Senior Technical Artist Candy Crush Saga

hace 3 semanas


Barcelona, España King A tiempo completo

**Craft**:
Art

Are you looking to join a global Technical Art community? We’re looking for a Senior Technical Artist to join the Candy Crush Saga team

**Your role within our Kingdom**:
As a Senior Technical Artist, you’ll be a key member of the tech art team, helping tackle problems, collaborate on features and workflows, building tools and pushing boundaries You will work closely with different creative crafts and colleagues within Candy Crush, but your influence stretches globally at King providing support, assistance and drive quality for key projects. This role reports to the Associate Tech Art Director.

The Senior Technical Artist generally encompasses deep knowledge of tech art craft, leading key projects and providing mentorship with responsibility to support technical art direction and processes, aligned to goals. We'll look to you to support the technical art strategy and vision to improve King’s largest game - Candy Crush.

Within the Art Organisation, we need an understanding of the capabilities and needs of multiple crafts including; engineering, game art, UI/UX design, game design, and others. A successful Senior Technical Artist has a service minded approach and has the expertise in one or more of these areas. They have worked within game development for a few years in such a way that they understand both the creative, engineering and production processes to deliver great game experiences.

**Skills to Create thrills**:
Experience
- Consistent track record of both artistic and technical creativity with a real passion for solving problems
- Deep understanding of how to optimize games content for memory and performance
- Experience in crafting various game content (animations/modelling/etc)

Knowledge & Skills
- Knowledge of one major 3D software packages (Maya preferred)
- Experience of 2D creation software (Photoshop, Illustrator)
- In
- depth knowledge of game engine workflows and a good understanding of real
- time rendering processes and pipelines (experience with GLSL/HLSL)
- Scripting ability (e.g. Pymel, Python API)

Applications have to be in English and an online portfolio demonstrating all aspects of your skills would be appreciated.

**About King**

King is the game developer behind the world
- famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as mobile game hits including Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch and Pet Rescue. Candy Crush is the top
- grossing franchise in US app stores, a position it has held for the last two years, and King’s games are being played by 245 million monthly active users as of Q3 2021. King, which is part of the Activision Blizzard group since its acquisition in 2016, employs nearly 2,000 people in game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Malta.

**A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes**

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.

**Making the World Playful**

Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and raise the bar. It’s what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid
- core and casual. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players - and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you. There has never been a better time to join us. We're dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead. If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful

Applications need to be in English.


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