believer - Environment Art Lead
Requirements
• 6+ years of experience in environment art creation for games, with at least one shipped title where you owned significant environment work end to end • A portfolio that shows both range and control: stylized environments with strong composition, material read, and lighting — not just isolated props. In-engine work and breakdowns strongly preferred • Deep Unreal Engine experience: level building, the material editor, Lumen/Nanite-era lighting and performance considerations, and a working understanding of how art decisions affect the frame budget • Strong proficiency in industry-standard 2D or 3D software such as Photoshop, ZBrush, Substance Painter and Designer, and Maya, Blender, or 3DS Max. Modular kit-building and trim-sheet workflows should be second nature • Excellent communication, mentorship, and collaboration skills, and comfort working remotely and asynchronously across time zones with a few hours of daily overlap to US Pacific • Small-team experience, where you wore multiple hats and made scope calls without a playbook • Please note - research shows that certain groups of candidates may not apply to jobs unless they meet every single requirement. If you see yourself at Believer but don't check every requirement, we would still love to be in touch with you for current and future opportunities.
Responsibilities
• Create final-quality environment assets and scenes in Unreal Engine 5 — modular architecture kits, props, terrain, foliage, materials, and lighting — from blockout through polish, and set the bar for the rest of the team • Collaborate with the Game Art Director, Concept Artists, and other game leads to ensure environment art aligns with the project's overall visual direction and creative vision • Provide regular, specific style guidance and feedback to the environment artists, keeping their work coherent with the art direction and with each other, and review environment assets to ensure they meet quality standards • Represent environment art in planning: scope work with production, flag risk early, and make the tradeoffs between ambition and delivery visible • Manage the Environment Art team and coordinate with outsourcing or freelance partners when we use them, helping to hire and onboard as the team grows • Stay up to date with industry trends and advancements in environment art, particularly around generative AI, and recommend new techniques or tools that could improve the quality and efficiency of environment art production
Benefits
• Making great games is hard, so we do our best to make the other parts less hard. • Medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance. Believer pays 100% of monthly costs for these plans • 10 observed holidays + 10 days for Winter Break and "Take What You Need" PTO policy • Remote-friendly team #LI-Remote • We are committed to continuing to expand our benefits and perks to support all Believers
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