Lead Material Artist (World/Props)

Location: Montreal, Canada

Company

hirify.global is a global media and entertainment company producing film, television, streaming, theme park, and interactive experiences.

What you will do

• Translate art direction into high-quality environment and prop materials that meet visual and technical requirements.
• Lead and manage the world material team, ensuring consistency and quality across assets.
• Define, maintain, and evolve scalable material pipelines, workflows, best practices, and reusable material libraries.
• Create and oversee surface materials, tiling systems, and modular shader approaches.
• Ensure material scalability across large environments, props, and multiple performance targets from high-end platforms to mobile.
• Collaborate with Environment, Technical Art, Lighting, and pipeline development teams to integrate materials into rendering, shading, and runtime systems.

Requirements

• Extensive AAA game development experience focused on environment material creation.
• Experience leading and managing a team of artists and serving as a Lead on at least one shipped AAA title.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality world and prop materials.
• Strong understanding of PBR workflows, surface definition, shader systems, real-time pipelines, and multi-platform performance constraints.
• Experience with modern game engines such as Unreal Engine.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Unreal Engine 5 and advanced shader workflows.
• Experience building scalable material libraries and reusable systems.
• Familiarity with procedural world-building workflows or systems.
• Experience working with outsourcing partners or distributed teams.
• Strong eye for realism, surface fidelity, and material consistency.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive workplace focused on creating diverse content and supporting local communities.
• Equal employment opportunity policy and reasonable accommodation support during recruitment.
• External candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview at an hirify.global location before a hiring decision.