Senior Technical Art Director - Characters

Senior Technical Art Director - Characters role at Electronic Arts. Responsibilities include managing a small team, developing technical vision, and improving character creation pipelines. The role requires experience with DCC workflows, game engines, and AI-powered tools. The team within Creative Innovation pioneers the use of Character technologies to empower content creators to create compelling games.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a technical art leader with end-to-end design and architecture ownership
• Production experience across DCC workflows (Maya, Houdini, Substance Suite, Blender) and game content creation or pipeline management
• Advanced coding skills, especially in Python, with experience building production-ready tooling for character creation and animation pipelines
• Experience applying Generative AI / Machine Learning techniques to automation, content pipelines, or tooling

Benefits

• Paid vacation (3 weeks per year to start)
• 10 days per year of sick time
• Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child
• Extended health/dental/vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Retirement plan
• Bonus
• Equity