Epic Games seeks an experienced Hard Surface Outsourcing Lead to supervise hard surface content from outsource partners.  Collaborating with Art Leads and reporting to the Director, this role involves providing creative feedback, documenting pipelines, creating blockouts and exemplar assets, and communicating effectively with vendors and internal teams. Responsibilities include defining creative direction, vendor evaluation and onboarding, asset quality control, pipeline integration, bug resolution, and occasional hands-on art production within the Epic pipeline.  Experience shipping AAA titles across multiple platforms and proficiency in 3D software (Maya, 3ds Max, Zbrush, Photoshop, Substance) are crucial. 

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<span class="sc-jXbUNg btmRVe ue-rich-text  loc-en-US"><div class="content-intro"><h2>WHAT MAKES US EPIC?</h2>
<p>At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.</p>
<p>Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.</p></div><h2>ART</h2>
<h3><strong>What We Do</strong></h3>
<p>Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.</p>
<h3><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h3>
<p>Epic Games is searching for an experienced Hard Surface Outsourcing Lead to support and supervise creative hard surface content provided by outsource partners. Working alongside Hard Surface Art Leads, and reporting to the Hard Surface Director, the Outsource Lead will provide front-line creative feedback for work submitted for Epic review. Though the role will be mainly supervisory, the individual should be an experienced artist, having worked in AAA titles before, and have a solid hands-on art background, with a very strong foundation of 3D modelling for both hard and soft surfaces. The ideal candidate would be a talented 3D artist who is able to communicate equally effectively, both with outsource partners and internal teams, to ensure the timely delivery of high quality assets to the next stage in the art pipeline. Their skills will include; a keen artistic eye for ‘clean’ 3D modelling, documenting existing pipelines, creating blockouts, paintovers and exemplar assets and, ultimately, providing clear visual feedback to vendors at each stage of the process.</p>
<h3><strong>In this role, you will</strong></h3>
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<li>Work closely with the HS Director and HS Art Leads to pull together clear creative direction for the assets to be created, and then ensure this information is packaged and conveyed to the Vendor as clearly as possible. Work with Directors, Production, and internal partners to evaluate, hire, and onboard vendors</li>
<li>Collect or generate detailed documentation, video reference, and examples of art asset production, procedures, and engine requirements to support the external vendors</li>
<li>If required, making any needed fixes to keep assets consistent and technically game ready as they’re handed off from the outsource partner</li>
<li>Clearly communicating modeling and paint feedback to the outsource partner, and ensuring those creative notes and goals are met. Informing leadership in the event that isn’t happening</li>
<li>Communicating and partnering with the HS implementation team ensuring outsourced assets are ingested into the pipeline and engine correctly</li>
<li>When required, some amount of hands-on art production delivering assets for the project, ensuring they are familiar with and capable of working inside of the Epic pipeline</li>
<li>Bug support, triage, and resolution for any art assets that have been created by the outsourcing team</li>
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<h3><strong>What we're looking for</strong></h3>
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<li>Experience in shipping AAA titles across multiple platforms</li>
<li>Experienced shipping 3D production assets for games in either character, weapon, or prop disciplines</li>
<li>Experienced in game art asset creation in a variety of software packages including Maya, 3ds Max, Zbrush, Photoshop, Substance, etc</li>
<li>Experience in modeling, creating UV's and texturing is essential</li>
<li>Must be highly organized, self-driven, customer focused, and a great team player</li>
<li>Must be a clear and concise communicator, able to deliver complex creative feedback across external vendor locations</li>
<li>Experienced working within a team and a high pressure production environment</li>
<li>You’re user-focused, passionate, solutions-focused, and innovative</li>
<li>A PLUS - Fluency in a languages other than English, including Chinese, German, Spanish, Italian, or Russia</li>
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<h2>EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE</h2>
<p><span data-sheets-userformat="{" 2":13201,"3":{"1":0},"7":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":{"1":2,"2":13421772}},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"10":0,"11":4,"12":0,"15":"roboto","16":10}"="">Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance &amp; a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees &amp; dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.</span></p><div class="content-conclusion"><h2>ABOUT US</h2>
<p>Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.</p>
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