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Grow your career while helping shape what's next.\nBuild what's next at IGT.\nShort Description\nAn outstanding opportunity exists to join a global market leader and dominant force in the Australian gaming market.\nIGT is the world leader in the design, development and manufacture of gaming products and systems. IGT Australia provides a range of gaming products, systems and services to the Club, Hotel and Casino industries.\nWe are searching for an exceptional Senior Technical Artist to join our Sydney Game Studio and help a small, highly collaborative team create compelling land-based slot games and player experiences.\nLocation: Macquarie Park, NSW\nResponsibilities\nIn this role, your responsibilities will include:\nPartnering with the Game Designer, Software Engineer and project stakeholders to establish the aesthetic vision, visual language and overall look and feel for each game.\nCreating concept art, style frames, visualisation artwork and rapid prototypes using your own craft and, where appropriate, approved AI-assisted workflows.\nDefining the complete art and animation asset list, including dependencies, priorities, effort, delivery stages and technical risks.\nCreating clear, comprehensive briefs that give third-party art and animation partners the creative direction, technical specifications and acceptance criteria needed to deliver production-ready assets.\nIntegrating, configuring and optimising final art and animation assets within Unity.\nExternal Art Production Management:\nPreparing thorough, production-ready briefs for third-party art and animation partners, supported by visual references, style targets, storyboards, animation lists and clear acceptance criteria.\nSpecifying exactly how assets must be supplied, including resolution, colour and alpha requirements, file formats, layer structures, naming conventions, animation timing, looping, export settings and performance budgets.\nManaging external providers through briefing, milestone reviews and final delivery; providing precise, constructive and actionable feedback until the required creative and technical standard is reached.\nMaintaining consistency across internally created, AI-assisted and outsourced assets while protecting the integrity of the approved art direction.\nCommunicating progress, dependencies, quality concerns and delivery risks to the project team and stakeholders, and helping balance scope, schedule, quality and performance.\nTechnical Art and Unity implementation:\nImporting, configuring and implementing final art and animation assets in Unity, including sprites and atlases, materials, shaders, animation systems, Spine content, UI elements, render ordering and real-time particle effects.\nWorking closely with the Software Engineer to develop robust implementation approaches and resolve visual, pipeline and runtime issues.\nOptimising content for target hardware through careful management of texture memory, compression, draw calls, overdraw, batching, shader complexity, animation cost and asset loading.\nUsing profiling and in-engine testing to identify bottlenecks and ensure that visual quality, stability and responsiveness meet product requirements.\nMaintaining disciplined digital asset management, source-file hygiene and version-control practices throughout development.\nQualifications\nWhat we’re looking for:\nVisual development: Excellent Illustration skills to create convincing concepts and visual targets, supported by responsible use of approved generative-AI tools where suitable.\nProduction leadership: proven ability to scope artwork, write detailed briefs, manage external vendors and assess creative and technical quality.\nUnity: strong hands-on experience implementing and optimising 2D art, animation, shaders and effects in production projects.\nTechnical judgement: a strong understanding of asset pipelines, file preparation, runtime constraints and performance trade-offs for real-time games.\nCollaboration: a proactive, pragmatic and low-ego approach suited to a small multidisciplinary development team.\nExtra bonus points if you have experience with:\nC# scripting, Unity Editor tooling or pipeline automation.\n3D production workflows in tools such as Maya, 3ds Max or Blender.\nSpine 2D.\nUI/UX, typography, logo design, branding or motion-graphics design.\nProfiling and optimisation for fixed-specification or resource-constrained hardware.\nWhat we offer:\nA small, diverse, respectful and fun team environment where you can do your best work.\nA studio that values your expertise and input, with the security and backing of a global market leader.\nCareer and professional development tailored to support your ambition and future success.\nA competitive salary package.\nFlexible work arrangements with a mix of onsite and work-from-home days through the week.\nKeys to Success\nBuilding collaborative relationships\nDecision making\nDrive results\nFoster innovation\nPersonal energy\nSelf-leadership\nWhy join IGT?\nAt IGT, our greatest competitive advantage is our people. We take ownership, work with urgency, act with integrity, stay curious, and create value for our customers and each other. Join us and help shape what's next.\nIGT is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace that reflects the global communities and customers we serve. We strive to create an environment where all employees feel valued, respected, and empowered.\nIGT is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. 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