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Senior Character Artist

About the Company

We aim to provide an exemplary work environment, and seek well-rounded people — creative, industrious and kind — to join our team.

We desire to increase our diversity, and believe that the more our team resembles the global community of players, the better we’ll be able to understand and meet their needs.

We are committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment, where people are judged on merit.

Our development philosophy is focused on sustaining developer happiness, maximizing iteration speed, and learning from player feedback. We know from experience it is sensible to ship games without crunch-time and have done so successfully, repeatedly.

Our team is composed of veteran developers with key contributions to the development of Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft, Guild Wars and Magic: Arena. We seek team members who are enjoyable to work with and who will enhance our efforts, as we believe creating great games is a group endeavor made better with trust between teammates.

We aim to build games that will be cultural touchstones, the measure by which other games are judged. We seek remarkable people to join our team, and offer a comprehensive compensation package.

About the Role

As a Senior Character Artist at our studio you'll have the opportunity to create avatars that represent players and the characters & creatures they interact with. With your understanding of human and creature anatomy — including those the world has never yet seen — and an eye for defining shapes and silhouettes that maximize visual impact, you'll create characters that have distinctive features and strong emotional resonance.

You are a creative contributor who enjoys developing original work on your own as well as collaborating with others. You are a visual story teller who believes concept art isn't a fixed blueprint for what to sculpt, but rather a conceptual outline for how to bring a character to life.

You'll work with our artists, designers, and engineers to create compelling characters in a wide range of genres, developing all aspects of character models. You will create high-poly 3d sculpts, efficient low-poly meshes, and textures for characters, creatures, weapons and props

Your work will set the visual target for work developed by our outsourcing partners, and you'll mentor others in the creation of artwork that achieves powerful emotional responses.

You should be comfortable concepting in 3D, prototyping and texturing models. In addition to being a consummate craftsperson, you'll be an expert in applications such as Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter, and Photoshop.

Compensation and Benefits

• Equitable salaries
• Stock options in a venture-funded, early-stage company
• Fully-remote work with flexible work hours
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits (100% paid for employees / 50% paid for dependents)
• Two months parental leave after one year of employment (one month the first year)
• 401K Plan / Vanguard Investments
• Long-term (lifetime) disability insurance
• Self-managed personal time off (guideline: 4 weeks annually) plus 12 holidays
• Every Friday you’re able to perform tasks you've chosen that improve the player experience, increase your teammates’ productivity & happiness, or reduce operational & administrative burdens
• $6,000 annual stipend for continuing education, coaching and trade-show attendance
• $300 annual stipend for game purchases

We are a fully-remote company with no physical office and enable flexible days/hours.

We invite you to apply, and ask that you include your resume, cover letter and any other information you think represents your abilities. Any information you send will be used only for the purposes of evaluating your candidacy.