Senior Environment Artist (Vegetation & Natural Objects), Original IP (f/m/d)

About Us

#TEAMYAGER

YAGER makes computer games and is based in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1999 by 5 enthusiastic gamers, we combine long-term experience with a resilient and innovative spirit. We are passionate about creating online action games with rich worlds, focused on social emergent gameplay. Our mission is to give players unique moments they can't wait to tell their friends about.

About the Role

We are looking for an artist to join our team and develop amazing games with us. You will be joining the talented team to work with us on YAGER's new Original IP Project.

As a Senior Environment Artist (Vegetation & Natural Objects), you will be expected to work autonomously on building landscapes, POIs and world related props in collaboration with Level Designers and other disciplines, integrating assets in the engine and dressing up the maps. You will work closely with Lead Environment Artist and Conception Team to ensure that final content is aligned with project’s visual direction.

Would you like to be part of a passionate team dedicated to creating unique players' experience and to leave a mark in the landscape of games? We are currently seeking a Senior Environment Artist to work with us overseeing our current projects in the pipeline (will depend on your craft expertise and motivation).

Your Mission

• Building well-designed levels and scenes from a given blockout
• Integrate assets for use in the game engine
• Set dressing based on project’s visual direction or your own vision
• Asset creation from proxy phase to final shippable quality
• High to Low poly modeling, UV mapping and baking
• Ability to create textures and materials based on PBR workflow
• Collaborate with level and narrative designers to create environments which balance aesthetics with playability and technical feasibility
• Participate in cross discipline meetings and regular play test sessions with Producers, Leads and Directors
• Participate to hiring process

Your Skill Tree

• 5+ years of experience in professional game development
• A gifted eye for helping to develop and work within a designated artistic style, and to execute according to the overall art direction and project goals
• Experience with Unreal Engine tools and workflows, including setting up materials
• Excellent organic/inorganic modelling skill using 3DSMax/Modo/Maya or similar
• Solid knowledge of composition and shape balance
• Adept propagation skills, specifically with modular asset-building sets
• Ability to take and apply direction and work well in a team environment
• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing
• Passionate about videogames

DESIRABLE SKILLS:

• Thorough understanding of shader creation
• Strong understanding of architecture
• Experience with procedural content creation pipelines
• Experience with procedural tool creation in Houdini
• Experience with material creation in Substance Designer
• Experience with mentoring/teaching
  

Ready for the Quest?

We support you all the way

• Get settled. We offer relocation packages and budgets, provide temporary accommodation, administrative support and more.
• We care about your work-life-balance with competitive vacation days and core working hours
• Green travel at a discount. We have a Company Ticket benefit for the public transportation system in Berlin (BVG or DB)
• We´re pet friendly! Bring your best buddy to the office and make new friends.

We are passionate about growth

• Join a diverse & creative team! Over 28 nationalities come together to create thrilling gaming experiences.
• We´re dedicated to see you grow. Receive feedback, internal trainings, workshops and Lunch & Learns and more!

We care about your well-being

• (Mental) health matters. We work with various partners to provide you and your loved ones with support for mental & physical health, coaching and counselling and more!
• Stay fit! We offer a gym membership for FitX gyms around Berlin. The best thing about it? There´s one just a ten-minute walk from the office! Or you can choose E-GYM subscription for more flexibility instead.
• Yum! Our equipped kitchen is stocked with beverages and fresh fruits and we hold regular team events

Our commitment to Diversity

At YAGER we believe that the best gameplay stories are those shaped by other players. We know together is better and we celebrate the uniqueness and strength found in diversity. We know that an aligned and diverse team will outperform the sum of its parts.

We are committed to creating a safe working environment where a diverse mix of talented people come together to make great games for everyone and to increase diversity and inclusion in the game development industry.

Every hero has a backstory, and we welcome you to share yours with us, and become part of an inclusive team working on creating exhilarating and engaging socially emergent action games.

Is this role Remote, Hybrid or Berlin based?

This role is preferred to be on a hybrid setting on our Berlin office but can also be 100% remote.