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.

Position 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. The role focuses on driving technical excellence across the department by improving workflows, developing scalable solutions, and supporting the creation of high‑quality visuals and content pipelines. The ideal candidate will act as a bridge between Art and Engineering, shaping workflows, improving pipelines, mentoring teammates, and delivering technical improvements that have lasting impact across the project.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and solve complex technical challenges across the Art & Animation team.
• Improve production workflows, graphical quality, and overall development efficiency.
• Work closely with Artists, Animators, Graphics Programmers, Engineers, Technical Directors, and Production to optimise pipelines and support cross‑disciplinary delivery.
• Drive improvements across content pipelines, workflows, tools, and technical processes.
• Develop and maintain scalable technical solutions that improve efficiency and quality.
• Support shader development, rendering workflows, procedural systems, and runtime implementation.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and propose optimisation solutions.
• Collaborate with Graphics and Engineering teams to align artistic goals with technical constraints.
• Support the development of tools, automation, and pipeline improvements across Art & Animation.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to Technical Artists and adjacent disciplines.
• Support sprint planning, retrospectives, and cross‑discipline delivery discussions.
• Help define and maintain Technical Art standards and best practices.
• Clearly communicate technical concepts and workflows to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Strong Technical Art fundamentals with experience across multiple technical areas.
• Advanced experience in at least two Technical Art areas such as shaders, rendering, procedural workflows, scripting, optimisation, VFX, rigging, animation, tools, or content pipelines.
• Unity experience.
• Ability to solve technical problems and improve production workflows at both team and project scale.
• Understanding of balancing visual quality, technical limitations, usability, and runtime performance.
• Experience building maintainable and scalable workflows rather than one‑off solutions.
• Clear communication with both technical and non‑technical disciplines.
• Effective collaboration across Art, Animation, Graphics, Engineering, and Production teams.
• Organised, self‑driven, and capable of managing complex technical initiatives independently.

Desirable

• Proactive identification of improvement opportunities and driving change.
• Comfortable mentoring others and raising technical standards across the team.
• Positive contribution to team culture through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and constructive feedback.
• Motivation to continuously learn, improve, and shape the future direction of Technical Art within the project.

Benefits of Working at Sports Interactive

• Private healthcare and dental plans.
• Gym membership options through our benefits partners.
• Travel insurance for yourself and your family.
• Subsidised mental health, therapy, and coaching sessions.
• 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 partnered football clubs.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from any relevant candidate irrespective of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion, or belief. SI is proudly a Disability Confident Committed employer, and we are dedicated to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible. Our studio has disabled access and facilities – please advise us if you require any other reasonable adjustments to be made to support you during the recruitment process.