Lead Artist (Props) - Interactive Entertainment

About the role

NBCUniversal is looking for a Lead Artist (Props) to own and drive prop production quality and pipelines for an ambitious interactive entertainment project. The role oversees the creation and implementation of props across the project, ensuring consistency, scalability and high visual fidelity across city dressing, interiors, vehicles and user-generated content (UGC). Reporting to the Associate Art Director – World, the position leads and manages a team of prop artists and acts as a bridge between internal teams and external development partners, from high-end to mobile.

Key responsibilities

• Translate artistic direction into high-quality prop assets across city dressing, interiors, vehicles and UGC.
• Drive the development and production of prop assets supporting large-scale world building and environmental storytelling.
• Lead and manage the prop art team, providing mentorship, feedback and direction.
• Define, maintain and evolve prop production pipelines and workflows, focused on scalability and consistency.
• Ensure consistency and quality of all prop assets and their integration into environments.
• Work closely with Environment, Lighting, Tech Art and Production teams so workflows meet artistic goals and technical constraints.
• Align production standards and expectations with external development partners.
• Optimize asset pipelines for efficiency and scalability from high-end to mobile, and support production planning and milestone readiness.
• Maintain visibility on quality, risks and production challenges.

Required profile

• Strong experience in AAA game development, focused on prop or environment asset production.
• Proven experience leading and managing a team of artists on at least one shipped AAA title.
• Solid portfolio showing high-quality prop creation across multiple categories.
• Experience on large-scale environments or open-world projects.
• Strong collaboration across art, technical and production teams, with excellent leadership, communication and organizational skills.

Required skills

• Understanding of production pipelines, asset scalability and real-time constraints.
• Desired: experience building scalable prop systems and modular asset libraries.
• Desired: experience with Unreal Engine pipelines and with outsourcing or external partners.