Senior Technical Artist_MONOPOLY GO!
Scopely · ES - Barcelona, Spain ·
- Seniority
- Senior
- Category
- Creative
- Company size
- 1000+
Senior Technical Artist on Scopely's MONOPOLY GO! team in Barcelona (hybrid), acting as the bridge between artists and developers to run the Unity asset integration pipeline. Day to day: building C# tools and shaders (HLSL/Shader Graph), integrating UI/2D and 3D assets, optimizing performance, and leading a small tech art team.
Scopely is looking for a Senior Technical Artist to serve on and elevate our new casual game, Monopoly GO! team in Barcelona on a hybrid basis.
At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.
The Monopoly GO! team is one of our key franchises and has just become one of Scopely’s largest games. The teams sit globally, with the bulk of their members located throughout Spain and the US.
What You Will Do
As a Senior Technical Artist, you will be working between our developers and artists and your main function will be to complete the asset integration pipeline, which is to take assets coming from external software suites, import them and assemble them into the development environment of the team (Unity3d)
- Participate in development of tools and solutions for our artists
- Use AI to create tools and pipeline to facilitate production
- Lead a small team of Tech Artists
- Develop C# tools to enhance integration and create asset pipelines
- Mediate between art and tech departments to ensure smooth and efficient asset integration
- Implement UI and 2D assets into Unity canvas, and sprites
- Importing and working with 3D assets and animations in Unity
- Writing shaders in HLSL and/or shadergraph for feature development
- Profile and optimize graphical , memory and CPU KPIs
- Managing, maintaining and integrating assets into versioned asset repositories
- Creating content with the internal Unity3d toolset: materials, animation controllers, particle systems, timeline sequences, cinematic content, lights and using third party plugins or internal tools
- Supporting and documenting pipelines and best practices
What We're Looking For
- Team Leadership/Mentoring experience
- Previous experience using Unity
- Experience in UI / UX design
- Knowledge of 2d illustration software such as Photoshop, Figma or Illustrator
- Experience in mobile games
- Knowledge in repository management, asset exporting/importing, optimizations, and pipeline creation
- Very strong English communication skills
- AI generative tools and pipeline experience
About Scopely
Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.
Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Scopely Explore games businesses — Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.
Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good — creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.
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