Jarvi Games

We're looking for an independent, creative, and experienced Art Director who understands how to build open world game environments from concept to final integration. This person will become the core of our environment art team and, in the future, will lead a small team of environment artists.
 

We are also actively looking for an experienced Art Lead or Art Director to take charge of creating a large, detailed open world.
 

What you'll be doing:

• Create and oversee the development of large open world areas with diverse biomes, urban spaces, interiors, and landmarks.
• Handle the full creation pipeline—from initial concept and blockout to final, optimized in-game version—including terrain shaping, prop placement, and atmosphere setup.
   

What matters to us:

• Most importantly, you're passionate about open world environment art and always aim to make each location better, while keeping a good balance with development speed.
• You have experience creating complete open world or large-scale game environments.
• You're creative and proactive—we want someone who can generate ideas and execute them based on our vision. In the early stages, we won’t have a concept artist or level designer on the team.
• You’re skilled with tools like Blender / Maya / 3ds Max, Substance Painter, and Unity.
• You understand mobile limitations, optimization, and scene setup.
• You can work independently and make quick decisions without micromanagement.

We’re looking for a Senior Technical Artist who will play a key role in optimizing and improving the technical and visual performance of our mobile open-world project. You’ll work closely with both artists and developers to ensure high-quality visuals run smoothly on a wide range of devices — including low-end phones in tier-3 regions.

What we expect:

• Strong understanding of resource optimization and RAM management in Unity;
• Experience working with URP or other render pipelines;
• Skills in creating and maintaining fast, custom shaders;
• Experience optimizing large-scale open-world environments for mobile platforms;
• Deep understanding of mobile performance limitations and how to overcome them;
• Ability to collaborate with art and development teams to maintain the balance between visual quality and performance;
• Experience with custom rendering solutions and advanced shader techniques;
• Familiarity with GPU/CPU profiling tools and techniques;
• Experience developing tools and workflows that improve team efficiency;
• Interest in pushing the technical boundaries of mobile open-world games.
   

Responsibilities:
 

• Organizing effective communication between the art department, client-side developers, and game designers;
• Defining visual content pipelines and requirements tailored for mobile platforms;
• Working with programmers to refine and configure rendering systems according to project needs;
• Creating custom visual systems and content, including shaders, post-processing, lighting setups, cameras, and scripts to solve visual challenges;
• Developing, implementing, and supporting graphical features such as:
   
  • 3D Lobby;
  • Character and vehicle customization systems;
  • Visual feedback systems for both the 3D city scene and the UI;
  • Mobile-optimized PBR shading;
  • A scalable LOD system for large open worlds with extended draw distance.
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• Creating utilities and tools to support level setup and visual content integration;
• Monitoring and optimizing visual performance (profiling, stress testing);
• Researching and implementing performance improvements for the graphics side of the project;
• Participating in the development of visual prototypes for new features;
• Building tools to automate content production workflows;
• Assisting with importing and setting up complex visual content in Unity;
• Writing and maintaining technical documentation
   

As one of the core project members, you will play a role in driving the development from concept and production through launch and live operations.

Key Responsibilities:

Early Stage:

• Dive into market trends and competitor’s analysis. Use data to define the best practices to craft features according to the product vision;
• Concept an events and features from scratch to determine the core of the product and their main qualities;
• Define the roadmap, and lifecycle management framework to ensure scalable and impactful product delivery;
• Building and mentoring a strong game design and UX team.

Post Soft-Launch:

• Set the future vector of development of the entire product, build a LiveOps system;
• Analyzing metrics and putting forward hypotheses that contribute to improvements;
• Collaborate with marketing and community teams to ensure their efficient operations in accordance with the product goals.

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of the full game development lifecycle;
• Knowledge of mobile gaming market trends and new approaches to development;
• Expertise in LiveOps, and defining short- and long-term product goals;
• Strong understanding of product metrics analysis and ability to build hypotheses;
• Ability to effectively document and present original ideas and concepts;
• UX sensibility would be an advantage.