Lead Level Artist (Game Development)

Location: Novato, California, United States; the position is marked as remote.

Salary: $125,400–$185,580 USD per year at the start of employment in California.

Company

hirify.global develops evocative, immersive, and meaningful BioShock games for AAA audiences.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and inspire World Builders and Level Artists in collaboration with other Art Leads.
• Partner with the Art Director, Associate Art Director, Design Leads, and Narrative Leads to maintain artistic consistency and create immersive environments.
• Design and improve modular architectural systems for game levels.
• Manage day-to-day World Art Team activities, development schedules, asset lists, and external partner workflows.
• Provide empathetic feedback, support career growth, and coordinate interdisciplinary communication.
• Help deliver a high-quality AAA game world across art, design, engineering, animation, and audio disciplines.

Requirements

• 7+ years of internal game development experience focused on environmental art or level architecture.
• At least two shipped titles, preferably using UE5 or UE4, including one shipped title in a leadership capacity.
• Experience leading artists and managing career growth, goal-setting, and performance.
• Proficiency with industry-standard tools such as 3D Studio Max, Maya, ZBrush, Substance, Photoshop, game editors, and asset management tools.
• Strong knowledge of drawing or painting techniques, spatial composition, proportions, and basic architecture.
• Clear cross-disciplinary communication, mentoring ability, ownership, adaptability, and comfort with iterative design.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative development across design, art, engineering, animation, and audio teams.
• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage.
• Paid holidays, vacation or discretionary time off, sick days, parental leave, and compassionate leave.
• Wellbeing and mental health support, family planning assistance, commuter benefits, and fitness expense reimbursement.
• Eligibility for bonus or equity awards, a 401(k) plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.