BCforward
Environment Artist 3 Job at BCforward in Redmond
BCforward, Redmond, WA, United States, 98052
Content Summary: Environment Artist 3 at Redmond, for BCforward
BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated
Environment Artist 3 Professional
Job
for an opportunity
at Redmond, WA onsite, 5 days a week!
Position Title:
Environment Artist 3
Location:
Redmond, WA onsite, 5 days a week
Anticipated Start Date:
ASAP
Please note this is the target date and it is subject to change. BCforward will send official notice ahead of a confirmed start date. Expected Duration:
Contract of 08 Months and possibility of extension
Job Type:
Contract and Onsite
Pay Range:
$33 - $36/hr. on w2
Please note that actual compensation may vary within this range due to factors such as location, experience, and job responsibilities, and does not encompass additional non-standard compensation (e.g., benefits, paid time off, per diem, etc.). Top Skills:
Years of Experience Required: 5+ years of experience required for the role. Degrees or certifications required: There are no required degrees or officially recognized certifications needed for this role. Minimum 3+ years' experience with Management and/or leadership experience on a game team Minimum 3+ years' experience with Realtime VFX production Recent Unreal Engine experience Disqualifiers: Resumes with Zero lead/management experience and lack of shipped AAA titles will not be eligible for the role.
Job Description:
This role is critical in ensuring that partner studios deliver high-quality, optimized, and stylistically consistent visual effects that align with Halo's iconic aesthetic. Candidate will act as the primary liaison between internal teams and external partners, ensuring smooth collaboration, feedback implementation, and pipeline efficiency. Candidate may engage with a variety of external teams around the world and may require core hours that shift to accommodate external partner availability. This position will rely on your artistic and technical skills and experience in creating high quality game art. You will work alongside other artists responsible for concepting, building, updating, and polishing the game consistent with the vision, direction, calendar, and style to keep Halo content fresh, dynamic, and exciting.
Responsibilities:
Supervise Partner Studio Work:
Provide creative and technical direction to external teams, ensuring their real-time VFX and environment assets align with the project's visual and performance standards. Artistic & Technical Review:
Offer detailed feedback, paint-overs, and guidance to maintain consistency with Halo's established art direction. Pipeline & Documentation:
Develop and maintain best practices, style guides, and technical documentation to support external teams. Integration & Optimization:
Review, test, and refine partner-created assets in Unreal Engine (Niagara) to ensure they function within the game's performance constraints. Collaboration & Communication:
Act as the bridge between internal and external teams, fostering clear communication, problem-solving, and alignment on expectations. Quality Assurance & Final Polish:
Ensure all partner-created assets are fully optimized, bug-free, and seamlessly integrated into the game world.
Minimum Qualifications & Skills:
5+ years of experience as a VFX Artist in AAA game development, with a strong focus on external team oversight. Deep understanding of Unreal Engine's Niagara VFX system and real-time rendering principles. Proven experience overseeing external partner teams, including feedback loops, quality control, and process alignment. Strong grasp of performance optimization, memory budgets, and LODs for real-time VFX across platforms. Excellent communication, organizational, and documentation skills to support external development success.
Nice to Haves:
Experience working on a Halo, sci-fi, or first-person shooter (FPS) title. Familiarity with HLSL, shader development, and Blueprints for VFX. Experience developing and refining external development pipelines and vendor relations.
Business Justification:
The environment art team is struggling to meet the outsource management expectations for the project and needs support to keep up with our partners. Having a dedicated art outsource manager on the CVW team is providing high impact on management overhead and keeping artists to meet our review SLA and expectations.
Benefits:
BCforward offers all eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to major medical, HSA, dental, vision, employer-provided group life, voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401k. About BCforward:
Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward's 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.
BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.
BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.
To learn more about how BCforward collects and uses personal information as part of the recruiting process, view our Privacy Notice and CCPA Addendum. As part of the recruitment process, we may ask for you to disclose and provide us with various categories of personal information, including identifiers, professional information, commercial information, education information, and other related information. BCforward will only use this information to complete the recruitment process.
This posting is not an offer of employment. All applicants applying for positions in the United States must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The submission of intentionally false or fraudulent information in response to this posting may render the applicant ineligible for the position. Any subsequent offer of employment will be considered employment at-will regardless of the anticipated assignment duration.
Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 235822 when responding to this ad.
Environment Artist 3 Professional
Job
for an opportunity
at Redmond, WA onsite, 5 days a week!
Position Title:
Environment Artist 3
Location:
Redmond, WA onsite, 5 days a week
Anticipated Start Date:
ASAP
Please note this is the target date and it is subject to change. BCforward will send official notice ahead of a confirmed start date. Expected Duration:
Contract of 08 Months and possibility of extension
Job Type:
Contract and Onsite
Pay Range:
$33 - $36/hr. on w2
Please note that actual compensation may vary within this range due to factors such as location, experience, and job responsibilities, and does not encompass additional non-standard compensation (e.g., benefits, paid time off, per diem, etc.). Top Skills:
Years of Experience Required: 5+ years of experience required for the role. Degrees or certifications required: There are no required degrees or officially recognized certifications needed for this role. Minimum 3+ years' experience with Management and/or leadership experience on a game team Minimum 3+ years' experience with Realtime VFX production Recent Unreal Engine experience Disqualifiers: Resumes with Zero lead/management experience and lack of shipped AAA titles will not be eligible for the role.
Job Description:
This role is critical in ensuring that partner studios deliver high-quality, optimized, and stylistically consistent visual effects that align with Halo's iconic aesthetic. Candidate will act as the primary liaison between internal teams and external partners, ensuring smooth collaboration, feedback implementation, and pipeline efficiency. Candidate may engage with a variety of external teams around the world and may require core hours that shift to accommodate external partner availability. This position will rely on your artistic and technical skills and experience in creating high quality game art. You will work alongside other artists responsible for concepting, building, updating, and polishing the game consistent with the vision, direction, calendar, and style to keep Halo content fresh, dynamic, and exciting.
Responsibilities:
Supervise Partner Studio Work:
Provide creative and technical direction to external teams, ensuring their real-time VFX and environment assets align with the project's visual and performance standards. Artistic & Technical Review:
Offer detailed feedback, paint-overs, and guidance to maintain consistency with Halo's established art direction. Pipeline & Documentation:
Develop and maintain best practices, style guides, and technical documentation to support external teams. Integration & Optimization:
Review, test, and refine partner-created assets in Unreal Engine (Niagara) to ensure they function within the game's performance constraints. Collaboration & Communication:
Act as the bridge between internal and external teams, fostering clear communication, problem-solving, and alignment on expectations. Quality Assurance & Final Polish:
Ensure all partner-created assets are fully optimized, bug-free, and seamlessly integrated into the game world.
Minimum Qualifications & Skills:
5+ years of experience as a VFX Artist in AAA game development, with a strong focus on external team oversight. Deep understanding of Unreal Engine's Niagara VFX system and real-time rendering principles. Proven experience overseeing external partner teams, including feedback loops, quality control, and process alignment. Strong grasp of performance optimization, memory budgets, and LODs for real-time VFX across platforms. Excellent communication, organizational, and documentation skills to support external development success.
Nice to Haves:
Experience working on a Halo, sci-fi, or first-person shooter (FPS) title. Familiarity with HLSL, shader development, and Blueprints for VFX. Experience developing and refining external development pipelines and vendor relations.
Business Justification:
The environment art team is struggling to meet the outsource management expectations for the project and needs support to keep up with our partners. Having a dedicated art outsource manager on the CVW team is providing high impact on management overhead and keeping artists to meet our review SLA and expectations.
Benefits:
BCforward offers all eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to major medical, HSA, dental, vision, employer-provided group life, voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401k. About BCforward:
Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward's 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.
BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.
BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.
To learn more about how BCforward collects and uses personal information as part of the recruiting process, view our Privacy Notice and CCPA Addendum. As part of the recruitment process, we may ask for you to disclose and provide us with various categories of personal information, including identifiers, professional information, commercial information, education information, and other related information. BCforward will only use this information to complete the recruitment process.
This posting is not an offer of employment. All applicants applying for positions in the United States must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The submission of intentionally false or fraudulent information in response to this posting may render the applicant ineligible for the position. Any subsequent offer of employment will be considered employment at-will regardless of the anticipated assignment duration.
Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 235822 when responding to this ad.