About this role
Rovio is a Finnish, games-first entertainment company that creates, develops and publishes mobile games and acts as a brand licensor in various entertainment and consumer product categories. The Company is best known for the global Angry Birds brand, which started from a popular mobile game in 2009. Today, the Company offers multiple mobile games, that has been downloaded 4B times since 2009, has produced The Angry Birds Movie, which opened number one in theaters in 50 countries, and licenses the Angry Birds brand to consumer products and other entertainment content. Rovio’s operations are divided into two business units, Games and Brand Licensing. The role is very broad so you should be ready to tackle many different kinds of tasks, ranging from Shaders, Pipelines, Tools and more. The Rovio Stockholm Studio is behind the hugely popular title Angry Birds 2 and while soaring on that success we are also developing several new IPs and exploring new game ideas within the RPG genre, as well as improving and expanding Angry Birds 2 even further. In the studio, situated in the south part of the city centre, we keep a flat hierarchy, a high level of transparency and an open communication. We challenge each other and ourselves in all we do here but keep the atmosphere friendly, inclusive, respectful and super supportive. You will need a proven portfolio demonstrating your skills, and a track record of projects you have worked on as a technical artist. At Rovio you will be an active project team member with responsibility for helping our talented team deliver their art on time and in excellent quality. You will be working closely with the other artists, designers and programmers to create unforgettable experiences for our fans. What you’ll take under your wings: - Help define asset creation pipelines, guidelines and workflows to turn a vision in to a reality - Assist the project art lead in making decisions about the art style of the game - Push the visual quality of the game - Be the go to person for a broad range of topics, such as shaders, scripts, tools and asset workflows - Solution oriented and be able to quickly understand and effectively communicate the most efficient possible direction for any given technical art problem - You will assist both artists and engineers implementing game assets within Unity - Be part of the technical artist team and help mentor, coach and knowledge share