Social Feature Tech Artist

We are looking for a highly talented technical artist to join our team creating the social platform for all King games reaching hundreds of millions of users.

Your role within our Kingdom

You will take part in creating the social community platform, which is an integral part of every King game and aims on increasing the social interactions in our games and adding more depth to the game experience.

You will work in a highly collaborative cross functional team together with designers, developers, producers and QA, where both your technical skills and creative vision will help shape the next generation of King games.

You will be part of the process from idea to shipment, and add your own unique creativity as an ingredient to our product, and in turn to our games.

You will share the team?s responsibility to deliver a product that supplies great value at every phase of its life cycle in our games.

You will also be part of the wider Technical Art Community at King, a unique environment where we share and support each other to achieve our full potential.

Skills to create thrills
?Knowledge of one major 3D software packages (Maya preferred) and solid knowledge of 2D creation software (Photoshop).
?Good knowledge of game engine workflows and an understanding of graphics rendering
?Scripting ability (e.g. Python) and experience in creating various game content (animations/modelling/etc).
?Proven track record of both artistic and technical creativity with a passion for solving problems and pushing visual quality.
?Value the look and feel of a product and have the ability to put yourself in our players? shoes.
?Take initiatives for change or to solve a problem, you don?t sit around waiting for someone else to solve it.
?Have experience of delivering and supporting live products. In our team we are facing unique challenges as our product reaches millions of users, and we expect you to be ready to share this responsibility.

Tasty Bonus Skills:
?Experience with Unity3D, Corona or Unreal Mobile
?Understanding of GLSL or similar shading language
?Experience of extending 2D software (Photoshop) via scripting
?Experienced in working in an Agile / Scrum environment
?Good Knowledge of typical development languages (C++)
?Good knowledge of mathematics and physics (vector calculus, linear algebra)

Our Kingdom

King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games. We have developed more than 200 fun titles, and our games are played and enjoyed all around the world. King has game studios in Barcelona, Berlin, London, Malmö, Singapore, Seattle, Shanghai and Stockholm along with offices in Bucharest, Malta, San Francisco, Seoul and Tokyo. King is an independent unit of Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), which acquired King in February 2016.

Want to join the team?

Please send us your CV by clicking the ?Apply now? button. All applications must be in English.

The brilliant experience we give our players comes from the diversity and experience of our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes. That?s why we hire all sorts of talent.