Key skills
CloudNode.jsAIClaudeGeminiCRMLeadershipPhotoshopIllustratorCommunicationRemote Work
About this role
Role Overview
- Produce in-game and marketing assets end-to-end, from concept through final delivery, using AI-assisted workflows
- Build and maintain image and video generation pipelines in ComfyUI and other tools
- Combine AI outputs with Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects to reach production quality
- Create and animate assets using After Effects, drawing on a solid understanding of animation principles, cinematography, and visual composition
- Maintain visual consistency with the established Empire art style across asset types (characters, buildings, environments, props)
- Support marketing and communication visuals alongside in-game content
- Test, evaluate, and integrate new AI tools and models as they emerge (we expect this to be a meaningful part of the job)
- Collaborate closely with the rest of the art team, as well as Product, CRM, Game Design, and Developers
Requirements
- Game Art Background
- Professional experience in game development (mobile games / F2P / live service titles a plus)
- Portfolio that includes real shipped in-game assets
- characters, buildings, environments, props, animations
- from actual projects
- Solid hands-on experience with AI-driven visual production as part of a real production workflow
- Advanced ComfyUI skills: building, debugging, and optimising complex workflows; custom node setup; dependency management and troubleshooting
- Strong working knowledge of Midjourney, ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini for image direction and iteration
- LoRA training and workflow automation
- Character consistency workflows (LoRA, reference-based / ControlNet-style setups)
- Image-to-image and image-to-video pipelines
- Upscaling and post-production workflows
- Production-level Illustrator and Photoshop skills
- these are at the core of our workflow
- Solid After Effects skills, including animation
- backgrounds and in-game animations
- Strong sense of cinematography and visual composition — understanding of how animation and film work, timing, camera, and storytelling through motion
- Comfortable running AI workloads on cloud GPUs (e.g. RunPod or similar)
- Pragmatic problem-solver
- you iterate quickly and don't wait for perfect conditions
- Hands-on, adaptable, and genuinely curious about where AI is going
- Strong visual judgement
- you know when something looks right for the style and when it doesn't
- Clear communicator across creative and technical topics
- Organised and team-oriented
- we don't work in silos. Everyone on the team maintains a global overview of what's in progress, takes ownership of features end-to-end, and helps coordinate the team's work.
- Nice-to-Have Experience with ElevenLabs or other AI audio/voice tools
- Familiarity with 3D or multi-view → 3D pipelines (e.g. Blender, Maya)
- Experience producing social media or performance marketing content.
Tech Stack
- Cloud
- Node.js
Benefits
- remote work within Germany
- 30 days of vacation
- Flat hierarchies and direct access to senior leadership from day one
- A stable, profitable product with real scope for long-term impact