Technical Art Director

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United States

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8 days ago

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Technical Art Director

Pickford AI

Role Description We’re looking for a senior Technical Art Director to own the bridge between product, engineering, ML, design, and art. This role is for someone who can translate creative vision into a practical, scalable art pipeline. You’ll help define how our characters, animations, environments, and visual systems should look and function, while making sure the assets we receive from external artists are beautiful, performant, production-ready, and technically compatible with our systems. A major focus of this role will be animation: - Character rigs - Animation quality - Blending - Retargeting - Runtime performance - Ensuring our characters feel alive, attractive, expressive, and emotionally engaging You should be equally comfortable: - Giving creative feedback - Reviewing contractor work - Debugging a pipeline problem in Unreal - Sitting with engineers to design better tools for artists We’re a small team building something new, so this is not a purely managerial role. We need someone senior enough to set standards and direction, but hands-on enough to jump in when the pipeline breaks or the work needs to get shipped. Qualifications - 10+ years of professional experience working in Unreal Engine, ideally with UE5 - Deep technical art experience, with a strong focus on character animation pipelines - Strong understanding of animation systems, character rigs, skeletons, retargeting, blend spaces, animation blueprints, runtime animation, and performance constraints - Proven experience managing external art teams, vendors, contractors, or co-development partners - Ability to translate creative goals into technical requirements and production-ready standards - Strong communication skills with artists, engineers, designers, producers, and non-technical stakeholders - Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where the pipeline may need to be invented rather than inherited - Strong visual taste and the ability to articulate why something does or does not meet the bar - Willingness to be hands-on when needed, not just oversee from a distance Requirements - Experience leading or mentoring a small art, animation, or technical art team - Shipped at 2+ AAA titles or equivalent high-end real-time 3D projects - Experience with level design, lighting, cinematics, shaders, VFX, or environment art - Experience designing tools for artists, creators, or procedural content workflows - Comfortable collaborating on product design, UX, and creator-facing workflows - Experience with AI, ML-driven animation, procedural animation, runtime character generation, or interactive storytelling systems - Familiarity with MetaHumans, Control Rig, Sequencer, Niagara, Unreal animation systems, and runtime asset workflows - Experience building scalable pipelines for UGC, live service games, virtual production, or real-time interactive media Benefits - Competitive salary, stock, and benefits package - The space to work on truly crazy projects that will shape the future of media - The opportunity to closely collaborate with amazing multidisciplinary talent – Hollywood creatives, world-class designers, superstar engineers, and incredible AI researchers - An environment designed to let everyone collaborate and be included no matter what specialty you previously had - Unique professional growth opportunities built directly into our development process

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