Director Technical Art

TL;DR

Director, Technical Art (Gamedev): Defining the visual and technical direction for next-generation mobile experiences. Focus on building tools, pipelines, and rendering solutions that empower artists to create beautiful, efficient, and scalable content in Unreal Engine and mentoring a team of technical artists.

Location: Montreal, Canada

Company

hirify.global makes award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content.

What you will do

• Lead and mentor a team of technical artists focused on delivering optimized, high-quality visuals for mobile and cross-platform experiences.
• Develop and maintain material, lighting, and rendering workflows that support both mobile and high-end platforms.
• Build tools and pipelines that enable efficient iteration and validation across a variety of device profiles.
• Establish and uphold standards for asset optimization, texture compression, and draw call management.
• Profile, analyze, and optimize content to ensure consistent performance and scalability.
• Collaborate with gameplay, animation, and VFX teams to ensure visuals support gameplay readability and responsiveness.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading or directing technical art for real-time projects across mobile or multi-platform pipelines.
• Deep understanding of Unreal Engine’s rendering pipeline, materials, and profiling tools.
• Strong technical foundation in shaders, lighting, performance optimization, and asset validation.
• Experience with both lightweight and advanced rendering techniques.
• Ability to develop tools and workflows that scale from stylized to realistic visual goals.
• Familiarity with mobile GPU Frameworks, memory constraints, and cross-platform performance considerations.

Nice to have

• Experience with next-gen rendering features in Unreal Engine 5 (Lumen, Nanite, virtual shadow maps) and strategies for scaling them across hardware tiers.

Culture & Benefits

• Company pays 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents.
• Coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match.
• Employee assistance program.
• Mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.
• hirify.global deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer.