Technical Artist
Netspeak Games operates as a zero-crunch, family-first studio that celebrates diversity and community. Unlimited holiday as standard.
Summary:
As a Technical artist you will bridge the gap between the engineering and creative teams. You will enable the art team to flourish by building efficient and “easy to use” asset pipelines. Collaborate with the wider art team to visually push the envelope while being an advocate for efficiency and performance. This means everything from building houdini digital assets to creating jaw dropping visual effects.
Responsibilities:
● Liaise with the wider team to build & maintain effective Maya to Ue4 pipelines. Collaborate to ensure that art content meets the artistic vision & quality bar while being efficient and optimised for our target platforms
● Create elaborate but performant shaders & visual effects that surprise and delight our audience
● Solve Complex problems (Everything from platform specific render issues to automating pipelines) & Communicate best practices to the wider art team
● Learn We’re constantly on the lookout for new tools and techniques so a pioneering mindset is a must
Your mission:
Netspeak’s goal is to build worlds that people want to spend time in. These worlds update and augment over time - and they are constantly refreshing to stay as relevant as possible. This means our content pipelines are _always_ busy! A technical artist at Netspeak thinks ahead - they plan tools, processes and guidelines that help the team move quickly, deliver high quality assets & grow our little game worlds safely around the players. Your mission is to help us push the boundaries of what a small team can do - make our games feel expensive & rich while keeping our teams relaxed & creative with your tools & knowledge.
Details:
Salary is £40,000 - £50,000 The job will come with a fancy laptop (if you’d prefer that to a desktop), as many screens and tablets as you need - and several phones for testing on. We’re fully remote; but if you want office space local to yourself we will offer up to £500 a month towards a desk in a remote location if needed. There will always be a desk for you in our London office too if ever you’re in town.
You’ll be joining a small, close-knit team of artists. Your work will be split between supporting the wider art team with tooling & curating moments of delight for our audience
You’ll be given 150 share options for passing your 6 month probationary period, which will have the value & mechanisms explained to you when you join. It’s not complicated!
We want Netspeak to be a place where people come to learn & grow - if you want courses in any of the following areas we will find time & budget to send you on them where possible!
● Management training
● Time management
● VFX for games
● Character design
● Cinematography
● Traditional art mediums (charcoals, paints etc)
● Houdini & other tools
- Department
- Art
- Locations
- London Office
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
- Yearly salary
- £40,000 - £65,000
London Office
Perks and benefits
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⚡️ Time to recharge
To do your best work, you need healthy work/life balance, headspace, and plenty of time to recharge your creative batteries! We finish early on Fridays and operate with zero-cruch. We also don't set a limit on paid time off, and make sure everyone takes at least 25 days annual leave.
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👶 Families welcome!
We offer enhanced pay support for pregnant employees.
(Weeks 1 – 12 at 100% pay. Weeks 13 - 20 at 50% pay. Weeks 21 – 24 at 25% pay. Weeks 25 – 39 at the Statutory Maternity Pay rate).
For secondary carers we offer four weeks at 100% pay. Several Netspeakers are proud parents, and we’re often happily treated to guest baby appearances in meetings!
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🎓 Monthly learning
We want all Netspeakers to grow, experiment, learn, and develop while they’re here. Every month, we devote half a day to independent learning - setting time aside to read books, attend talks, try out new things, skill up via courses & more.
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✨ Work together, play together
Our games are fun. Our workplace should be too! We’re a friendly bunch, always looking for a chance to do playful stuff as a team. We run D&D Thursdays, MTG lunches, and all Netspeakers are invited to play games together for the last hour of every Tuesday. (Expect frequent tasty treats through the post too!)
Remote first
What you bring to the table is way more important than where you sit at it. If you’ve got the stuff, you’re a Netspeaker - whether you’re working from home, our London office, your local hotdesk, or all three.
Diversity & inclusion
We’re committed to making Netspeak an equal & empowering workplace, for all.
Our internal D&I working group regularly explores ways we can better represent marginalised groups in our game, Sunshine Days. Meanwhile in the real world, we’re working hard to welcome and support staff from all backgrounds, races, beliefs, identities, sexualities & more.
We’re also dedicated to remaining open and transparent about what we’re doing to be inclusive at Netspeak, and what we still need to work on. Right now, we’re 60% female and minority genders, 30% LGBTQIA, and 20% BIPOC. Our senior team is 50% male/female and 8% BIPOC.
All work, all play
We’re an ambitious studio with big dreams! So pushing ourselves to do our best work is kind of a given. The pay-off? We really take care of our staff. Providing unlimited holiday, monthly learning sessions, early-finish Fridays & more 💛
About Netspeak Games
Hi 👋 We’re Netspeak Games - a remote-first games studio, dedicated to making wholesome social games!
Netspeak was founded on the idea that great games start with great, happy teams. So from the very beginning, we’ve made it our mission to build a company with people at its heart.
Creativity, care, and community is our DNA. Here, we celebrate our differences. Cherish our imperfections. Seek and value diversity. We’re energetic, joyful makers, daring to do things differently. And we’ve worked hard to build a company culture that empowers our team to be their brilliant, best, authentic selves.
Pooling our collective ideas, perspectives, and creativity, we build beautifully-crafted wholesome games, designed to surprise & delight! 💛
Technical Artist
Netspeak Games operates as a zero-crunch, family-first studio that celebrates diversity and community. Unlimited holiday as standard.
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