3D Art Lead (Mobile Games)

Location: Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland; hybrid workplace

Company

hirify.global develops mobile games and interactive experiences.

What you will do

• Lead, coach and develop the 3D art team through mentoring, performance management, recruitment and resource planning.
• Own the end-to-end 3D production pipeline, including modelling, UVs, texturing, rigging, skinning, animation, Unity integration and runtime optimisation.
• Establish production standards for asset specifications, file structures, naming conventions, import settings, documentation and workflow validation.
• Review 3D work, provide technical and artistic direction, and maintain quality standards within mobile platform constraints.
• Partner with Engineering, Technical Art, Production, Design and QA to resolve pipeline issues, manage dependencies and improve delivery.
• Investigate bottlenecks and recurring problems, prototype solutions and drive improvements in efficiency, consistency, quality and scalability.

Requirements

• Extensive professional 3D art experience in games, animation, interactive media or a related field, including leadership or people management.
• Expert knowledge of real-time 3D production workflows and advanced proficiency in Maya.
• Strong experience with Unity asset integration, prefabs, materials, animation, import settings and performance-conscious workflows.
• Strong knowledge of mobile optimisation, including geometry, textures, memory usage, materials, draw calls, batching, LODs and profiling.
• Working knowledge of Substance Painter, Adobe Creative Cloud and Git, plus experience collaborating with Technical Artists and Engineers.
• Experience leading artists, improving shipped production pipelines and working in Agile game development environments.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of shaders, VFX, lighting and Unity rendering pipelines.
• Experience with licensed IP, strict brand guidelines, external stakeholders or products for children and families.
• Degree in Fine Arts, Game Design, Computer Graphics, Animation or a related discipline.
• Experience with ZBrush, Blender, Adobe Premiere, Jira, Slack, Float, Microsoft Teams or Microsoft Office.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment in Dublin.
• Cross-functional collaboration across Art, Engineering, Technical Art, Production, Design and QA.
• Emphasis on mentoring, continuous improvement, technical quality and sustainable production workflows.