Lead Vehicle Artist (AAA Games)

Location: Guildford, United Kingdom; hybrid work with 3 days per week on-site

Company

hirify.global is a video game development studio with offices in Guildford, UK and Utrecht, Netherlands, developing an unannounced AAA project.

What you will do

• Lead the creation of high-quality vehicles and hard-surface assets for a cutting-edge AAA title.
• Own the full vehicle art lifecycle, from blockout through final optimized in-engine assets.
• Set visual quality benchmarks and produce key assets that establish the project's style and fidelity.
• Lead, mentor, review, and coordinate internal and external artists across vehicle production.
• Define workflows, pipelines, documentation, schedules, and milestone delivery plans with production.
• Collaborate with art direction, technical art, design, animation, and external development partners to meet gameplay, narrative, aesthetic, and performance requirements.

Requirements

• Lead or Principal Vehicle Artist experience, including at least one shipped AAA title where vehicles were central to the experience.
• A portfolio dominated by realistic, high-fidelity vehicle work for modern real-time engines, including exteriors, interiors, and material detail.
• Experience planning, scoping, tracking, and shipping vehicle content to milestones, including managing outsourced production from briefing through integration.
• Deep knowledge of high-to-low workflows, modular and variant systems, damage and destruction, LODs, materials, shaders, and real-time optimization.
• Expert knowledge of Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Unreal Engine, and at least one of Maya, 3DS Max, or Blender; UE5 is strongly preferred.
• Strong art fundamentals, communication, leadership, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and artist mentoring skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Chaos Vehicles in Unreal Engine.
• Experience developing visual prototypes or establishing pipelines from scratch.
• Familiarity with outsourcing workflows, structured feedback, documentation, and asset-development best practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid working with 3 days per week on-site.
• International AAA game projects and access to cutting-edge hardware.
• Holiday accrual scheme, pension plan, life assurance, and private healthcare including dental and eye care.
• Discretionary bonus scheme and Employee Assistance Programme with wellness support.
• Regular team incentives and social events, with a focus on collaboration, innovation, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.