Senior Concept Artist (Environment Art)

Location: Bucharest, Romania; hybrid work model

Company

hirify.global develops PC and console games, including a new third-person cozy life-sim currently in pre-production.

What you will do

• Create environment-focused concept art from initial briefs through exploration, development, polish, and production-ready imagery.
• Develop sketches, mood pieces, blockouts, and detailed visual solutions that shape the game's world, atmosphere, and visual direction.
• Collaborate with artists, designers, Art Leadership, and Production to solve creative and practical design challenges.
• Refine concepts based on feedback while considering readability, scale, cost, reuse, modularity, and gameplay requirements.
• Use modern concept art workflows, including AI-assisted tools, and contribute ideas that improve creative efficiency.
• Take ownership of increasingly complex environment concept development and deliver concepts useful to 3D, Animation, and VFX teams.

Requirements

• Proven experience creating game concept art, with a portfolio demonstrating environment concept art, visual development, and world building.
• Excellent Photoshop skills and practical experience with Blender or similar 3D software for ideation, blockouts, and concept exploration.
• Strong ideation skills and the ability to explore multiple visual solutions through sketches and developed artwork.
• Excellent knowledge of drawing, composition, perspective, color, value, proportions, lighting, visual design, shape language, and visual hierarchy.
• Understanding of game development concept art workflows and production requirements across 3D, Animation, and VFX.
• Clear communication, visual judgment, organization, and the ability to work independently and take ownership.

Nice to have

• Experience with Unreal Engine.
• Comfort with AI-assisted concept art workflows.
• Experience with character and prop design.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model with up to two months per year of full remote work from anywhere.
• MyBenefits platform allowance of 45 RON per day.
• Extra days off for seniority, birthdays, and company anniversaries, plus short Fridays ending at 4 PM.
• Medical subscription with Regina Maria and Bookster subscription.
• Inclusive, international, and multicultural environment with open communication, supportive collaboration, coffee, fruit, and relaxation areas.

Hiring process

• HR interview via Teams.
• Practical art test based on a project-like brief.
• Technical interview with the Principal Concept Artist Lead, followed by a final interview with the Studio Manager.