Technical Art Manager - Unity Graphics

Unity is looking for a manager to lead our graphics technical art team in Europe.

Technical artists at Unity play a vital role in improving our engine and our user experience. Your experience of production needs and artist workflows – along with your support and leadership – will help our team to shape the next generation of content creation tools in games, XR, and interactive media. Your insights and advocacy will help empower hundreds of thousands of creators to build new experiences and explore the frontiers of the medium.

Our graphics technical artists collaborate closely with some of the most talented graphics engineers and product designers on the planet. They envision new features and streamline artistic workflows related to shading, lighting, and visual effects. Their artwork is a fixture at industry events like GDC, SIGGRAPH, and Unite, helping to ensure that our engine can shine on everything from mobile phones to workstations. As manager of this team, you’ll work closely with Unity’s graphics leadership to help chart the future course of the Unity engine.

You’ll also support the technical and professional growth of our technical artists as you all collaborate together on solving tomorrow’s most challenging graphics problems. Unity’s positive culture is a huge asset and you’ll be a key contributor to keeping that culture healthy and empowering. If you want to play a leading role in the future of real-time 3D Graphics – and you’re enthusiastic about helping your fellow tech artists excel – this role is a fantastic opportunity.

What you'll be doing

• Contribute to Unity’s graphic strategy
• Collaborate closely with engineers and product designers to improve the content creation experience in Unity
• Advocate for more elegant and efficient workflows
• Build a healthy, empowering team culture
• Coordinate with the efforts of other Unity teams and contribute to documentation, training material, presentations, and demos

What we're looking for

• Conversant with the state of the art in 3D graphics
• Broad familiarity with modern 3D asset creation pipelines
• Good communication skills and ability to work effectively in a distributed team environment
• Have shipped two or more games as an artist or technical artist
• Have led a team of at least six people

You might also have

• Unity engine knowledge and/or prior experience as a technical art director
• Shipped on mobile or XR platforms and/or production experience with VFX or lighting
• French or Danish language skills

Additional information

• International relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.

Life at Unity

Unity [NYSE: U] is the world's leading platform of tools for creators to build and grow real-time games, apps, and experiences across multiple platforms. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the fourth quarter of 2023, more than 69% of the top 1,000 mobile games are made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1,000 games in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store. In 2023, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.