Senior Technical Lighter

At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming. We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what it takes to make great games. And this is where you come in…

In this role, you can expect to be responsible for:

• Lighting Leadership, Coaching, Mentorship
• Proactive and concise communication with Art Directors, Art Leads, Design Leads, and Engineering.
• Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of current lighting technologies, constraints, and future trends.
• Establish best practices and mentor and train junior lighters.
• Lighting Artistic Development
• Craft lighting which enhances and supports the Artistic tone, Direction, and Gameplay narratives.
• Translate conceptual illustrations into real-time lighting in game.
• Work closely with other Art groups to maintain cohesive lighting between their assets ensuring lighting complements the overall design.
• Lighting Technical Development
• Enhance the look and feel of characters and game environments by using lighting technologies such as PBR, HDR, subsurface scattering, dynamic and static lighting, global illumination, and post-processing effects.
• Work with Technical Art and Rendering teams to create new tools and features.
• Optimize lighting to meet performance targets while maintaining visual quality, considering various platforms and hardware constraints.
• Troubleshoot with Art and Engineering teams to resolve lighting-related issues in the game, providing creative solutions to technical challenges.

To be successful in this role, your background includes:

• Portfolio demonstrating a strong understanding of lighting in various game environments.
• 1+ shipped titles as a Senior Lighting Artist.
• Strong understanding of lighting techniques, color theory, and composition.
• Strong understanding of Physically Based Rendering and Shading.
• Proficiency in industry-standard lighting software, such as Unity, Unreal Engine, Crytek, or other relevant tools.
• Exceptional attention to detail and a keen eye for visual quality.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Knowledge of Photography, Cinematograph, and real world lighting is a plus.
• Familiarity with 3D modeling and texturing.

Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:

• Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
• DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
• Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
• RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days with us.
• PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
• Employee and Family Assistance Program: this program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
• Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
• Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
• Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion.
• Cool spaces: Our offices are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, Prince Edward Island, and Seoul. Whether it’s summers on the rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, watching the fireworks in Montreal’s South Shore, or trying local eats in Downtown Charlottetown - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
• Giving back: Our ‘Agents of Change’ initiative is how we support the communities close to our heart, and we have several events and fundraisers every year that Agents of Change organize.
• Hybrid Work: We aim to provide flexible arrangements that suit all work styles. All teams at Kabam are hybrid work environments, with a minimum of 2 days in-office to foster team collaboration and bonding. Full-remote options are also available for certain positions within Kabam.

Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and inclusive workforce, so if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways - you could be a great fit for this or other positions.

We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!

Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology, and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.

Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal and Charlottetown in Canada, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States, and in Seoul, South Korea. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.

Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.