Lead Technical Artist / Artiste technique principal(e)

NBC Universal
Montreal
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Mentorship","Problem-solving","Cross-functional collaboration"]

Lead the technical art vision and standards for a project shipped on PC, console, and mobile. Own the Unreal Engine 5 technical art strategy, technical health, and content pipeline from DCC tools through Unreal and deployment workflows. Partner with engineering to build and optimize systems, pipelines, automation, profiling, and validation tooling. Lead, mentor, and grow the technical art organization while aligning art, design, animation, UI/audio, and production around scalable performance and quality goals.

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NBC Universal
NBC Universal
1 month ago

Lead Technical Artist / Artiste technique principal(e)

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Job Summary

Lead the technical art vision and standards for a project shipped on PC, console, and mobile. Own the Unreal Engine 5 technical art strategy, technical health, and content pipeline from DCC tools through Unreal and deployment workflows. Partner with engineering to build and optimize systems, pipelines, automation, profiling, and validation tooling. Lead, mentor, and grow the technical art organization while aligning art, design, animation, UI/audio, and production around scalable performance and quality goals.
Location: Montreal
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead, mentor, and grow the Technical Art organization, including hiring, performance management, career development, and technical leadership.
  • •Define and enforce technical art standards, workflows, performance budgets, and content requirements across characters, animation, gameplay, VFX, environments, UI, and audio.
  • •Own the technical art strategy for Unreal Engine 5 across PC, console, and mobile, ensuring scalable content and strong runtime performance.
  • •Partner with engineering to drive engine extensions, rendering features, content validation systems, automation, build pipelines, profiling tools, and platform optimization initiatives.
  • •Build and oversee tooling and the content pipeline strategy from DCC through Unreal and deployment workflows, including asset ingestion/validation, CI/CD integration, documentation, and onboarding.

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of professional experience in Technical Art, with 2+ years leading teams and driving technical direction across multiple disciplines.
  • •Experience shipping one or more games as a Technical Artist, ideally across multiple platforms including mobile.
  • •Deep expertise in Unreal Engine 5, including Blueprints, Animation Blueprints, Control Rig, Niagara, Material Editor, Unreal tooling frameworks, and content pipelines.
  • •Strong understanding of the technical art stack (character pipelines, rigging/skin, animation systems, VFX integration, shaders/materials, rendering, UI, optimization, and content workflows).
  • •Strong scripting skills using Python (plus MEL/MaxScript or similar scripting is a plus).
Experience:8+ yearsGamesMobileUnreal EngineTechnical artToolingVFXLive-service
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationMentorshipProblem-solvingCross-functional collaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Unreal Engine 5Unreal Engine tooling frameworksBlueprintsAnimation BlueprintsControl RigNiagaraMaterial EditorPythonMELMaxScriptDCCCI/CDHLSLShadersMaterialsProfilingRendering optimization

Company Brief

NBC Universal
NBCUniversal is a global media and entertainment company producing and distributing film, television, news, sports and streaming content, and operating theme parks and consumer experiences across a portfolio of well-known brands including NBC, Universal Pictures and Peacock.
Industry: Film & Television
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: New York City, United States
Founded: 2004
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