Lighting Lead

3 Months ago • All levels • Technical Art • $115,900 PA - $173,900 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Lighting Lead at Insomniac Games collaborates with the Lighting Manager to oversee and maintain the quality and artistic consistency of the lighting department. Responsibilities include supervising lighting artists, mentoring team members, developing lighting pipelines, working with other departments for timely asset delivery, troubleshooting rendering issues, and ensuring consistent lighting style across the project. The role requires a strong understanding of real-time lighting technology, tools, and pipelines, excellent communication and time management skills, and the ability to contribute to lighting content tasks as needed. The Lead will also help establish best practices and technical pipelines, focusing on performance and efficiency while considering art, animation, and design concerns.
Must have:
  • Supervisory experience
  • Real-time lighting expertise
  • Maya & Photoshop proficiency
  • Node-based shader understanding
  • Excellent communication skills
Good to have:
  • Scripting skills
  • Experience with Perforce/Jira/Shotgun
  • Understanding of physically based materials
Perks:
  • Medical, dental, vision insurance
  • 401k matching
  • Paid time off
  • Wellness program
  • Sony product discounts
  • Bonus package (potential)

Job Details

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

Insomniac is looking for our next Lighting Lead. In this role, you will be responsible for collaborating with the Lighting Manager in supervising and maintaining the quality and artistic consistency of the lighting department by upholding high visual standards set by the Art Director. The lead should display a strong aptitude and track record of working with real-time video game lighting technology, tools pipelines, and departmental production dependencies with a high proficiency in both written and oral communication and time/people management. With consideration of art, animation, and design concerns, they help to set best practices and technical pipelines for the lighting department.  This role also helps supervise production methods with a focus on maintaining performance and efficiency. If this is the opportunity you have been looking for, please read on:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

  • Develops, engages, and facilitates the success of the lighting department in a supervisory role
  • Balances supervising tasks with content creation work – lighting levels, cinematics, establishing lighting targets, etc.
  • Engages and mentors lighting artists to ensure team cohesion and helps develop both short and long-term career goals advised by the Lighting Manager and/or Senior Art Manager
  • Demonstrates technical understanding of the lighting process, driving conversations with the render team on engine features and delegates testing and implementation.
  • Works with Lighting Manager on the overall planning and scoping of the lighting needs for assigned project(s)
  • Works with other departments to ensure lighting assets are delivered in a timely manner
  • Supervises bug and task distribution and verifies critical bug fixes with lighting team, Project Management, and Quality Assurance departments
  • Help advance and improve project lighting quality through reviews of lighting work with a critical and artistic eye
  • Works with Project Management to help create and maintain clear and consistent schedules
  • Provides technical feedback to the project lighting team
  • Helps troubleshoot rendering issues and bottlenecks within lighting pipelines
  • Works closely with Art Director and Lighting Manager to keep lighting quality and style consistent across all lighting scenarios for a project
  • Ensures that all complaints and concerns related to inappropriate or unprofessional conduct in the workplace are addressed immediately to foster a safe work environment
  • Able to contribute to lighting content tasks as needed
  • Other duties may be assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities: Supervises employees in the lighting group and is responsible for carrying out duties in accordance with the studio's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include but are not limited to interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems and helps to foster a safe work environment.

Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Computer Skills:

  • Superior understanding of node-based shaders and how they relate to lighting.
  • Solid understanding of scripting lighting interactions.
  • Superior understanding of Maya and Photoshop.
  • Superior knowledge of modern lighting techniques.
  • Understands source control with Perforce or the equivalent.
  • Works with project management software such as Jira or Shotgun.

Other Skills: Superior understanding of lighting aesthetics, how lighting affects gameplay and guides the player, of real-time lighting and frame/ memory optimization, how lighting affects physically based materials.

We look forward to hearing from you. Please use the link below and apply. Thank you!

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At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location. 

Base pay is one component of our total compensation package. Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location, as well as additional compensation components, such as annual bonus, profit sharing, and other incentive plans.

In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.

Profit Sharing (PSS Only)

$115,900 - $173,900 USD

Equal Opportunity Statement:

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We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond. 

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