Technical Artist
Yggdrasil is looking for a passionate Technical Artist to lead and innovate within its Games Portfolio. This role acts as a bridge between artists and developers, requiring a strong understanding of game production concepts such as pixel perfection, optimisation, localisation, and directory structure.
The ideal candidate is a proactive communicator who is comfortable tackling technical challenges and innovation. They will actively seek new solutions to improve workflows and empower the team to achieve high-quality results.
- Collaborate with artists and programmers to ensure efficient asset integration in Unity.
- Prepare assets for games and other Yggdrasil Gaming products, such as marketing materials.
- Handle game layout preparation and updates during production.
- Work with source files from internal and external artists and designers.
- Optimise images and animations, and export final graphics and assets.
- Re-export or recreate graphics for porting projects.
- Partner with the development team to maintain optimal asset pipelines.
- Collaborate with external art studios, providing guidance and technical validation.
- Maintain and organise project folder structures.
- Contribute to internal knowledge bases and best practices.
- Manage and maintain historical game assets.
- Experience working with Unity (required)
- Familiarity with Git (required)
- Strong technical 2D art skills (required)
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Photoshop (required)
- Experience working with Spine (Esoteric Software) (required)
- Experience collaborating with animators (required)
- Experience working with external art studios (required)
- Minimum 2 years of experience in art production (required)
- Strong communication and teamwork skills (required)
- Fluency in English (required)
- Passion for games (required)
- Experience in game design, art, or development (nice-to-have)
- Previous iGaming industry experience (nice-to-have)
- Programming skills (nice-to-have)
- Experience with Unity shaders (nice-to-have)
Yggdrasil is a business-to-business provider of online casino content, best known for its video slots and for the GATI development technology and YG Masters partner programme that let third-party studios distribute games through its network. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Malta, it supplies content to operators across regulated markets, with development studios in Europe including Kraków, Poland.