Lead Technical Artist at agbo

Type: Full-time
Level: not_specified
Posted: Aug 19, 2026

Description

AGBO, founded in 2017 by Anthony and Joe Russo, is seeking a Lead Technical Artist to join their Interactive team. This role involves setting technical direction, establishing best practices, and working across various disciplines like lighting, character, environment, VFX, and animation. The successful candidate will design and develop custom tools and pipelines, collaborate with engineering and production teams, and own the technical art pipeline end-to-end.

Required Skills

Lighting
Character
Environment Art
Shaders
Custom Tools
Pipelines
Unreal Engine
Rigging

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Proven experience as a Technical Artist with a generalist background spanning lighting, character, and environment art.
Prior lead experience strongly preferred.
Preferred Qualifications: Strong hands-on shader development experience (HLSL/GLSL, node-based shader graphs, or engine-specific shader languages)
Demonstrated experience building custom tools and pipelines to support art workflows
Deep familiarity with Unreal Engine and standard DCC tools (Maya, Blender, Houdini, Substance, ZBrush, etc.).
Solid understanding of rigging, character setup, lighting workflows, and environment/asset optimization for real-time rendering.
Experience leading or mentoring a team of technical artists with strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
A problem-solving mindset with the ability to move fluidly between hands-on production work and high-level pipeline/tooling strategy.
Passion for interactive storytelling and a strong eye for visual quality balanced with technical performance.