Lead Environmental Artist
Xsolla (USA), Inc., operating under the Xsolla brand, is a global video game commerce and payments company serving game developers, publishers, creators, and payment providers.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Xsolla (USA), Inc.
Xsolla provides merchant-of-record and payment-processing services plus direct-to-consumer commerce, web shops, publishing and distribution tools, cloud gaming, fraud prevention, player engagement, creator monetization, and developer tooling for the video game industry. Its solutions operate across 200+ geographies with 1,000+ payment methods and are actively supported through live products, documentation, customer support, and ongoing hiring.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Lead environment creation from concept through final implementation while maintaining visual quality and meeting technical and performance requirements. Create optimized environment assets, define production workflows, resolve performance issues, collaborate across art and technical teams, review artists’ work, and mentor environment artists.
Requirements
- Strong professional experience as a Senior or Lead Environment Artist in game development
- Excellent portfolio demonstrating visually compelling, production-ready environments
- Strong understanding of real-time optimization and visual fidelity versus performance trade-offs
- Advanced knowledge of environment production pipelines, modular workflows, LODs, materials, shaders, texture optimization, and asset budgets
- Strong proficiency with industry-standard 3D tools and experience with Unreal Engine and/or Unity
- Understanding of lighting, composition, scale, color, and environmental storytelling
- Ability to profile environments and resolve technical bottlenecks
- Leadership, mentoring, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
Responsibilities
- Lead the creation of high-quality environments from concept through final implementation
- Establish and maintain the visual quality bar while meeting technical and performance requirements
- Create optimized environment assets including modular kits, architecture, terrain, props, materials, and set dressing
- Collaborate with Technical Artists, Level Designers, Lighting Artists, Engineers, and Art Direction
- Define and maintain environment art pipelines, workflows, and technical standards
- Identify and resolve performance issues involving geometry, materials, textures, lighting, draw calls, memory, LODs, and asset complexity
- Review Environment Artists’ work and support their professional development
- Participate in profiling and optimization throughout production
Benefits
- Unlimited flexible time off
- Personalized career roadmap
- Training and educational opportunities
Hiring Process
Background checks may be conducted where permitted by law after the final interview stage.