Senior Environment Artist

General Information

Locations: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Location: Vancouver

• State: British Columbia

• Country: Canada

• Location: Redwood City

• State: California

• Country: United States of America

Role ID

216093

Worker Type

Regular Employee

Studio/Department

Other

Work Model

Hybrid

Description & Requirements

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

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At EA, we believe games are powerful because they bring together multiple ways people engage: play, watch, create, and connect. And increasingly, the biggest entertainment platforms aren't just places to consume content — they're places where communities build.

Creator-made content is already a proven part of EA's history — from community creation tools in Battlefield to The Gallery in The Sims 4. We believe new creative technologies and tools will expand how players engage with and contribute to our experiences, supported by thoughtful product design, safety systems, and global reach. Our focus is on enabling more players to participate in creative expression by making creation easier, safer, and more rewarding.

As a Senior Environment Artist you will partner with the Senior Art Director and play a foundational role in establishing the visual language, world identity, and material style for new game projects from the ground up. You will create high-quality, real-time assets, modular kits, and full environments for playable demos, prototypes, and vertical slices. You possess a deep understanding of world-building, composition, and game engine implementation, combined with the craft leadership to set production standards. This role will offer opportunities to provide mentorship, lead reviews, and help guide the overall direction of the environment art discipline.

This is a hybrid role, onsite three days a week in Redwood City, California, Montreal or Vancouver Canada.

As the Senior Environment Artist you will report to the Senior Art Director.

Responsibilities:

• Create high-quality real-time environments, architecture, props, and modular kits for playable demos, prototypes, and vertical slices.
• Establish the environment art quality bar and production standards, while providing mentorship, feedback, and craft direction.
• Partner closely with Art Direction to define the project's visual language, materials, scale, color, composition, and overall world identity.
• Design modular environment content that can be reused, adapted, and expanded as the project and gameplay evolves.
• Collaborate with Technical Art and Engineering on procedural, scalable, and efficient environment workflows for real-time production.
• Ensure playable spaces support composition, texturing, lighting, readability, navigation, and gameplay clarity while staying cohesive with the established visual direction.
• Lead environment reviews across internal and external production, helping maintain quality, guide priorities, and support future team growth.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated expertise in AAA game development with 8+ years of professional environment art experience and shipped console or PC titles.
• Strong portfolio showing high-quality real-time environments, architecture, props, modular world-building, and visual storytelling.
• Experience mentoring artists, leading art reviews, and providing craft direction is required; experience leading or managing small internal or external art teams is preferred.
• Deep understanding of modeling, UVs, texturing, materials, optimization, modular construction, and real-time environment production.
• Strong artistic sensibility across composition, scale, color, lighting, shape language, materials, and gameplay readability.
• Strong experience with modern environment pipelines and tools such as Maya, Blender, Substance 3D, Houdini, ZBrush, Unreal, Unity, Frostbite, or comparable tools and engines.
• Experience adapting environment art across different game genres, visual styles, gameplay needs, procedural workflows, UGC systems, or AI-assisted content pipelines is a plus.

We are a diverse, goal-driven team that offers real influence and autonomy to every member. Our ideal candidate is curious, open-minded, and thrilled by exploring fresh concepts and tailoring them for game development. If you are a passionate, creative, and communicative individual who is deeply invested in innovating across new domains of gaming, we want you on our team.

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Pay Transparency - North America

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).

PAY RANGES

* British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) *$114,300 - $156,200 CAD

* California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. San Francisco) *$127,700 - $190,600 USD

Pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA.

In the US, we offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.

For Canada, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.

About Electronic Arts

We’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.

We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

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