Principal Vegetation Artist (Gaming)

Location: Hybrid, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Company

hirify.global is a global media and entertainment company creating and distributing film, television, streaming, theme park, and interactive entertainment content.

What you will do

• Define and maintain quality standards for trees, plants, ground cover, and ecosystem content.
• Drive the creation and implementation of vegetation systems supporting realism, variety, artistic cohesion, and scalable world building.
• Act as the vegetation expert for asset workflows, ecosystem logic, content scalability, and implementation standards.
• Collaborate with Environment, Procedural, Technical Art, Houdini, Lighting, and production teams.
• Support the evolution of vegetation pipelines, tools, and best practices while meeting artistic, technical, and performance requirements.
• Guide vegetation direction across biomes, neighborhoods, and environmental storytelling needs, reviewing content quality, risks, and production challenges.

Requirements

• Extensive AAA game development experience focused on vegetation, environment art, or ecosystem creation, including at least one published title.
• Proven ability to create high-quality vegetation for real-time environments using tools such as SpeedTree.
• Strong portfolio covering trees, plants, and natural systems.
• Strong 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.
• Excellent 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 solutions.
• Experience collaborating 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

• Hybrid work arrangement in Montreal, Canada.
• Opportunity to contribute to an ambitious interactive entertainment experience.
• Work across Environment, Procedural, Technical Art, Lighting, and other disciplines.
• Inclusive workplace culture focused on community impact and equal employment opportunities.

Hiring process

• External candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview at an hirify.global location before a hiring decision.
• Reasonable accommodations are available throughout the application and recruitment process.