Lead Technical Artist

We are putting together a new team for a project that aims to speed up the development of exciting features for the students and teachers using Labster. We are looking for a Lead Technical Artist (Unity) to help us deliver a high performance experience.This is your chance to join an early stage project within a successful startup/ scale-up and shape the project's future. We are using Unity as the main game engine for our product and we are looking to rebuild our asset creation pipeline and asset lifecycle management to enable us to create an amazing experience for our users.

Responsibilities:

• Defining and implementing asset pipeline and workflows from several content creation tools to ingestion and management in Unity engine in collaboration with the art and engineering team
• Understanding technical and art needs to define a balance between the two for the content creation and content management process
• Creating and optimizing graphical assets and shaders in collaboration with the art team
• Defining and implementing asset tooling inside Unity in collaboration with engineering, content creators and product
• Driving and participating in conversations and decisions regarding asset creation, management and optimization
• Constantly evolving and improving assets, pipelines and workflows to utilize Unity latest features
• Fostering a technical art community involved in constant exchange of ideas, best practices, skills and innovation across team

Skills:

• 3+ experience with Unity3D. Deep understanding of Unity asset management and configuration workflows
• Effective verbal and written communication skills with the capacity to adapt the communication style to suit different audiences
• Deep understanding of Unity Asset bundles and Addressable asset systems
• Strong knowledge of Unity universal render pipeline, shaders, materials and lighting
• Strong knowledge of WebGL, Android, iOS platform requirements and limitations regarding graphical assets
• You have been part of shipping multiple titles or products preferably on mobile platforms and tool packages using Unity3D
• Experience working with FBX format and content creation tools, preferably Blender
• Experience optimizing graphical assets and shaders in Unity mobile platforms
• Experience working with Git version control

Bonus skills

• Experience with gamified education
• Experience with content creation tools 2D or 3D
• Experience of working with VR
• Experience in character design and character animation
• C# coding experience
• Understanding of asset build processes and product release cycle
• Experience using one or more commercial game engines

Why Labster.

We are Labster. Creators of virtual science lab software that makes learning engaging, effective and accessible, to as many students as possible. We exist to empower the next generation of scientists to change the world. It’s our mission to support 100 million science learners globally by 2025.

In the same way our technology empowers students, we thrive on an autonomous and innovative culture based on Holacracy, and ensuring that your work fits into your lifestyle.

We encourage individual expression, boldly challenge how it’s always been done, and foster learning, creativity and growth. How you work is in your control, balanced by the comfort of access to like-minded, inspiring people, when you need it.

What’s in it for you?

• Be a part of making science accessible and engaging to the world’s future scientists
• Embrace the autonomy of Holacracy, and work that fits into your lifestyle
• Generous, inclusive parental leave policy
• Work with flexibility
• Unlimited paid vacation (which we encourage you to actually take!)
• Learning budget & freedom to decide what you learn!
• Company-wide equity program
• Opportunities to travel and meet your colleagues from around the world!