Team Lead - Modeling

Position:
Team Lead - Modeling (Unreal)

Company:
Ubisoft

Location:
Canada, Montreal

Employment type:
Office-based

Short Summary:
As a Team Lead - Modeling (Unreal) at Ubisoft Montreal, you will support the modeling team by guiding asset production workflows, maintaining quality standards, and helping artists deliver performant and visually consistent content in Unreal Engine.

Responsibilities:
- Guide the quality of 3D assets across modeling, unwraps, LODs, collisions, and integration workflows
- Define and maintain visual guidelines and production documentation for modeling teams
- Collaborate with Level Artists and Level Designers to establish efficient asset production workflows
- Review and validate asset requests while promoting reuse of existing assets from the object bank
- Prepare and support art reviews to ensure assets meet visual and technical expectations
- Support outsourcing and co-development teams by sharing workflows, guidelines, and production expectations
- Monitor and review the quality of outsourced assets throughout production
- Coordinate and manage Jira workflows for internal and external asset tracking
- Organize and maintain the object bank and support task distribution across teams
- Manage, coach and support junior artists through feedback, onboarding, and day-to-day collaboration

Requirement:
- Strong understanding of 3D modeling pipelines and real-time asset production workflows
- Experience with real-time production constraints
- Experience with Unreal Engine and Blender are a plus
- Knowledge of modeling workflows, including unwraps, LODs, collisions, and optimization practices
- Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across art and production
- Ability to review assets and provide clear, constructive feedback
- Experience supporting or coordinating outsourcing or co-development pipelines
- Comfortable organizing and tracking work through Jira