As a Technical Artist with Tantalus, your role is to help build and deliver key tools, pipelines and workflows to support art creation, while also contributing to the art on projects in your domain of expertise.

• Create or re-invent art assets in your area of expertise (eg: shaders, lighting, VFX, rigging).
• Confidently communicate with other disciplines, in particular engineering, to facilitate solutions that push the project forward.
• Support art content production by advancing art pipelines, workflows and methodologies.
• Develop tools and processes that facilitate content authoring with an emphasis on user experience, quality and productivity.
• Asset optimisation, integration, performance profiling and validation.
• Collaborate with other Technical Artists to maintain and further improve on project / studio tools and workflows.
• Create and maintain technical documentation.
• Assist with asset creation or re-invention in domains outside your area of expertise if needed.

Expectations

• Proactively identify problems and propose, test and document solutions.
• Research and explore new technologies and techniques and keep up-to-date with the latest trends in game development.
• Share learnings and best practices, workflows and new tools with the wider team.
• Be available for technical support for the art team.
• Actively demonstrate a desire to learn and grow professionally.
• Contribute towards a positive and supportive company culture.
• Experience in art content creation.
• Strong attention to detail, able to multi-task and adapt to change.
• Artistic eye and solid understanding of art or animation pipelines.
• Proficiency in scripting and coding in one or more of the following - Python, C#, C++, HLSL, MEL, MaxScript.
• Knowledge of industry DCC packages – Maya, 3DS Max, Blender, Adobe Suite – with strong foundational knowledge in at least one.
• Current development experience with Unity, UE4 or UE5.
• Skills and interest in one or more areas - Shader development, Character rigging, Pipeline and tool development, Procedural asset generation, VFX / Particles, Lighting, Real-time physics simulations, Real-time rendering and post-effects, Asset optimisation and performance profiling.
• A passion for games, an interest and awareness in the latest trends, tools, technology and approaches in creating content.
• Strong time management and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication skills.

Revolutionise AI Products as a Technical Product Manager

Are you a strategic and technical product leader passionate about building cutting-edge AI solutions that transform industries? Join our team of innovators at Nearmap and drive the future of artificial intelligence.

As a Technical Product Manager, you'll spearhead the development of our revolutionary AI platforms and products. From ideation to launch, you'll collaborate with brilliant minds in machine learning, data science, engineering, and design to deliver intelligent technologies that solve complex challenges.

The scope of your role will include (but not limited to):

Roadmap Delivery Ownership

• Manage and prioritise the product backlog in your area of responsibility, balancing the (often competing) needs and requests of multiple parties: customers, Solution Product Managers, Sales, Engineering, senior management.
• Be the custodian of your platform or project area on behalf of your customers and Nearmap – ensure that solutions are consistent, practical, high-quality and forward-thinking.

Analysis

• Take market-driven product requirements from Solution Managers and others, and add sufficient clarification and detail so that development teams can estimate, plan, design and implement with confidence.
• Work with designers and developers to synthesise diverse and competing vertical requirements into practical solutions that meet both the specific needs of the verticals, and the general needs of a broad customer base.
• Understand your customer in a data-driven manner – analyse available customer data, identify gaps in the data and recommend ways of plugging the gaps.
• Contribute to customer discovery (e.g. interviews) where needed.
• Predict and plan for future customer and infrastructure needs.

Delivery

• Be the Product Owner of your agile development team. Write crystal-clear user stories. Encourage and support iterative and collaborative development, favouring people over process.
• Identify and manage dependencies and risks.
• Help manage and coordinate releases.
• Facilitate reporting of progress against estimated dates, to Product leadership and senior management.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve the way we work, and help make the changes happen.
• Identify necessary improvements to critical software systems and infrastructure to meet the needs of an evolving company and growing customer base.

If you join us on this exciting journey, you’ll love our inclusive values and share our ambition to become the source of truth that helps shape decisions for the liveable world.

Skills & experience we are looking for:

• Five or more years’ experience as a Technical Product Manager, Product Owner, Business Analyst or Systems Analyst working with agile development teams.
• Demonstrated success working with Product and Engineering teams to deliver quality product to market.
• Experience working on highly technical products and in highly technical organisations.
• Digital and SaaS product development.
• Software development, geospatial experience, or other similar technical chops
• Excellent written, visual and verbal presentation skills.
• Strong ability to detect and then resolve ambiguity.
• Good negotiation skills.
• Good influence skills, especially in teams.
• Sound understanding of software development process and a love for technology.