to both developers and senior management.
  

• Technical Authority: Deep, comprehensive expertise in in-engine architectures (Unreal Engine), 3D software (e.g., Maya, Houdini), and the broader technical art ecosystem.
  
• Educational Design: Experience in creating structured learning paths, workshops, or documentation aimed at technical upskilling.
  
• Pipeline Engineering: An understanding of the interplay between software development, tool creation, and the technical art pipeline.
  
• Project & Roadmap Management: Proven experience in managing the technical lifecycles of multiple, simultaneous production workflows and long-term strategic plans.
  

Desirable Skills

What We Offer

• A full-time employment opportunity in Hungary OR a freelance contract from abroad.
  
• 8 hours of work per workday.
  
• Length of co-operation may be negotiated according to your availability.
  
• Possibility of long-term cooperation Internationally recognized, world-class project.
  
• Supportive work environment.
  
• Opportunity for personal and professional development.