About the job
Department: Game DevelopmentEmployment Type: Full Time
Location: Austin, Texas - Gaming Headquarters
Reporting To: Lead Technical Artist
Description
Everi, a leading gaming company, is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Technical Artist II to join our dynamic team. As a Technical Artist II, you will play a pivotal role in the integration and optimization of art assets within our games, ensuring the highest standards of performance and visual quality. You will collaborate closely with technical artists, engineers, and other cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional gaming experiences. If you're passionate about art, technology, and gaming, we want to hear from you.
What Will You Be Doing?
- Actively collaborate with technical artists and engineers to implement art assets effectively.
- Serve as a liaison between art and engineering teams, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance of visual assets.
- Troubleshoot and resolve art-related bugs during production.
- Communicate effectively with team members, including written documentation of pipeline processes.
- Provide technical support to the art team, addressing any issues.
- Collaborate across departments to achieve joint goals.
- Review creative processes, propose efficiency improvements, and integrate new technologies.
- Adhere to file structure guidelines and version management.
- Mentor less experienced technical artists.
- Contribute to a culture of ownership and continual improvement through knowledge sharing and participation in agile development practices.
- Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Arts, 2D Animation, Motion Graphics, or similar discipline preferred or a combination of education and equivalent work experience in a related field.
- 1-2+ years' experience in 2D illustration, animation, and graphic design. (Industry experience highly preferred.)
- Portfolio and/or demo reel showing your range of style and attention to detail.
- Knowledge of casino game design, mobile game design or video game creation is a plus.
- Experience utilizing tools like Spine, Unity, Cocos, Adobe After Effects; Adobe Suite - Photoshop, After Effects, and Illustrator.
- Technical background in developing scripts, actions, and other automation tools necessary for art implementation and optimization desirable.
- Dev Ops experience.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, dental, vision, pet insurance, gym reimbursement, and more!
- Retirement savings plan with employer match.
- Discretionary Time Off (DTO) - No more "banking hours" to take a day off and the perfect way to prevent burnout and improve productivity.
The compensation for this role considers a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential for the location at which the position may ultimately be filled. At Everi, it is not typical for all individuals to be hired at or near the end of the range; compensation decisions depend on each case's facts and circumstances. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $66,000 - $74,200 annually.
Everi is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants and employees will be afforded equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, or any other characteristic or class protected by federal, state, or local law.
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