Principal Vegetation Artist I Artiste Principal.e Végétation

Location: Montreal, Canada. The role is full-time and includes potential in-person interviews at an hirify.global location.

Company

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

What you will do

• Define and maintain vegetation quality standards for trees, plants, ground cover, and ecosystems.
• Drive the creation and implementation of vegetation systems supporting realism, variety, artistic cohesion, and scalable world building.
• Act as the subject-matter expert for vegetation workflows, ecosystem logic, and content scalability.
• Collaborate with Environment, Procedural, Technical Art, Houdini, Lighting, and production teams.
• Guide vegetation pipelines, tools, best practices, biome direction, and environmental storytelling.
• Review vegetation content and manage quality, technical requirements, performance risks, and production challenges.

Requirements

• Extensive AAA game development experience focused on vegetation, environment art, or ecosystem creation, including at least one published title.
• Expertise creating high-quality vegetation for real-time environments with tools such as SpeedTree.
• Strong portfolio covering trees, plants, and natural systems.
• Understanding of vegetation pipelines, scalability constraints, real-time performance, modern game engines, and implementation workflows.
• Experience with ecosystem thinking, environmental composition, world building, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with large-scale or open-world productions and procedural ecosystem workflows.
• Experience with Houdini, SpeedTree, Unreal Engine pipelines, or similar vegetation authoring tools.
• Experience working with outsourcing partners or distributed teams.
• Strong artistic sensitivity to realism, biodiversity, and environmental storytelling.
• Ability to bridge creative and technical constraints and explore innovative solutions.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within an inclusive culture focused on creating diverse, high-quality content.
• Opportunity to contribute to an ambitious interactive entertainment experience.
• Collaboration across multidisciplinary teams and large-scale world-building workflows.
• Reasonable accommodation is available during the application and recruitment process for qualified candidates with disabilities.