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Senior Technical Artist

Next Games is a Netflix Game Studio, focusing on creating compelling fans-first interactive experiences by combining the stories of well-known movies and shows with engaging game mechanics. An unwavering focus on fans and fun gameplay is at the core of the studio’s game development, free from the constraints of free-to-play.

Are you a skilled and passionate technical artist, with a love for mobile games? We are looking for a Senior Technical Artist to join our mobile games studio in Helsinki. If you have the dedication and skills that we are looking for, this is a unique opportunity to work with some of the world’s best-known IPs such as The Walking Dead and Netflix’s Stranger Things, as well as some other exciting unannounced projects.

What you will get to work on:

• You will be part of a tight knit games team!
• You will be responsible for helping to bring art concepts to life in ‘in engine’.
• You'll be working closely with other artists, developers and producers.
• You will be helping to set up/maintain the art content pipeline, creating easy to use tools and helping to optimise the art assets with game performance front and center in your mind.
• You will also be getting down and dirty with creating procedural tools and shaders.
• You will be an integral part of the team and you will be encouraged to express your professional ideas on how to get things done in a timely manner.

Your experience and skills include:

• 2-5 Years of shipping and working on Mobile Games in 2D and 3D
• Experience of Unity, and experience in mobile game art implementation
• Shader creation and optimisation and understanding of HLSL
• Experience in performance optimisation in Unity
• An interest in VFX / Optimisation/ and ImplementationTools programming experience/interest
• An interest in of C# is a plus

We are looking for someone with an engineering mindset, able to think of the most efficient and performant ways of bringing the games concept to life 'in build'. Naturally we are looking for you to be comfortable communicating with others as you will be working in a tight knit team of artists and developers. All of our artists have a passion for learning and bettering their skills and we hope you will too. This is a job for someone who is ready to live and breathe Next Games. You will become an essential part of our art team and there will be plenty of opportunities to grow.

We aim high here at Next Games and will ask you to do the same. In exchange, you’ll be part of a team that is great to work with, who is dedicated and passionate about what we do.

Our guiding light in growing our team is that we don’t look for a culture fit — we look for what each person brings to our collective skillset, culture and values to make them richer. Will you be the person to make us better?

Apply now.