Lead Lighting Artist / Chef.fe d’équipe Éclairage

NBCUniversal • Montreal, QC

23h • Hybrid

About The Position

NBCUniversal is seeking a Lead Lighting Artist to own and drive the execution of lighting direction for an ambitious interactive project set in a contemporary real-life urban environment. This role is responsible for delivering high-quality lighting that supports mood, realism, readability, and storytelling across a wide range of environments and gameplay contexts.

Reporting to the Associate Art Director – Lighting & VFX, the Lead Lighting Artist will work closely with Technical Art and cross-disciplinary teams to ensure lighting is consistently implemented across production. The role involves leading and managing a team of lighting artists while ensuring that lighting solutions meet both artistic vision and performance constraints across scalable pipelines from high-end to mobile.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in AAA game development with a focus on lighting contributing to at least one shipped AAA title.
• Proven experience leading and managing a team of lighting artists.
• Strong expertise in lighting for day/night cycles, atmosphere, and real-time visual storytelling.
• Solid understanding of real-time rendering pipelines and lighting systems.
• Experience working on large-scale environments or open-world productions.
• Strong collaboration experience across design, technical, and art teams.
• Positive leadership, communication, and feedback skills.
• Must be willing to work in our Montreal office a minimum of 4 days a week.
• Must be legally authorized to work in Canada.
• Must be willing to travel for work related business, if necessary

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with Unreal Engine 5 (Lumen or similar systems).
• Strong technical understanding of scalable systems and multi-platform constraints from high end to mobile.
• Experience with Unreal Engine 5 (Lumen, Megalight or similar systems).
• Positive experience working with outsourcing partners or distributed teams.
• Strong artistic sensitivity to mood, atmosphere, and cinematic lighting.
• Ability to balance visual quality with performance requirements.
• Excellent communication and natural practice of positive communication and leadership skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Desire to think and explore innovative solutions.

Responsibilities

• Translate artistic direction into lighting setups that support mood, atmosphere, realism, and visual storytelling.
• Own the execution of level lighting across environments, gameplay, and cinematic contexts.
• Lead and manage the lighting team, providing mentorship, feedback, and direction.
• Ensure consistency and quality of lighting across large-scale worlds and varied content.
• Collaborate closely with World, Character, VFX, Design, and Tech Art teams for proper integration.
• Ensure lighting setups meet both artistic and technical requirements, including performance constraints.
• Optimize lighting across environments for scalability from high-end to mobile platforms.
• Support production planning, milestone readiness, and workflow efficiency.
• Review and validate lighting implementation to ensure alignment with visual direction and technical standards.
• Maintain visibility on quality, risks, and production challenges across lighting content.

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
• Right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed