[Remote] Principal Visual Artist

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. They are seeking a Principal Visual Artist to lead the visual identity and art direction of their interactive work, collaborating with the Creative Director to define project aesthetics and mentor a growing team of artists.

Responsibilities

• Lead the visual direction of features and projects, translating creative vision into clear production direction through concepts, style frames, and visual references
• Define and maintain the visual language, tone, and quality standard across all output as the team and portfolio grow
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of artists, providing feedback, direction, and career development support
• Produce concept, illustration, and 2D art assets (textures, surface detail, iconography, UI elements, graphic work) that integrate into 3D and interactive environments
• Model, UV, texture, rig, and animate 3D assets to production standard, working within defined real-time budgets
• Use motion and animation tools to produce motion references and effects concepts that guide technical implementation
• Collaborate closely with the wider creative team to ensure clean, well-structured handoff for runtime, iterating based on how art behaves in-engine
• Shape art production workflows, asset pipelines, and standards as the team scales

Skills

• A portfolio that spans disciplines: concept and illustration, texture and surface work, 3D modelling, and asset production, showing both range and depth
• Proven experience leading visual direction on features or projects, with the judgment to make art decisions that serve the overall experience
• Experience leading, mentoring, or growing artists on a team
• Strong visual development skills: style frames, mood boards, colour theory, and composition thinking
• Proficiency in Blender (or equivalent) for 3D modelling, UV layout, texturing, rigging, and animation
• Strong 2D skills in Photoshop, Illustrator, or equivalent, with a focus on texture creation, graphic design, and illustrative work
• Understanding of real-time asset constraints: poly budgets, texture resolution and atlasing, material complexity, and what makes assets performant at runtime
• A collaborative approach: you hand off cleanly, communicate constraints clearly, and take technical feedback without friction
• Background in game development (highly preferred) or experience producing assets for a real-time engine
• Experience with motion design, animated asset production, or creating animation references to guide a technical team
• Familiarity with glTF pipelines and well-structured, runtime-ready exports
• Experience with shader authoring or authoring tools

Benefits

• Short-term or long-term incentive compensation
• For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

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