Lead Environment Concept Artist

ART

What We Do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

What You’ll Do

Epic Games is searching for an experienced Lead Environment Concept Artist to support and supervise environment concept content created by external partners as part of our collaboration with Disney. Reporting to the project Art Director and working closely with the Outsource Manager and Environment Art Leads, you will help drive the visual quality, consistency, and world-building direction of environment concept art across the project.

This role requires a highly skilled environment concept artist with strong leadership instincts, exceptional communication skills, and experience working within AAA game production pipelines. You will collaborate with both internal and external teams to ensure concept work aligns with the project’s artistic vision, gameplay needs, and production requirements while helping establish a clear quality bar for outsourced environment art.

In this role, you will

• Partner closely with the Art Director, Environment Art Leads, Outsource Managers, and internal art teams to support external environment concept vendors
• Communicate the project’s visual direction and world-building goals to outsource partners while ensuring all submitted work meets Epic and Disney quality standards
• Create and oversee high-quality environment concept designs that support the visual identity and storytelling needs of the project
• Develop mood boards, paint-overs, visual target references, callouts, and production documentation to guide external teams
• Help define environment pipelines, workflows, and quality benchmarks for outsourced concept art production
• Review outsource submissions and provide clear, actionable artistic feedback to ensure consistency in style, tone, composition, and functionality
• Collaborate closely with environment art, level design, lighting, VFX, and gameplay teams to ensure concepts support downstream production requirements
• Identify risks, communication gaps, or quality concerns early and escalate appropriately to leadership when needed
• Lead, mentor, and provide artistic direction for a small team of environment concept artists 

What we’re looking for

• Exceptional portfolio demonstrating strong environment concept art skills, visual storytelling, composition, color theory, lighting, and world-building
• Deep understanding of environmental design principles, including architecture, atmosphere, scale, shape language, and gameplay readability
• Experience working as a Senior or Lead Environment Concept Artist on at least one shipped AAA title
• Strong ability to communicate visual direction and collaborate effectively with both internal developers and external outsourcing partners
• Experience creating production-ready concept packages, including callouts, orthographic designs, paint-overs, and reference sheets
• Understanding of downstream game development workflows and how concept art supports environment art, lighting, level design, and VFX production
• Excellent organizational, communication, and feedback skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced production environment
• Proven ability to maintain high artistic standards while balancing production realities and schedules
• Experience working with stylized and/or highly immersive world-building aesthetics is a strong plus
• Bonus: Fluency in an additional language such as Chinese, Spanish, German, Italian, or Russian

This role is open to multiple locations across the US (including CA, NYC, & WA).

Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).