Lead Technical Artist

Tripledot Studios•Toronto, ON

3h•CA$80,000 - CA$120,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Clipwire Games is looking for a Lead Technical Artist to enhance the visual quality and performance of their live mobile bingo games. This role requires an experienced technical artist who can work independently, make technical decisions, and contribute to the art and development teams. The position involves collaborating with Art Direction, Product, and Front-End Development to design and maintain shaders, UI, tooling, and content pipelines, ensuring high visual quality and mobile performance. This is a hands-on lead role, involving setting technical direction for the art pipeline while also being an active individual contributor.

Requirements

5+ years of technical art experience in games, with shipped mobile titles
Strong proficiency in Unity, particularly the UGUI/Canvas system, prefabs, Animator, and Particle System
Deep expertise in Shader Graph and HLSL, including authoring custom, mobile-friendly UI and sprite shaders
Advanced knowledge of Unity's asset pipeline, including Addressables, importer presets, and AssetPostprocessors
Strong editor scripting skills in C# (custom inspectors, editor windows, validation suites, build hooks)
Deep understanding of mobile rendering fundamentals: draw call batching, SRP batcher, overdraw, texture compression, and memory budgets
Hands-on experience profiling and optimizing with Unity Profiler, Frame Debugger, and memory analysis tools
Clear, structured communication of technical decisions and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Demonstrated ownership over medium to large technical-art initiatives
Ability to balance delivery speed with craft, performance, and long-term maintainability
A portfolio, demo reel, or examples of your tech art work (shaders, tools, VFX, performance optimizations, or other shipped work)

Responsibilities

Own UI implementation in Unity — build and maintain UGUI screens, prefabs, layouts, and animations for live ops events and new features, from art handoff to game-ready implementation
Own asset integration end-to-end: import, configure, and hook up sprites, atlases, Spine animations, and VFX across our live titles
Author and maintain mobile-friendly UI and sprite shaders and UGUI effects
Build the editor tooling and pipeline automation that makes content work fast and safe — importer presets, asset validators, addressables strategy, custom inspectors, and build hooks
Own performance budgets across our live products: frame time, draw calls, memory, and startup time
Set and uphold technical-art standards; review shader and tooling contributions to ensure quality across the team
Act as the escalation point for complex technical-art issues across art and engineering
Partner with the Art Director and Technical Director to shape long-term technical-art strategy
Manage art content in source control day to day, working in Perforce and Git for branching, merging, and integrating assets alongside engineering
Lead the Technical Art team - setting priorities, reviewing work and supporting career development
Mentor artists and technical artists on technical workflows, supporting their growth