Creative Director (Unreal Engine) (10+ years)

About the Role

Creative Director

This role requires visionary leadership, strong artistic sensibilities, and deep technical understanding of real-time production.

Key Responsibilities

Creative Vision & Direction

• Define and maintain the

  overall creative vision

  for the game and digital twin products.
• Set the benchmark for

  high visual quality, realism, and immersive worldbuilding

  .
• Drive the artistic tone, narrative style, visual storytelling, and game feel.
• Ensure a unified creative direction across gameplay, worldbuilding, cinematics, UI/UX, and technical pipelines.

Art Leadership

• Lead and supervise world-building, environment art, character art, lighting, VFX, and cinematic direction.
• Maintain exceptional standards for

  photorealism, visual consistency, and artistic excellence

  .
• Mentor Art Directors, Technical Artists, and other senior creatives.

Unreal Engine & Technical Expertise

• Work hands-on with

  Unreal Engine 5

  to guide art-tech workflows and production.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and technical art to define:
• Rendering pipelines
• Material and shader standards
• Lighting setups
• Performance budgets
• Asset pipelines
• World Partition, HLODs, Nanite, Lumen workflows
• Oversee usage of Sequencer, real-time cinematics, and next-gen tools.

Digital Twin & Simulation Vision

• Provide creative and visual direction for

  real-time digital twins

  , urban simulations, virtual environments, and architectural visualizations.
• Ensure high levels of

  realism, accuracy, and visual integrity

  in data-driven environments.
• Align creative output with technical and simulation requirements.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Guide multidisciplinary teams including Art, Design, Engineering, Narrative, UX, and Production.
• Communicate the creative vision clearly to leadership, stakeholders, and publishers.
• Drive creative reviews, quality gates, milestones, and prototyping.

Quality Ownership

• Own the final

  visual quality bar

  from concept to shipped product.
• Ensure consistency across environments, characters, vehicles, props, UI, VFX, and cinematics.
• Make high-level decisions on art style, tone, color usage, lighting, and storytelling.

Required Skills & Experience

Experience

• 10+ years experience as a Creative Director

  in gaming, real-time simulation, or immersive media.
• Proven track record leading the creative vision of

  AAA-quality games

  or large-scale simulation/digital twin projects.
• Experience managing large, multidisciplinary teams in fast-paced production environments.

Unreal Engine Mastery

• Deep knowledge of

  Unreal Engine 4/5

  production workflows.
• Strong understanding of:
• Lighting & rendering
• Materials & shaders
• Nanite / Lumen
• World Partition & large-world systems
• Performance optimization
• Sequencer & real-time cinematics

Art Background

• Strong foundation in one or more of:
• Environment Art
• ArchViz
• VFX
• Cinematography
• Excellent understanding of

  composition, color theory, real-world lighting, and visual storytelling

  .

Leadership

• Proven ability to guide, inspire, and manage creative teams.
• Strong communication, presentation, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to collaborate with technical teams and translate creative vision into scalable real-time solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in open-world games, sandbox systems, or large-scale real-time environments.
• Knowledge of digital twin workflows, real-world geographic data, procedural generation, or GIS integration.
• Familiarity with photogrammetry, motion capture, and advanced real-time rendering tools.
• Passion for next-gen visuals, worldbuilding, and immersive experiences.

Why Join Us?

• Lead the creative direction of a

  next-generation Unreal Engine project

  combining gaming and digital twin innovation.
• Work with top talent across art, engineering, design, tech art, and simulation.
• Opportunity to shape a cutting-edge product pushing real-time visuals and creative excellence.

Software & Tools Expertise

Game Engine

• Unreal Engine 4 / 5

  (Expert proficiency)
• Sequencer, Lumen, Nanite, World Partition, Materials/Shaders, Niagara, MetaHuman

DCC (Digital Content Creation) Tools

• Autodesk Maya

  or

  3ds Max

• Blender

  (optional but valuable)

• Houdini

  (procedural assets, VFX, environment tools)

Texturing & LookDev

• Substance Painter

• Substance Designer

• Megascans

2D / Design / Pre-Production Tools

• Adobe Photoshop

• Adobe Illustrator

• Adobe After Effects

Real-Time & Production Tools

• Perforce / Git

  (version control)

• Jira

  (pipeline & task management)

• Marvelous Designer

  (clothing simulation)

• SpeedTree

  (vegetation generation)

• RealityCapture

  /

  Metashape

  (photogrammetry)

Digital Twin / GIS (Preferred)

• Cesium for Unreal
• Houdini for procedural city generation
• ArcGIS
• BIM tools (Revit, Navisworks) – helpful for AEC workflows