ABOUT VAYNERX

VaynerX (https://vaynerx.com) is the most contemporary family of companies, working together to build and grow brands. Subsidiaries include VaynerMedia, Eva Nosidam Productions, The Sasha Group, Gallery Media Group, Tingley Lane Trading, VaynerSpeakers, and VaynerCommerce.

ABOUT VAYNERMEDIA 

Culture is our key and Empathy is how we build it. VaynerMediaAPAC is strong with a world-class combination of diverse backgrounds collaborating to put forward innovative, creative and strategic solutions to the one advantage that stands the test of time --- PEOPLE. Day in and day out, we propel some of the biggest brands in the world to the intersection of attention and culture. In APAC, we are proudly +300, servicing a diverse client all around the region.

The PITCH

We are looking for a Senior Art Director who has the know-how and skills to work hands-on and who can own and guide the creative process from ideation to execution. Sometimes you’ll be leading a team of creators to make a volume of content that’ll make people laugh and cry. Sometimes you’ll be collaborating in a brainstorm for a big campaign. Sometimes you’ll be on set using your eye to make sure everything in frame looks “just so.” Every task is challenging, but highly rewarding. 

You’ll be joining a tightly-knit creative team working with emerging and established brands across food & beverage, telecommunication services, entertainment, and more. The team is a diverse mix of makers, creators, and ideators from musicians to viral content creators. But we’re all passionate about our mission: How do we level-up our clients to be the next big thing? 

Are you based in Sydney? Geeking the creative world in the Australian market for seven plus years now? Oh well, we could be meant to be --

Here’s where you come in.

• Integrate seamlessly art, copy, and editing techniques, and guide the team across each. 
• You are a creator and an ideator who can execute at both a high speed and volume. 
• Capable of working with large creative groups, and with cross-functional disciplines with the agency.
• Masters crafts and ideas accompanied by delivering high quality, actionable feedback.
• Connecting the dots between culture and content to make concise and relevant creative recommendations. 
• Championing the look and feel of your brands. (Style guides are your bible.) 
• Support CDs, ACDs and win new business pitches.
• Help review and optimize the juniors output while making sure they are being developed as creative problem solvers.
• Assisting in the development and delivery of creative solutions, from content work to larger campaign initiatives for a variety of clients and industries. This includes both executing work on your own as well as managing and approving the work of your assigned creative team.
• Assists in developing company wide creative processes including voice and content workshops, brief sessions, high priority brainstorms, emerging technology and social opportunities, and innovating on campaign work.
• Understanding, articulating, and strategically applying the latest social best-practices to every creative opportunity. 
• Masters industry best practices and be able to articulate the unique VaynerMedia POV 
• Embodies strong creative vision and understanding of client and agency business needs and objectives.

Your Experience

• 7+ years of relevant work experience in the creative media or advertising field in the Australia market.
• Collaborate with our creative and strategy teams, to create and manipulate video, a plethora of photography, social copy, gifs, short clips, streaming stories, etc. 
• Self-starter and demonstrates ability to get things done without direct supervision and understand what it means to deliver excellence to clients.
• Wrangle and roll with your teammates on rapid-fire requests and seriously tight timelines while keeping a chill, proactive attitude.
• Lastly, think logically even under pressure and come up with innovative solutions to problems.

What you should know about VaynerMedia

Think “lab” and not “agency”. We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. It’s fun!

Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to. Hopefully that, and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented and enthusiastic crew, work with big brands excites you, as it does us. We can’t wait to meet you.

P.S Send us your portfolio --- always excited to see some unicorn talents :)

At Riot, we believe in putting players first. Our Sydney-based team is partnering globally to build next-generation features and technology on an exciting Unpublished R&D Title. The team focuses on supporting the game's visual targets and content production needs - helping our artists to realize a vibrant and rich world for players to be immersed and express themselves in.

As a Manager, Technical Artist, Rendering, you’ll help define and deliver the visual bar for our next generation of worlds. You’ll lead and grow a team of talented technical artists, providing hands-on coaching, clear direction, and thoughtful feedback that elevates both craft and collaboration. By partnering closely with Art Leadership, Environment Art, and Lighting, you’ll help shape content creation efforts and translate creative ambition into clear rendering and lighting requirements that achieve our visual targets.

As a Manager, Technical Artist, you’ll own the artist-facing interfaces to the rendering pipeline, ensuring tools and systems are intuitive, well-documented, and built to scale. You’ll work side-by-side with Engineering to evaluate performance implications, balancing stunning visual fidelity with scalability across hardware constraints. From asset pipeline optimization to evolving visual systems as the project matures, you’ll ensure lighting and rendering workflows integrate seamlessly into content creation. As a strategic cross-disciplinary partner, you’ll communicate constraints, risks, and opportunities with clarity — empowering artists with best practices while guiding leadership toward smart, sustainable technical decisions. 

You will report into the Senior Manager, Technical Art and work closely with the Tech Art Director and other members of the team abroad.

Responsibilities:

• Directly manage a team of technical artists, providing support, coaching, and guidance in how they conduct their work.
• Partner with Art Leadership, Environment Art, and Lighting to define rendering and lighting requirements needed to achieve the desired visual target.
• Own and support the artist-facing interfaces to the rendering pipeline, ensuring systems are intuitive, documented, and scalable.
• Work with Engineering to evaluate performance implications of lighting and rendering features, balancing visual quality with scalability and hardware constraints.
• Partner on asset pipeline development and optimization, ensuring lighting and rendering workflows integrate cleanly with content creation.
• Support the evolution of existing visual systems, adapting tools, workflows, and systems as needed.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to artists around lighting and rendering best practices.
• Build strong cross-disciplinary relationships to understand artist needs and communicate constraints, risks, and opportunities to leadership.

Required Qualifications: 

• 6+ years of professional experience as a Technical Artist in games or a related industry.
• Experience with Unreal Engine lighting, rendering, and scripting systems.
• Proficiency with one or more industry standard content creation tools such as Autodesk Maya, 3DS Max, Adobe Suite, ZBrush, Houdini, Substance Suite, or Blender.
• In-depth understanding of real-time rendering principles, lighting models, and optimization strategies for real-time environments.
• Proven experience partnering closely with engineers to support or drive engine-level changes that meet artistic goals.
• Strong understanding of art production pipelines and the ability to translate artistic requirements into usable, production-ready tools or processes.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to act as a bridge between art and engineering.
• Proactive, responsible, and comfortable owning ambiguous or evolving problem spaces.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working on a large-scale, AAA game with a sizable, cross-disciplinary team.
• Familiarity with modern Unreal Engine rendering features such as Lumen, Nanite, PCG, dynamic lighting systems, and weather-driven lighting.
• Experience contributing to or supporting content creation efforts during early or transitional production phases.
• Experience with scalable systems, tools, or pipeline development for large teams.
• Experience working with performance profiling and optimization in collaboration with engineering.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Our Perks:

At Riot we strongly believe in work / life balance, and we encourage that with our open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for both primary and secondary carers) and flexible work schedules to fit your lifestyle. We also believe that work should be fun, we have co-op gaming areas, a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of players and community, and all the snacks you would ever need to power through your day (even healthy snacks!). And that’s not all we offer, there’s also:

• Medical Insurance that covers you and your dependents
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness fund
• Donation matching of time and money to registered charities
• Learning and Development opportunities

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

ABOUT VAYNERX

VaynerX (https://vaynerx.com) is the most contemporary family of companies, working together to build and grow brands. Subsidiaries include VaynerMedia, Eva Nosidam Productions, The Sasha Group, Gallery Media Group, Tingley Lane Trading, VaynerSpeakers, and VaynerCommerce.

ABOUT VAYNERMEDIA 

Culture is our key and Empathy is how we build it. VaynerMediaAPAC is strong with a world-class combination of diverse backgrounds collaborating to put forward innovative, creative and strategic solutions to the one advantage that stands the test of time --- PEOPLE. Day in and day out, we propel some of the biggest brands in the world to the intersection of attention and culture. In APAC, we are proudly +300, servicing a diverse client all around the region.

The PITCH

We’re lucky that everyone within our walls thinks creatively, shares a passion for building communities, and understands the world of both big campaigns and social micro-content.

Our Art Directors here serve a slightly different (and more senior) role than more traditional “digital creative types,” but thankfully we’ll never use the term “digital ninja”.

This full-time opportunity is based in Sydney with a reporting role to the Creative Director AU.

Here’s your first brief --

• Integrate seamlessly art, copy, and editing techniques, and guides the team across each. 
• Inspires ideation and thinking, on-brief and proactively, for current clients and for new prospective clients.
• Capable of working with large creative groups, and with cross-functional disciplines with the agency.
• Masters crafts and ideas accompanied by delivering high quality, actionable feedback.
• Support CDs, ACDs and win new business pitches.
• Help review and optimize the juniors output while making sure they are being developed as creative problem solvers.
• Assisting in the development and delivery of creative solutions, from content work to larger campaign initiatives for a variety of clients and industries. This includes both executing work on your own as well as managing and approving the work of your assigned creative team.
• Provides excellent level concept guidance and approvals.
• Assists in developing company wide creative processes including voice and content workshops, brief sessions, high priority brainstorms, emerging technology and social opportunities, and innovating on campaign work.
• Masters industry best practices and be able to articulate the unique VaynerMedia POV 
• Embodies strong creative vision and understanding of client and agency business needs and objectives.

Your Experience

• 5+ years of relevant work experience in the creative media or advertising field.
• Competencies:
• Execution - ability to prioritise and deliver effectively with autonomy.
• Leadership - ability to maintain self-awareness and self-motivation while creating an impact through sharing, learning, innovation and VaynerX culture sustainability.
• Empathy - ability to show compassion, manage diverse personalities while cultivating a sense of understanding.
• Communication - ability to effectively interact, manage and inspire those around us.
• Strategic Thinking - ability to forecast decision outcomes and conduct sound business judgment.
• Adaptability - ability to change, be curious and naturally resilient to this ever changing world.
• Worked with teams in complex, multi-geography, multi-cultural environments.
• Self-starter and demonstrates ability to get things done without direct supervision and understand what it means to deliver excellence to clients.
• Natural ability to develop and maintain key relationships with internal stakeholders.
• Lastly, think logically even under pressure and come up with innovative solutions to problems.

What you should know about VaynerMedia

Think “lab” and not “agency”. We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. It’s fun!

Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to. Hopefully that, and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented and enthusiastic crew, work with big brands excites you, as it does us. We can’t wait to meet you.

P.S Send us your portfolio --- always excited to see some unicorn talents :)