Lead Technical Artist - Unannounced Project

Scopely is looking for a Lead Technical Artist to join our unannounced project in person at our Culver City hub, or remotely within the US or Canada. At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing, and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people worldwide daily.

We are in the early stages of development on an ambitious, unannounced, cross-platform Strategy/MMO featuring a well-known IP. You have the opportunity to join a highly experienced team to make a lasting impact on one of the next big releases.

What You Will Do

We are looking for a hands-on Lead Technical Artist to help drive technical art direction, tools development, content pipelines, optimization efforts, and cross-disciplinary collaboration for a large-scale mobile, live service game project. This role combines active technical contribution with team leadership. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable building tools, solving complex production challenges, guiding technical strategy, supporting artists and animators, and partnering with engineering, design, production, QA, outsourcing, and co-development teams.

This is not a pure management role. We are looking for a technical leader who remains close to the work, enjoys solving problems directly, and can help make an entire development organization more effective.

What We’Re Looking For

Highly experienced in Technical Art, Tools Development, Pipeline Development, Game Development, or a related discipline. Significant hands-on experience building tools, scripts, automation, or pipeline systems. Strong experience developing tools or workflows for Unity.

Strong experience with DCC tools such as Maya, Blender, Houdini, or similar. Proficiency with C#, Python, or similar scripting/programming languages. Experience optimizing game content for memory, performance, asset size, loading, or runtime efficiency.

Strong understanding of game content pipelines, asset integration, source control, and production workflows. Experience leading or mentoring Technical Artists, Technical Animators, Riggers, or similar technical content roles. Experience working with outsourcing and/or co-development partners.

Excellent communication skills and the ability to work across Art, Animation, Engineering, Design, Production, QA, and external teams. Comfortable working with distributed teams across multiple time zones. Artists, animators, designers, and developers are unblocked quickly and supported by reliable workflows.

Tools and pipelines improve team efficiency and reduce repeated manual work. Content is easier to create, validate, integrate, and optimize. Technical risks are identified early and communicated clearly.

The technical art team is well-supported, well-prioritized, and aligned with project goals. Internal and external teams can deliver content that meets quality, workflow, and performance expectations. The project has a clear technical art direction that balances creativity, production needs, and platform realities.

Hands-On Technical Art Development Design, build, and maintain tools, automation, and workflows for both Unity and DCC applications. Develop editor tools, validation systems, pipeline utilities, and workflow improvements that increase team efficiency. Prototype technical solutions for content creation, game integration, visual systems, and production workflows.

Investigate and resolve complex technical issues across assets, shaders, materials, animation, prefabs, source control, build processes, and runtime content. Support implementation of art, animation, VFX, and gameplay-facing visual systems in-engine. Technical Leadership Pipeline Ownership Own and evolve technical art workflows from content creation through engine integration and production adoption.