Lead Game Artist, Technical Art & AI
Evolution is looking for an exceptional artist to take the visual lead within the Evolution Innovation team. The role involves owning the visual identity of games and raising the quality and pace of art production. The successful candidate will set the visual direction from environments and characters to UI and effects, while working directly with engineers to develop AI-powered tools and asset workflows.
Evolution provides the autonomy to operate like a startup, allowing the Lead Game Artist to influence the development of creative tools and pipelines. The role requires a hands-on approach, creating concepts, illustrations, and finished assets using 2D, 3D, and AI workflows, while ensuring all elements are cohesive and performant within an HTML5 stack.
- Set the visual direction and carry it through the whole game, from environments and characters to UI and effects.
- Develop new IP or adapt established worlds, and guide others with clear creative feedback.
- Make the artwork yourself.
- Create concepts, illustrations and finished assets using 2D, 3D and AI workflows, with the judgment to know where each approach earns its place.
- Bring the game to life through animation, effects and responsive visual feedback.
- Work with developers to make every element feel cohesive and perform well in our HTML5 stack.
- Put ideas into playable builds early. Test with players, learn from feedback and data, and move confidently between quick experiments and polished production work.
- Help build the next generation of our creative tools. Give engineers concrete feedback, test new AI capabilities and improve asset pipelines through practical scripting and workflow changes.
- Share methods that help the whole team produce better work, faster.
- Accomplished hands-on artist. Your drawing, illustration and digital painting show excellent command of composition, colour, lighting and visual hierarchy (required).
- Senior experience taking game visuals from concept to production (required).
- Work confidently in 2D and 3D and can give a whole game a distinctive, coherent identity (required).
- Understand how artwork becomes a playable experience, including animation, visual effects, asset integration and performance (required).
- HTML5 game experience is a strong plus (nice-to-have).
- Use AI with intent and control. You can direct, refine and combine outputs with your own artwork, keeping the style consistent and the quality high (required).
- Comfortable with asset pipelines, tooling and scripting (required).
- Small-team or rapid-prototyping experience is a plus (nice-to-have).
- You can join us in Stockholm, on-site five days a week (required).
- Competitive pension, health and medical insurance
- 30 paid vacation days
- Fitness benefit (Friskvårdsbidrag)
- Professional growth
- Sport activities, parties, team buildings
Evolution AB is a Swedish company and the world's leading developer and supplier of live casino solutions for online gaming operators. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Stockholm, it produces live dealer games - including roulette, blackjack and a range of game shows - streamed from studios across Europe, the Americas and Asia. Through the acquisitions of NetEnt, Red Tiger, Big Time Gaming and others, the group is also a major online slots provider. Listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, Evolution employs more than 20,000 people worldwide.
