Lead Environment Artist

We’re looking for a  Lead Environment Artist to join our award winning team in Middlesbrough (UK), home to the beautiful North Yorkshire coastline and countryside. Step into a world where your creativity shapes an iconic game. As a Lead Environment Artist at Double Eleven, you’ll be specialising in creating a diverse range of environments using all of the latest art production techniques, help schedule the creation of the assets as well as leading fellow artists on Fallout 76. If you're looking for a role that blends artistic freedom, technical innovation, and leadership on a high-profile project, this is it.

Recently, we collaborated with Rockstar Games to bring Red Dead Redemption to the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC, partnered with Obsidian Entertainment on Grounded: Fully Yoked Edition for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5 and we've enabled millions to conquer Minecraft Dungeons! In this role you will be helping our team to create new adventures for Vault Dwellers around the world.  

Double Eleven is a place where our people come first. Our 400-person team proudly represents over 30 nationalities. We strive to avoid crunch, we offer flexible working hours to allow you to truly enjoy work/life balance whilst making great games and any overtime is always planned, optional and paid. We can support UK relocation and have both a dedicated People and Operation teams on standby to assist you.   

Interested? We kindly ask all applicants to submit a portfolio to support their application. We’re afraid applications without an accompanying portfolio will not be considered and on this occasion, we’re unable to sponsor a visa for this role.

Would you enjoy

• Helping to create beautiful games
• Being part of an amazing team working on multiple AAA titles
• Being trusted to work independently and proactively to the highest standards
• Working with experienced teams in the industry

What you’ll be doing

• Work directly with Art Director and Production in coordinating art resources, schedules and priorities based on project needs
• Provide direction to environment artists for aesthetic and technical considerations
• Will need to fully understand and work around existing art pipelines
• Be hands on with the art team producing benchmark assets to style and brief of project
• Required to help lead the production and creation of art assets for the projects
• Able to communicate and deliver assets cooperatively and independently within a 3rd Party production environment
• Has expertise with PBR, lighting, rendering, and material authoring
• Collaborate with Production to prioritize work, identify issues in JIRA, and escalate them to production, ensuring tasks have sufficient information
• Reviews work for quality and carries out various supervisory responsibilities
• Proactive in finding answers and able to clearly communicate issues and direction to the team
• Capable of owning development of, and delivering, content while leading by example
• Ensure the team maintains high-quality artistic results and milestone delivery, while encouraging effective communication and professionalism
• Receives and provides critique in a professional manner
• Able to manage and mentor career development of 3D Artists at various skill levels
• Leading a team of talented artists 

What we’re looking for

• Has proven game cycle experience as a Senior or Lead Environment Artist
• Shipped at least one title as a Senior or Lead Environment Artist
• Experience in working with 3rd Party project
• Advanced understanding of 3D packages, Photoshop, Substance Designer/Painter, and Zbrush 
• Passion for 3D environment art, set dressing, lighting, and texturing
• Demonstrates excellent foundational skills, including composition, design, structure, silhouette, and colour theory
• Excellent understanding of the environment art pipeline, dependencies, and overall scope of the project
• Demonstrates an ability to work with detailed concept art or reference art materials
• Excellent leadership and mentoring abilities, as well as interpersonal skills
• Organised and practices good time management skills
• Finds creative solutions for technically challenging tasks
• Experienced in managing direct reports
• Experienced working in an Agile workflow

Qualifications

• All relevant qualifications considered

What to expect

Some of our benefits include:

Working life at Double Eleven 

• Start your day any time between 8:00am and 10:00am
• 35 working hours per week with a 1 hour lunch break (with the opportunity to flex down to 30 minutes or up to 2 hours)
• Opportunity to apply for hybrid working  (up to 2 days working from home per week) 
• 28 days annual leave (20 days annual leave + 8 days bank holiday) 
• 1 day leave for your birthday and 1 day leave if you’re moving house
• Up to 10 days discretionary annual leave during our end of year break
• Potential for annual performance bonus
• 5 additional days annual leave for 5 years service and a further 5 days annual leave for your 10 years service milestone
• A brand new, state-of-the-art studio facilities that includes a market hall serving nutritious, subsidised meals, round-the-clock gym access, an auditorium and more
• Free breakfast options, juice, hot drinks and fruit
• Employee referral bonus (up to £2000!)
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Free game codes, game swag and merchandise
• Family-friendly leave available
• Christmas Saving Scheme
• Free parking
• Best-in-class tools and workflows so you can focus on creativity Professional development and wellbeing

• Vitality Private Healthcare, discounts and rewards for you, your spouse and children (upon the successful completion of your 6 month probationary period) 
• Access to mental health and wellbeing support via Plumm (includes 4 free video therapy sessions per month for both the employee and up to 3 family members aged 18+), unlimited text therapy, courses, meditations
• A personalised development plan with dedicated support tailored to your growth and goals
• Access to an accredited Academy providing professional qualifications (and access to 500 UK discounts and offers via TOTUM when registered as a student) 
• A dedicated Workplace Experience team responsible for work environments, workplace and quality of employee life services to help foster collaboration, creativity and innovation
• In-studio wellbeing programmes and People team support

Team life 

• Free activities via our Bus Tours programme (where on occasion, partners and children are welcome to join you) 
• Many team events to celebrate team and game milestones
• Sponsored team activities including football, basketball, book club, movie club and more 
• Opportunity to contribute to our internal Employee Diversity and Equality Network
  

Ways to reach us

If you have a general query or if you need support with your application and/or an alternative way to apply, please do not hesitate to contact our Talent team at jobs@double11.com