About the organization:

Ubisoft is a leading developer and publisher of video games worldwide whose brand portfolio covers blockbusters such as Assassin’s Creed, Watch Dogs, The Division, Prince of Persia and Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, Rayman, Just Dance as well as games for the whole family, from Imagine and Petz to Raving Rabbids. To continue building on its achievements for the future, Ubisoft is looking for new talent for its growing Indian studio in Pune!

We favor diversity, creativity, drive and team spirit. If you have the skills and the desire to succeed, we want you to be a part of this exciting period of growth

To continue building on its achievements for the future, Ubisoft is looking for talented candidates for its growing Indian studio in Pune!

Job Title: Lead VFX Artist

**Note**: Final Designation/Level will be decided based on the relevant experience and interview ratings.

Position Objectives:

Take charge of VFX production and VFX visual direction, develop VFX team within a collaborative multi-discipline environment; working with Production and visual development teams, define and track the schedule for the team, manage and mentor team members, and be a key-player in delivering.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Creating stunning visuals effects for the FPS genre using proprietary engine and real time particle systems.
Develop strong VFX visual guideline for team in collaboration with Art director.
Identify and set up best practices, workflows, and pipelines for the VFX team.
Be the main contact for a collaborating studio or outsource partner regarding the VFX development.
Work collaboratively with other directors and Team Leads to create FX which match the quality bar and vision for the game.
Ability to communicate prototypes and idea through presentation and documents.
Help influence further development of internal technologies and artistic capabilities to reach the visual benchmarks.
Serve as an active participant in team art discussions, critiques, and reviews.
Create optimized visual effects for real time rendering within a PBR environment.
Ensure that VFX assets are built efficiently and perform within budgets.
Optimizing work and maintaining balance between quality and performance in-game.
Create certain light and camera/lens effects.
Strong eye for lighting details, and the capability to use them in crafting top notch visual effects that support gameplay and cinematography
Share artistic knowledge with Artists, support them when needed.
Good organizational and analytical skills, and able to solve problems.
Managing VFX team and sharing valuable feedbacks with them on a regular basis for the work/task that they are doing.

Qualifications & Eligibility criteria:

Strong technical knowledge and artistic abilities working with sprite type particles and materials within a game engine.
Proven industry experience of creating VFX for AAA game.
Strong sense of form, color, and composition.
Natural tendency to take on a problem and to work with others until the problem is resolved.
Experience with creating consistently brilliant, eye-catching real-time FX using Photoshop, 3dsMax, Maya, Houdini and in-game FX systems.
Extensive experience with VFX editors and real-time particle systems
Knowledge of game editors (e.g., Unreal, Unity etc.)
Knowledge of composition software (e.g., After Effects, Nuke, Fusion etc.)
Experience working on published AAA games a strong advantage.

DESIRED SKILLS:

Understanding of CGFX and/or HLSL shader languages.
Texturing, modeling, skinning, animation, or lighting experience is a plus.
Substance Painter & Designer experience.
Knowledge of MEL/Python/VEX.

UBISOFT OFFERS:

International game projects & IP’s.
Access to cutting-edge hardware.
Experience using hottest internally developed game engines.
Proficient and fun-to-work-with colleagues.

Note: Applications without portfolio, will not be considered for this position.