Environment Art Lead (Unreal Engine)

Location: Remote-friendly, with a few hours of daily overlap with US Pacific time

Salary: $152,000–$198,000 annual salary

Company

hirify.global is a global games company creating player-focused games and immersive worlds.

What you will do

• Create final-quality environment assets and scenes in Unreal Engine 5, including modular architecture, props, terrain, foliage, materials, and lighting.
• Build stylized game environments from blockout through polish, including biomes, set dressing, and hero spaces for a co-op open-world game.
• Translate the Game Art Director’s vision into environment art standards and provide specific style guidance and feedback.
• Collaborate with the Game Art Director, Concept Artists, game leads, production, and external outsourcing or freelance partners.
• Represent environment art in planning, scope work, identify risks, and make tradeoffs between ambition and delivery.
• Manage and help grow the Environment Art team, including hiring and onboarding.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience creating environment art for games, including significant end-to-end ownership on at least one shipped title.
• Portfolio demonstrating stylized environments, strong composition, material read, lighting, in-engine work, and breakdowns.
• Deep Unreal Engine experience covering level building, the Material Editor, Lumen and Nanite-era lighting, performance, and frame-budget considerations.
• Strong proficiency with industry-standard 2D or 3D tools such as Photoshop, ZBrush, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Maya, Blender, or 3DS Max.
• Experience with modular kit building and trim-sheet workflows, plus excellent communication, mentorship, and collaboration skills.
• Comfort working remotely and asynchronously across time zones with a few hours of daily overlap with US Pacific time.

Nice to have

• Small-team experience involving multiple responsibilities and independent scope decisions.
• Interest in generative AI, industry trends, and techniques that improve environment art quality or production efficiency.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-friendly team with an emphasis on collaboration and diverse perspectives.
• Great compensation package and equity.
• Medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance with 100% of monthly plan costs covered.
• 10 observed holidays, 10 days of Winter Break, and a “Take What You Need” PTO policy.
• Player-first development culture focused on creating beautiful and fun game worlds.