The posting
Company Description
VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.
Job Description
The Opportunity
Versant is looking for a Real-Time Graphics Artist to join our Creative Operations team, helping build and advance the real-time graphics workflows that power live sports and entertainment experiences.
This is a hands-on, highly collaborative role combining the creative capabilities of a 3D generalist with the technical expertise of a Vizrt and Unreal Engine artist. You’ll create high-fidelity visual assets, implement them within real-time environments, and collaborate with artists, designers, engineers, and production partners to bring ambitious creative concepts to life.
You’ll work across Viz Engine, Unreal Engine, and supporting production tools to develop immersive environments and data-driven graphics while balancing visual quality with the performance and reliability required for live production.
Why This Role Matters: Real-time technology is changing how audiences experience sports and entertainment. Your work will help expand Versant’s creative capabilities, improve the workflows behind our productions, and create compelling new ways to visualize stories and complex data across platforms.
This is a fully remote position. While the role is designed for remote work, employees should expect opportunities for in-person collaboration, team gatherings, production needs, or other business activities approximately 10% of the time.
What You'll Do
- Build real-time experiences: Create, implement, rig, and optimize real-time scenes and graphics using Vizrt Artist, Viz Engine, and Unreal Engine while following established technical architecture and production standards.
- Deliver high visual fidelity: Develop immersive environments, high-quality 3D assets, PBR materials, and dynamic lighting solutions that balance creative ambition with the performance requirements of live production.
- Develop interactive systems: Build real-time logic, procedural systems, and graphics triggers using Vizrt scripting and Unreal Engine Blueprints to support live data integration and interactive experiences.
- Optimize for live production: Profile and troubleshoot complex scenes to maintain reliable performance, including consistent frame rates of 60fps+ where required for live broadcast and large-scale display environments.
- Advance creative workflows: Build and improve pipelines connecting DCC tools such as Maya, Cinema 4D, and Blender with real-time engines, helping artists move efficiently from concept through production.
- Explore what’s next: Evaluate emerging real-time capabilities and technologies—including Lumen, Nanite, and PCG—and identify practical opportunities to strengthen Versant’s sports and entertainment productions.
Qualifications
What You Bring
- 4+ years of experience in 3D and real-time production, including at least 2 years working within sports and entertainment environments.
- Hands-on experience building real-time graphics and environments using Vizrt and Unreal Engine.
- Working knowledge of Vizrt scripting and templating technologies, including VBScript, HTML5, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
- Experience with 3D and design tools such as Maya, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Blender, Photoshop, After Effects, Substance Painter/Designer, or comparable tools.
- Strong understanding of real-time rendering pipelines, GPU optimization, PBR workflows, lighting, and performance profiling.
- A portfolio demonstrating strong real-time design capabilities, including interactive or self-service graphics and highly realistic compositions.
- The ability to diagnose and resolve technical and creative challenges within the time-sensitive environment of live production.
- Flexibility to work extended or non-business hours when production needs require.
You’ll also bring Versant’s How We Do It behaviors to your work: Trust in how you collaborate and deliver; Teamwork across creative, technical, and production partners; Transparency when communicating opportunities, risks, and constraints; Agility when priorities or live-production requirements change; and Entrepreneurial Spirit in experimenting with new technologies and finding better ways to create and deliver real-time experiences.
Bonus points for:
- Experience with additional real-time broadcast platforms such as Ross XPression, Pixotope, or Zero Density.
- Knowledge of Python or C++ for engine-side customization.
- Experience with version control systems such as Perforce or Git.
- Familiarity with large-scale display technologies, including LED video walls and projection mapping.
Why You’ll Love It Here
You’ll have the opportunity to combine creative craft and emerging technology while contributing to real-time experiences across Versant’s sports and entertainment portfolio. You’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, experiment with evolving real-time tools, and help shape workflows that support high-profile live productions.
This position is fully remote, with opportunities for in-person collaboration approximately 10% of the time.
The salary range for this position is $100,000–$130,000, where applicable. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as relevant experience, skills, and other job-related considerations, consistent with applicable law.
Additional Information
As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
For LA County and City Residents Only: VERSANT Media will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, or arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].
VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.
VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.
