Technical Artist

Company Summary

Product Madness is a Global Powerhouse where the greatest mobile games and experiences are crafted by world-class talent. A top-grossing leader in free to play mobile games, we have more than 800 team members working across seven global talent hubs including London (headquarters), USA, Canada, Spain, Poland and Ukraine. With remarkable hit games including Heart of Vegas, Cashman Casino, Lighting Link and Big Fish Casino, we boast more than 50 million active users and 400 million downloads and counting.

We are Mad about games and the way they bring people together, and that passion and culture is what brings us together as a studio, connects us with our partners we collaborate with, and is what links us to our sister studios across the world.

Product Madness is an Aristocrat Technologies company within its digital game’s division of Pixel United.

Job Posting Title

Technical Artist

Summary

We’re looking for a talented, creative and enthusiastic Tech Artist to join us on a new title that is currently in production. In this role you will work closely with Art Direction, FX, Engineering, and Production. You will be primarily responsible for content integration, Unity content assemblage, communication and coordination related to our features. This individual must be someone who is flexible, an eager problem solver and who is looking to take on new challenges.

What You’ll Do

• Integrate content optimized for mobile platforms

• Anticipate potential technical limitations & develop innovative solutions

• Assemble Unity prefabs, animations, & animator state machines

• Collaborate with and assist engineers, artists, and technical artists on tools generation and workflow improvements

• Provide technical workflow and optimization best practices support for our inhouse artists & partners

• Create source file templates & workflow documentation

What We’re Looking For

Required:

• Demonstrated expertise with Unity Universal Rendering Pipeline

• Highly knowledgeable with prefab workflows and best practices

• Strong understanding of 2D pipelines for mobile applications

• Content integration & file/folder restructuring

• Technically focused for investigations & executions

• Intermediate knowledge of one or more common scripting languages

Nice to have:

• Intermediate knowledge of Photoshop

• Experience with using Spine 3.8+

• Intermediate level of C# for tool generation & feature upkeep

• Experience creating shaders using Unity Shader Graph

Mad Benefits

• Flexibility: Hybrid & fully flexible working schedules

• Health Benefits: Health care coverage starting on your first day of employment with competitive healthcare plans paid 100% by Product Madness + 10 sick/personal days per year

• Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and virtual Health care offered through our healthcare provider

• Financial Wellbeing: 100% match up to 4% on Group RRSPs + SuperShare eligibility where for every 2 Aristocrat Technologies (ATI) shares you buy, up to the set maximum, you will receive 1 for free (in 2 years’ time)

• Team Member Assistance Fund: Up to $1,000 annually in financial support if you fall on hard times and need financial assistance

• Learning & Development: 1 company-sponsored Linkedin Learning License for every team member + company-sponsored learning and development

WhyProduct Madness?

Product Madness is so much more than just a Pool table and a foosball game.

We believe in an honest and transparent approach with our teammates. Company wide weekly Town Halls, All Hands and strategy meetings are just a few ways in which we encourage an open and honest path to achieving complete transparency.

Despite a pandemic, there isn’t a day where we don’t feel connected to one another.

With frequent events, workshops, giveaways, slack coffee and donut sessions we have definitely brought on our office culture to this new virtual world of zoom calls.

We also try to cater for all our staff’s needs – be that a freshly brewed cappuccino made by our professional barista in our free coffee shop or by providing a bountiful supply of tasty snacks to keep us refueled and buzzing.

We love to organise plenty of social get-togethers and action-packed activity days, be it slipping inside an inflatable bumper ball for a mad session of football zorbing or throwing caution to the wind and traversing giddy treetop rope courses at Go Ape. On top of these team-building activities, our lunch and learn workshops, not to mention the lavish Christmas and summer parties, foster that ‘work hard, play hard’ mantra. Our offices are based in the heart of the metropolises of London and Lviv, surrounded by an abundance of diversity and inspiration to keep those ideas flowing.

Our Values

• People First

  We have the deepest respect for our people and their well being. We know they are exceptionally talented and will always have a choice. We want them to re-choose us every day. We are committed to building a culture where each person’s voice will always be heard and addressed.

• MAD for More

  Always improving, innovating and never settling for the existing. We push all boundaries with courage and ambition to become the world’s best games company.

• Champion Together
  We excel at what we do but yet remain humble and helpful to our teammates. We champion one another and hold each other to high standards without any egos.

• Globally Inclusive

  We are all Equal - regardless of the language we speak, where we live, our gender, religion or culture we come from. We want to build a global home, where everyone has the equal opportunity to make an impact.

• Customer Focused

  We always think from the customer’s perspective - be it players or internal customers.

  Improving their experience and joy is what drives us. Every client’s success is our big win!