Lead Technical Animator at CD PROJEKT RED – United States

Company Description

To create revolutionary, story-driven RPGs which go straight to the hearts of gamers — this is our mission. Want to dive deeper into our company’s culture? Explore our social media and check out our YouTube channel and Beyond the Game Blog where we share behind-the-scenes insights and stories direct from our team members!

Job Description

CD PROJEKT RED is looking for a Lead Technical Animator to join our studio in Boston and work on Project Orion, the follow-up to Cyberpunk 2077. You will bring your years of expertise, leadership skills, attention to detail, and passion for creating animation pipelines and systems for characters, vehicles, and weapons to our growing team.

Responsibilities

Develop and manage a high performing Technical Art team comprising Rigging TD’s and Technical Animators. Leverage your skillsets in both digital content creation tools and real-time engines to drive and deliver high-quality character, vehicle, and weapon workflows, pipelines, and animation solutions. Manage your direct reports and help them grow in their role and ambitions, including setting up 1:1s, performance management, hiring and promotions. Work with Directors and Production to estimate and plan work. Collaborate closely with designers, artists and other developers to understand their needs and ensure that your team is aligned to deliver on expectations. Coordinate and drive cross-discipline functional teams from feature conception to completion. Establish and maintain best practices offering guidance to support content development team artistic and technical objectives. Mentor the technical art team, building an environment of creativity, trust, and excellence aligned with the company’s values and goals.