We are seeking a Senior Environment Artist to help define and elevate the quality, efficiency, and consistency of environment-art production across multiple projects.

This is a high level senior individual-contributor position for an experienced artist who can operate at both the strategic and hands-on levels. You will create benchmark-quality work, establish practical production standards, solve complex artistic and technical problems, and provide direction to environment teams working across different projects, engines, styles, and partner studios.

This role requires robust leadership, sound judgment, clear communication, and the ability to influence teams through expertise, example, and collaboration.

REQUIREMENTS

- Extensive professional experience in game development, real-time production, or a closely related field.
- Multiple shipped AAA PC or console titles
- Experience working in co-development, outsourcing, consulting, or work-for-hire game production.
- A portfolio demonstrating exceptional environment-art quality - realistic and stylized
- Expert understanding of composition, scale, proportion, visual hierarchy,



shape language, material definition, lighting response, environmental storytelling, and scene cohesion.
- Advanced experience creating modular environments, architecture, props, terrain, materials, and reusable asset systems.
- Professional experience developing environments in Unreal Engine
- Experience establishing visual benchmarks, environment pipelines, asset standards, or production workflows.
- Experience guiding other senior artists, leads, distributed teams, external partners, or vendors.
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Strong understanding of how to balance quality, scope, schedule, technical requirements, and available resources.
- Solid skills in Maya, Blender, 3ds Max, ZBrush
- Substance 3D Painter and Substance 3D Designer
- Photoshop experience

This position is currently open to candidates residing in the following Canada Provinces: Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, or British Columbia.

📌 Senior Environment Artist (Canada)
🏢 Keywords Studios
📍 Canada