Principal VFX Artist

Location: This role requires relocation from Russia and Belarus to one of our offices or remote work from other countries (except Russia and Belarus).

Playrix is ​​one of the most successful mobile game development companies in the world.

Overview

Our flagship project Gardenscapes is entering a new era of visual quality. We're looking for a talented and experienced Principal VFX Artist to help us achieve our ambitious goals and maintain our leadership in the casual game genre. You'll have the opportunity to participate in creating new features, directly influence the product, develop approaches and pipelines, and exchange experience with leading industry experts.

What you will do

• Develop complex UI effects for features and redesign legacy UI effects.
• Integrate effects into the game and optimize/create new universal effects for the design system.
• Create documentation for key effects and distribute solutions across teams.
• Form a vision for effects in the UI layer of the project and collaborate with the project producer.

Requirements

• A portfolio in a casual style and 4+ years of experience as an effects artist or animator, preferably in mobile projects.
• An understanding of the full cycle of VFX development for UI (strong preference for experience in the match-3 genre).
• Artistic taste and strong hard skills in creating effects without long searches and iterations.
• A deep understanding of the technical side of game effects (atlases, batching, effects mechanics).
• Product thinking and full immersion in the top products in the market.
• Fluent in Russian

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible schedule, and employees can work from anywhere in the world (except for the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus).
• Voluntary health insurance for employees and their children, and reimburse online sessions with a psychologist.
• Fully paid vacation days and sick leave, and support for a healthy lifestyle with reimbursed gym memberships and fitness app subscriptions.
• Opportunities for professional development through conferences, courses, and internal events.
• Merch store with an internal currency for unique gifts.