Established in 2004, Lakshya Digital - a Keywords Studio - is the largest interactive entertainment and game development services studio in South Asia. Our main production studios are in India, and we maintain satellite studios in Europe, North America, and Japan. We're looking for a Senior World Artist to lead the delivery of high-quality environments for an exciting sports/racing title being developed in Unity.

Working closely with the client's internal team, you'll take ownership of transforming grey-box levels into visually rich, performant game environments. Acting as both an artist and a project lead, you'll define the artistic approach, plan the work, produce clear briefs for an external art team, and oversee assets through to final implementation. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys balancing artistic quality with practical production, ensuring environments are delivered efficiently, on budget, and to the highest technical standards.

Job Overview: What You'll Do Review grey-box levels and develop a clear artistic vision that supports gameplay, readability, and the overall visual direction

Break environments into achievable work packages and produce accurate estimates for asset creation and implementation

Create comprehensive asset briefs, including reference, technical specifications, modular requirements, and quality expectations

Work closely with production to plan, prioritise, and track environment deliverables

Guide and review the work of a distributed team of environment artists, providing clear feedback to ensure consistent quality

Oversee the implementation of environment assets within Unity, ensuring they integrate cleanly with existing systems and workflows

Drive optimisation throughout production, balancing visual quality with performance, memory, and production cost

Collaborate with designers, technical artists, and engineers to resolve artistic and technical challenges





Identify opportunities to maximise asset reuse, modularity, and efficient production workflows

Maintain documentation, pipelines, and best practices to support consistent delivery across the team Requirements What We're Looking For Significant professional experience as a Senior Environment Artist on shipped console or PC titles

Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality workplace art and excellent understanding of composition, materials, and environmental storytelling

Experience planning and delivering large-scale environment production from concept or grey-box through to final implementation

Demonstrable experience creating detailed asset briefs and managing outsourced or distributed art production

Excellent understanding of modular environment construction and efficient asset reuse

Strong working knowledge of Unity and its environment production workflows

Excellent understanding of optimisation techniques, including draw calls, batching, LODs, texture budgets, memory management, and performance profiling

Strong organisational skills with the ability to estimate work accurately and manage competing priorities

Excellent communication skills and experience collaborating across multidisciplinary teams

Proactive, self-motivated, and comfortable taking ownership of environment delivery Desirable Experience working on sports, racing, or other large-scale outdoor environments

Experience leading outsourced art production or working within an art outsourcing studio

Familiarity with procedural environment workflows and world-building tools

Experience developing modular kits and scalable environment pipelines

Understanding of lighting, terrain, vegetation, and material workflows within Unity

Experience mentoring junior and mid-level environment artists Studio: Keywords Studios Location: Canada, US Area of Work: Art Services Service: Create Employment Type: Contract Working Pattern: Full Time, Remote

📌 Senior World Artist - Lakshya Digital (Canada)
🏢 Keywords Studios
📍 Canada