Lead Artist (Props) (AAA Games)

Location: Montreal, Canada

Company

Global media and entertainment company producing film, television, streaming, theme park, consumer product, and interactive entertainment content.

What you will do

• Lead the creation and implementation of props for city dressing, interiors, vehicles, and user-generated content.
• Translate artistic direction into high-quality assets supporting large-scale world building and environmental storytelling.
• Manage and mentor the prop art team through feedback, direction, and production support.
• Define, maintain, and improve scalable prop production pipelines and workflows.
• Collaborate with Environment, Lighting, Technical Art, Production, and external development partners.
• Monitor quality, risks, milestones, and production challenges across high-end and mobile platforms.

Requirements

• Strong experience in AAA game development focused on prop or environment asset production.
• Experience leading and managing an artist team through at least one shipped AAA title.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality prop creation across multiple categories.
• Understanding of production pipelines, asset scalability, modular systems, and real-time constraints.
• Experience with large-scale environments or open-world projects and collaboration across art, technical, and production teams.
• Excellent leadership, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

Nice to have

• Experience building scalable prop systems and modular asset libraries.
• Experience with Unreal Engine pipelines.
• Experience working with outsourcing teams or external development partners.
• Understanding of urban environments, prop composition, and environmental variety.
• Ability to balance artistic quality, production efficiency, and technical constraints.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position within a global media and entertainment organization.
• Work on an ambitious interactive entertainment project spanning high-end and mobile platforms.
• Inclusive culture focused on representing a wide range of communities and perspectives.
• Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation support are provided.

Hiring process

• External candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview at a company location before a hiring decision.