About this Associate Technical Artist role at Zynga
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Zynga is looking for an Associate Technical Artist to join our team and help create engaging, high quality mobile game experiences. We foster a collaborative, fast paced, and creative development environment where artists, designers, and engineers work together to bring compelling gameplay and visuals to life.
As an Associate Technical Artist, you will work closely with Game Designers, UX Designers, Concept Artists, 3D Artists, Animators, Producers, and Engineers to create beautiful, performant, and scalable game content. You will bridge the gap between art and technology by enabling artists with efficient workflows, integrating high quality assets into Unity, and ensuring content meets both artistic and technical standards.
This role requires someone who enjoys solving technical challenges, building efficient pipelines, create high quality VFX, optimising content for mobile devices, and collaborating across multiple disciplines to deliver polished game content on schedule.
What You'll Do
- Integrate 2D and 3D assets, UI, animations, particle effects and game content into Unity while maintaining visual quality and technical performance.
- Create, configure, and maintain Unity prefabs, animation controllers, materials, VFX, and asset setups following project standards and best practices.
- Implement and polish game UI screens, HUD elements, menus, popups, and interactive experiences within Unity.
- Optimise assets for mobile platforms by improving texture usage, atlas management, draw calls, overdraw, memory consumption, and overall runtime performance.
- Collaborate closely with Artists, Designers, Engineers, Producers, and QA to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve technical and production challenges.
- Develop and maintain editor tools, automation scripts, and pipeline improvements that accelerate production and improve team efficiency.
- Ensure assets follow naming conventions, folder structures, version control practices, and production guidelines.
- Estimate tasks accurately, communicate progress proactively, and deliver high quality work within sprint timelines.
- Support content production by balancing visual quality, technical performance, and development efficiency.
- 1 to 2 years of experience as a Technical Artist or a similar role in Unity game development.
- Strong understanding of Unity, including Prefabs, Animation, UGUI, Materials, Lighting, Rendering, and Particle Systems.
- Experience implementing UI and gameplay content within Unity.
- Strong knowledge of mobile optimisation techniques, including texture compression, atlas management, memory optimisation, batching, and draw call reduction.
- Experience developing tools and workflow automation using C# and/or Python.
- Proficiency with Unity, Autodesk Maya, Adobe Photoshop and Visual Studio.
- Experience using version control systems such as Perforce and Git.
- Familiarity with Unity Profiler, Frame Debugger, and other performance analysis tools.
- Solid understanding of asset pipelines, 3D fundamentals, shaders, materials, and VFX implementation.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across Art, Design, Engineering, Production, and QA teams.
- A proactive mindset with strong problem solving skills and a passion for creating high quality mobile game experiences.
- Experience working on live service or LiveOps mobile games.
- Experience with legacy NGUI systems(good to have).
- Experience creating custom Unity Editor tools(good to have).
- Familiarity with Asset Bundles or Addressables(good to have).
- Experience working on casual, simulation, or free to play mobile games(good to have).
- Portfolio Requirement - Please include a portfolio, GitHub, or demo reel showcasing your Technical Art work. We especially value examples demonstrating Unity implementation, UI integration, mobile optimisation, tooling, pipeline development, or shipped game content.
What We Offer You :
Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits, visit the Zynga Benefits
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization. Employment with us is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not an individual’s race, creed, color, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses, reproductive health decision, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.
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