Lead Technical Animator at CDPROJEKTRED

About the Role

We are looking for a Lead Technical Animator to join our studio in Boston and work on Project Orion, the follow-up to Cyberpunk 2077. This role involves bringing years of expertise, leadership skills, and passion for creating animation pipelines and systems for characters, vehicles, and weapons to our growing team.

Key Responsibilities

• →Develop and manage a high-performing Technical Art team comprising Rigging TDs and Technical Animators.
• →Leverage skillsets in digital content creation tools and real-time engines to drive and deliver high-quality character, vehicle, and weapon workflows, pipelines, and animation solutions.
• →Manage direct reports and help them grow in their roles and ambitions, including setting up 1:1s, performance management, hiring, and promotions.
• →Work with Directors and Production to estimate and plan work.
• →Collaborate closely with designers, artists, and other developers to understand their needs and ensure alignment to deliver on expectations.
• →Coordinate and drive cross-discipline functional teams from feature conception to completion.
• →Establish and maintain best practices, offering guidance to support content development team artistic and technical objectives.
• →Mentor the technical art team, building an environment of creativity, trust, and excellence aligned with the company’s values and goals.
• →Prototype, research, integrate, and extend rigging and animation systems.
• →Help devise, develop, and maintain pipelines for asset creation focusing on characters, weapons, and vehicles.
• →Solve complex technical art challenges while ensuring workflows and systems are efficient and scalable.
• →Actively participate in evaluating performance and optimization to ensure seamless cross-team gameplay experiences.
• →Foster cross-department collaboration to ensure the content and animation work effectively contributes across game teams and systems.