Senior Technical Artist

Studio Overview

We are Sports Interactive. The studio behind: Football Manager.

Founded in 1994, Sports Interactive became a wholly owned subsidiary of SEGA Europe in 2006. Based at the Here East technology hub in Stratford, East London, the SI team continues to expand as we bring our titles to an ever-growing audience across an increasing variety of platforms.

To support our growth, we welcome the opportunity to connect with passionate people with the drive to match our ambitions and initiative to realise your individual potential.

Position Details

Job Title: Senior Technical Artist
Team: Art & Animation
Reporting into: Lead Artist
Working Model: Hybrid 2-3 days per week in studio
Location: Here East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, E15 2GW

Position Overview

We are looking for a Senior Technical Artist to join the Art & Animation team at Sports Interactive. This role focuses on driving technical excellence across the Art & Animation department by improving workflows, developing scalable solutions, and supporting the creation of high-quality visuals and content pipelines. We are looking for someone with broad Technical Art experience who enjoys solving complex problems, collaborating across disciplines, and helping teams work more efficiently while maintaining a high visual standard. The ideal candidate will act as a bridge between Art and Engineering, helping shape workflows, improve pipelines, mentor others, and drive technical improvements that have impact across the wider project.

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

• Driving improvements across content pipelines, workflows, tools, and technical processes.
• Developing and maintaining scalable technical solutions that improve efficiency and quality.
• Supporting shader development, rendering workflows, procedural systems, and runtime implementation.
• Identifying performance bottlenecks and proposing practical optimization solutions.
• Collaborating with Graphics and Engineering teams to align artistic goals with technical constraints.
• Supporting the development of tools, automation, and pipeline improvements across A&A.
• Providing technical guidance and mentorship to Technical Artists and adjacent disciplines.
• Supporting sprint planning, retrospectives, and cross-disciplinary delivery discussions.
• Helping define and maintain Technical Art standards and best practices.
• Clearly communicating technical concepts and workflows to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

• Strong Technical Art fundamentals and experience operating across multiple technical areas while helping drive quality, scalability, and collaboration across the team.
• Advanced experience in more than one Technical Art area such as shaders, rendering, procedural workflows, scripting, optimization, VFX, rigging, animation, tools, or content pipelines.
• Unity Experience.
• Enjoys solving technical problems and improving production workflows at both team and project scale.
• Understands how to balance visual quality, technical limitations, usability, and runtime performance.
• Experience building maintainable and scalable workflows rather than one-off solutions.
• Communicates clearly with both technical and non-technical disciplines.
• Collaborates effectively across Art, Animation, Graphics, Engineering, and Production teams.
• Is organized, self-driven, and capable of managing complex technical initiatives independently.

Desirable

• Can identify opportunities for improvement and proactively drive change.
• Is comfortable mentoring others and helping raise technical standards across the team.
• Contributes positively to team culture through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and constructive feedback.
• Is motivated to continuously learn, improve, and help shape the future direction of Technical Art within the project.

Benefits of Working at Sports Interactive

• Private Healthcare and Dental Plans.
• A range of Gym Membership options through our Benefits partners.
• Travel Insurance for yourself and your family.
• Subsidised mental health, therapy, and coaching sessions are available.
• Access to our on-site physical and massage therapist services.
• Free access to games released under the SEGA Europe umbrella.
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 7% of annual salary).
• Regular events in collaboration with our partner.