AVAILABLE POSITIONS Senior Technical Artist

Zynga is looking for a Senior Technical Artist to embark on the next adventure with us! If you're a dedicated, curious, and highly motivated tech artist who loves problem solving with our Directors and Engineers, you will be a phenomenal fit for our diverse and creative team! 

Main Responsibilities 

• Work closely with the Art, Engineering, and Design teams to plan and construct game assets in Unity
• Execute high quality art implementation in Unity
• Enforce optimal performance and efficiency of the game’s final visual assets.
• Work effectively to tackle any art-related bugs.
• Define, maintain and troubleshoot pipeline for in game assets
• Develop and maintain tools for the production pipeline, particularly for animation and technical art tasks
• Create materials/shaders to achieve unique styles and hit amazing visual quality
• Create, maintain, and communicate technical art guidelines and implementation techniques with other team members
• Maintain clean, optimized project, periodically auditing assets and sprite atlases, etc
• Profile builds and provide and implement solutions to address performance issues
• Our ideal candidate is a great communicator, teammate, and proactive problem solver. You draw from a range of skills to creatively determine solutions. You are a contributor of ideas, overseer of pipelines, and collaborator across discipline lines providing expertise and seeking out potential issues before they become problems

Desired Skills and Experience 

• Effective communication with team members of varying disciplines including written documentation of pipeline processes
• Experience working with animation pipelines and assets
• 4+ years of experience with Unity and/or other engines.
• Intermediate skills with 3D modeling, rigging and UV texturing with professional 3D software such as Maya or ZBrush
• Scripting with C#
• Understanding of optimizing 3D and 2D assets for memory and performance considerations
• Experience writing and modifying shaders
• Experience with C# and Python tools
• Core Adobe Creative Suite skills
• Technical background in developing scripts, Photoshop actions, and other automation tools vital for art implementation and optimization
• Proven experience in game development, with shipped titles
• Experience with the Unity Profiler
• Experience with version control software such as Perforce, Git
• Experience with Unity’s UI system (UGUI) is a plus
• Experience creating high quality animations and VFX in Unity is a plus

What we offer you:

• Competitive salary, bonus plan and ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)
• 401K Company Match Contribution (US)
• RRSP/DPSP company match contribution (Canada)
• Health coverage, dental, disability, critical illness, EAP, and life insurance (Canada)
• Medical, dental, vision, EAP, life insurance, and disability benefits (US)
• Virtual mental health and neurodiversity support programs
• Global Fitness reimbursement program
• Global Wellbeing Program
• Financial wellness program with unlimited access to certified financial planners
• Discretionary Time Off policy for many employees
• Family planning support program
• Generous paid parental, pregnancy-related disability, caregiver, and compassionate leaves
• Subsidized Back-up child care
• Zynga happy hours and frequent employee events
• Flexible working hours on many teams
• Culture of diversity and inclusion including employee resource groups
• Work with cool people and impact millions of daily player