Team Lead - Modeling (Unreal)

Ubisoft•Montreal, QC

7d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Team Lead - Modeling (Unreal) at Ubisoft Montreal, you will support the modeling team by guiding asset production workflows, maintaining quality standards, and helping artists deliver performant and visually consistent content in Unreal Engine. You’ll collaborate closely with art, level design, production, and external partners to support production goals, optimize workflows, and coach artists across the pipeline.

Requirements

Strong understanding of 3D modeling pipelines and real-time asset production workflows
Experience with real-time production constraints
Knowledge of modeling workflows, including unwraps, LODs, collisions, and optimization practices
Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across art and production
Ability to review assets and provide clear, constructive feedback
Experience supporting or coordinating outsourcing or co-development pipelines
Comfortable organizing and tracking work through Jira

Nice To Haves

Experience with Unreal Engine and Blender are a plus

Responsibilities

Guide the quality of 3D assets across modeling, unwraps, LODs, collisions, and integration workflows
Define and maintain visual guidelines and production documentation for modeling teams
Collaborate with Level Artists and Level Designers to establish efficient asset production workflows
Review and validate asset requests while promoting reuse of existing assets from the object bank
Prepare and support art reviews to ensure assets meet visual and technical expectations
Support outsourcing and co-development teams by sharing workflows, guidelines, and production expectations
Monitor and review the quality of outsourced assets throughout production
Coordinate and manage Jira workflows for internal and external asset tracking
Organize and maintain the object bank and support task distribution across teams
Manage, coach and support junior artists through feedback, onboarding, and day-to-day collaboration