Job Title
Senior Creative Artist
Ref #
50487
Date posted
Friday, November 1, 2024
Country
United Kingdom
Location
Woking
Business area
Design
Department
Design
Position level
G - Qualified Senior
Working time
Full Time
Contract type
Permanent
Working pattern
9am - 6pm Monday to Friday
What to Expect

We are recruiting for a Senior Creative Artist to join our fantastic Design team in Woking, As the Senior Creative Artist you will be working within the Design Visualisation Team, you will deliver the pinnacle of photorealistic imagery and cinematic sequences to sell the vision of McLarens future vehicle line up.

You will produce content to enable the Design Team to “sell breath-taking products” and build the future of visualisation at McLaren. This will not only be used by design at the early stages of development but throughout the business.

What You'll Do

  • Delivering world class CGI Imagery and video content
  • Working alongside the Visualiastion manager to plan and deliver all Visualisation requirements
  • Leading the development of Automotive scenes using UE5. Including photorealistic environments, lighting, and vehicle materials
  • Contributing to the high-level roadmap for Design studio and Visualisation Team deliverables
  • Driving the implementation of new technologies to increase value to the Design Delivery
  • Leading cross functional groups to solve design problems
  • Developing and implementing data optimisations from CAS and Studio Engineering teams
  • Developing guidelines and workflows to ensure best practices across Creative Visualisation team
  • Collaborating deliver excellent finished products including, CGI studio photography, vehicle themes and liveries, internal teaser and reveal cinematics
  • Supporting events as a Brand Ambassador as required
What You'll Bring

  • Successful completion of a university-level course with specialisation in Automotive Design, 3D Games art or equivalent.
  • Excellent knowledge of Unreal Engine 5 as primary software
  • Has led 2 end-to-end projects to achieve successful outcomes in CGI Imagery and / or Video content
  • Has worked with key stakeholders to scope project requirements and can deliver on cross functional agreements while pro-actively solving issues throughout the project
  • Previous professional experience in an Automotive Design Studio, Computer Games industry or using realtime rendering in a games engine
  • Experience working with 3D software packages and modelling such as Blender, VRED or Alias
  • Key generalist skills: Material Development, UV Mapping, Texture Painting, Level Building, Variant Manager, Basic UI/UX interface
What We'll Do for You
We offer a wide – ranging benefits package, which includes:

  • Structured career development framework
  • 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days
  • Enhanced company pension scheme
  • Discretionary annual bonus award
  • Private medical insurance and health cash plan
  • Life assurance 4x your basic salary
  • Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
  • Generous parental leave policies including market leading maternity leave
  • Tax efficient nursery scheme benefit
  • A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice
  • Friends and family day
  • Opportunities to experience our fantastic cars

Qualifying criteria applies
Who Are We?

No restraints. No limitations. We don’t simply push boundaries. We completely rethink them. McLaren Automotive exists to create breath-taking performance road cars.

It takes a community to do what we do. A diverse group of people with many areas of expertise, united by their passion to deliver visionary products and set new benchmarks. 

McLaren Automotive commits to equal opportunity for all. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion is at the heart of our impact, it drives our innovation and enables us to truly create something special. Join us on our journey.