As a Lead VFX Artist, you will help to develop and lead a team of VFX Artists to create amazing real-time effects throughout multiple projects. Together with your team, you will play a key role in ensuring the technical and artistic quality of our games.

Your daily tasks:

• creating stunning visuals effects for huge open world titles,
• developing strong VFX visual guidelines and libraries,
• setting up best practices, workflows, and pipelines for our VFX team, 
• working closely with other Team Leads to create FX which supports the grand vision of our products,
• influencing further development of internal technologies and artistic capabilities to reach the visual benchmarks,
• creating optimized visual effects for real-time rendering within a PBR environment,
• optimizing work and maintaining a balance between quality and performance in-game,
• managing the VFX team and sharing valuable feedback with them on a regular basis for the work/task that they are doing.

You meet our expectations if you have:

• min. 5 years of experience in creating visual special effects for AAA games,
• proven record of managing teams within the game development industry,
• great creativity, artistic skills and commitment,
• advanced knowledge of Adobe Photoshop,
• ability to create sprite animations (3D Studio Max, Maya, Houdini),
• knowledge of issues related to particle effects,
• familiarity with industry trends and standards in video games,
• good knowledge of applications for liquid simulations (3D Studio Max z FumeFx, Maya z FumeFx, Realflow, Houdini),
• experience in cooperation with programmers to achieve the best visual effects,
• very good command of English.