Check out this week’s 80 Level Job Digest for top openings at Latent Technology, Supercell, IO Interactive, CD PROJEKT RED, Respawn Entertainment, Insomniac Games, and Miniclip.
Technical Artist (Generalist) – Unity at Latent Technology
At Latent, we’re reinventing how games are made using cutting-edge AI. We’re building a new foundation for interactive movement based on real-time physical behaviors and AI – a system that could redefine how games are created and experienced. To get there, we’re tackling some of the most challenging and beautiful problems in game technology.
We’re looking for a versatile, London-based Technical Artist who can bring this technology to life visually and sensorially inside Unity. You have a broad creative and technical background: you know how to make a scene feel right – whether that means tuning shaders, lighting, and materials, integrating characters and props, connecting sounds to in-game events, or building small moments that showcase emergent gameplay. You’re as comfortable experimenting as you are polishing, and you are passionate about finding interesting ways to showcase technology.
Requirements:
- Deep Unity experience (materials, shaders, VFX, lighting, post-processing, optimization).
- Ability to create or modify assets in Blender, Maya, or Substance 3D.
- Understanding of sound integration (Unity Audio, FMOD, Wwise, or equivalent).
- A strong eye for aesthetics and detail.
- Curiosity, independence, and the ability to experiment across disciplines.
- Self-driven/have a growth mindset: Ability to collaborate, but also take the lead and work independently when needed.
Senior 3D Character Artist at Supercell
As a Senior 3D Character Artist, you will be at the heart of our art production, working closely with our Art Director, Animators, and other artists in the team. Your main responsibility would be to create and oversee the 3D skin production for our brawlers together with our outsourcing partners. Due to the high amount of content for each update, your work would mainly consist of providing clear direction and feedback to our external teams.
The ideal candidate should have proven experience in creating high-quality 3D characters, covering the entire process from modeling to implementation within an engine. All in all, we’re looking for a strong communicator who takes ownership, is passionate about our games, and is continuously striving for better performance.
What You Have:
- 6+ years of experience as a 3D artist with a strong portfolio showcasing a wide range of styles and projects.
- Experience with stylized characters optimized for mobile performance
- Experience in managing external studios or contractors
- Must be a clear and concise communicator, able to deliver creative feedback and clear actionable guidance to others
- Excellent proficiency in Maya, including technical knowledge
- Passion for mobile games and a drive to create visually appealing content.
- Experience with pipeline management and implementation
Senior Marketing Cinematic Artist at IO Interactive
IO Interactive is seeking a talented individual to join our team in a role that will support all of our studios and projects. Currently, we are working on two exciting game projects: Project 007, a brand-new James Bond video game featuring an entirely original Bond story, and Project Fantasy, an ambitious new IP for console and PC that will redefine the fantasy RPG genre.
Who you are:
- Experienced in previz, cinematics, or video production within games or game engines.
- Proven ability to create emotionally engaging sequences that combine storytelling, composition, and pacing.
- Able to use (or learn) Maya to layout basic animations, with a strong eye for character performance and movement.
- Skilled in Premiere Pro, After Effects, and familiar with Unreal, Unity, or similar engines.
- A clear communicator and collaborator, able to work effectively with cross-discipline teams and provide constructive creative feedback.
- Highly autonomous and adaptable, comfortable managing multiple stages of production independently.
- Passionate about pushing creative and technical boundaries in game trailers and cinematics.
- Curious and growth-minded, eager to refine your craft through ongoing learning and supported development opportunities at IOI.
- Bonus skills in color grading, sound editing or mixing, visual effects, and photography are a strong plus.
Lead Lighting Artist at CD PROJEKT RED
CD PROJEKT RED is looking for a Lead Lighting Artist to join our studio in Boston to work on Cyberpunk 2, the follow-up to Cyberpunk 2077 and the next major video game in the Cyberpunk franchise. In this role, you will bring your expertise, leadership skills, attention to detail, and passion for telling stories through cinematic and emotionally engaging lighting to build and lead a team of exceptional lighting artists.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 8 years of experience in the video games industry, including at least one shipped AAA title.
- Proven experience as a Lead Lighting Artist, with a track record of mentoring and developing talent.
- Deep knowledge of performance and optimization for real-time lighting.
- Solid understanding of PBR concepts and real-time rendering techniques.
- Excellent knowledge of Unreal Engine 5.
- A portfolio that demonstrates a deep knowledge of core artistic principles such as color theory and composition, as well as the ability to convey emotion and tell stories through light.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills.
- Curiosity, kindness, initiative, and a positive and professional can-do attitude.
Senior Game Designer at Respawn Entertainment
Apex Legends is looking for a Senior Game Designer who will help us create exciting and innovative new characters. You'll work on new Legends from early prototype through release. You have experience in a live service game in character design, and have strong enough technical and scripting abilities to work independently.
Ideally, you will have:
- 5+ years of professional experience as a game designer on a multiplayer game
- Experience in rapid prototyping and iterative design
- Understanding of game feel and polish
- Solid technical understanding of scripting and 3D action game fundamentals
- Strong track record in design and balance
- Played and formed a lot of opinions about many live games
- Strong opinions on how we could do better and a drive to accomplish them
VFX Artist at Insomniac Games
Insomniac Games is looking for a VFX Artist. In this role, the VFX Artist is responsible for creating VFX to work and assist in gameplay, environment, and cinematics of a game.
Skills:
- Proficient in Maya, competent in working with joints and locators, keyframing, rigid body simulations, hard surface modeling, and UV mapping
- Proficient in Photoshop for painting and editing textures
- Proficient with node-based shader networks
- Knowledge of other visual effects software is a plus
- Good team skills, collaborative attitude, good observation skills, and the ability to use reference materials
- Ability to work independently
- Proficient in animation and timing skills
- Solid traditional arts background is a plus
Game Designer at Miniclip
We are looking for a Game Designer to join our friendly Games Studio based in Guildford.
This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your free-to-play design career in mobile: help bring new titles to market, and work on highly successful live games at a leading mobile studio!
Requirements:
- Experience designing multiple successful free-to-play published titles, preferably on mobile.
- Experience across the product life-cycle, from initial concept and prototyping through to updating and optimising a live free-to-play game.
- Good knowledge of the mobile and social game space, and solid grasp of current design techniques to deliver excellent engagement, retention, and monetisation.
- Highly numerate, with a solid mathematical background, and the ability to design virtual currencies and manage in-game economies.
- Strong grasp of mobile user-experience design, and ability to consider and empathise with many different types of players.
- Creative problem solver, with proven ability to create compelling gameplay.
- Relentlessly self-critical: always sees the pros and cons of each approach, and works tirelessly to improve design solutions. Prolific with high-quality, well-thought-through proposals.
- Able to balance between innovation and setting reasonable goals.
- Drive, initiative, and ability to self-manage and prioritise effectively.
- Highly organised, with the ability to prioritise appropriately to deliver to tight deadlines.
- Great collaborator, with superb written and oral communication skills.
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