System Era is searching for a Senior Concept Artist to join our creative team and help shape the vibrant worlds of Astroneer!
As the team’s primary concept artist, the galaxy of Astroneer becomes your canvas. Here you will be responsible for creating a wide variety of artwork to support the production of exciting new features and explorations across every stage of development. From envisioning fresh new worlds full of exotic flora, to the vehicles, props, and characters that are designed to explore them. Bringing these ideas to life will mean collaborating closely with the design and narrative teams to visualize and shape gameplay goals with early sketches, mood boards, and constructive feedback. Transforming pre-production work into production ready design sheets along with constructive feedback will be essential as you help guide the content team’s creation of final assets. Ensuring that assets remain consistent to the brand while also leveraging bold designs to communicate gameplay function and player interaction. And beyond individual assets, the team will look to your expertise when establishing visual paradigms used to define the look and feel of new content types. A keen eye for detail and excellent communication skills will be important as you work to balance the overall art style with the needs of the games unique diegetic UI.
On this journey you will be collaborating with a highly motivated team of individuals who are each responsible for contributing to the growth and well-being of the project and studio through open and honest discussion. We look for candidates who value joining a team with diverse backgrounds, experiences, interests, and viewpoints, so we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification, as long as you believe you have something positive to contribute.
This is a full-time position. Compensation includes salary, benefits with full medical, vision, and dental coverage, 401k with company match, generous PTO policy, participation in profit sharing, equipment budget for remote work, and may include relocation assistance.
Please note that due to COVID-19, the System Era team is currently working remotely. As it becomes safe and reasonable to do so, the studio will transition to a hybrid work schedule combining both on-site and remote work. Unless otherwise noted, all our open positions will begin as remote work, but with the expectation of eventual co-location with the team in Seattle, WA. New employees from outside of Washington state will be expected to establish residency in Washington within 14 days of their start date.
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