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Senior 2D Animator
Kabam
Job Summary
At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming. We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what it takes to make great games.
The Senior 2D Animator is responsible for leading and overseeing the animation of all characters in the game, ensuring that our games feature exceptional character animations and bring our game worlds to life. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the animation style, quality, and storytelling within our games.
This role is a full-time, on-site position based 5 days a week at our Downtown Vancouver studio.
Key Responsibilities
- Character Animation Design and Creation: Oversee the design and creation of character animations, including character movements, facial expressions, and cinematic sequences.
- Artistic Vision Alignment: Ensure that animations align with the game’s artistic vision and style, enhancing the player’s immersion and engagement.
- Storytelling through Animation: Champion the use of animation as a powerful storytelling tool, helping to convey character personalities, emotions, and narrative elements.
- Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate with writers, directors, and designers to ensure that animation serves the game’s storytelling objectives.
- Best Practices Development: Work with the Art Director and Art team to design, implement, and communicate best practices to the entire art production team.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Undergraduate degree or college diploma (or equivalent) in a related field (3D animation, traditional animation, film, TV production, computer graphics, etc.)
- 8+ years working in mobile or console game development.
- Experience developing automated animation systems, developing tools and pipelines.
- Advanced experience with animations, schematics, rigging and setups.
- Problem solves all technical issues involving animation.
- Experience with MotionBuilder and Maya animation tools.
- Experience with Unity is a plus.
Benefits & Compensation
Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:
- Extended Health Coverage: Effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
- DEIB Benefits: Includes gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
- Flexible Spending Accounts: Benefits built on a flex credit model, allowing you to choose coverage levels and allocate credits to RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
- RRSP Matching: Contribution matching program after 90 days of employment.
- PTO and Parental Leave: Paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
- Employee and Family Assistance Program: Crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
- Telus Virtual Health: Increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from home.
- Learning and Growth: Regular lunch & learns and an education stipend to support personal and professional growth.
- Pay Transparency: Clear pay ranges and career maps for growth and promotion opportunities.
- Cool Spaces: Offices in multiple cities with amenities like rooftop patios and local events.
- Giving Back: ‘Agents of Change’ initiative supporting community events and fundraisers.
- Hybrid Work: Flexible arrangements with a minimum of 2 days in-office; full-remote options available for certain positions.
Salary Range: $98,880 – $123,600 per year (specific to candidates located in Vancouver). Salary determined based on knowledge, skills, and competencies, with room to grow after joining.
Application Process
Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and inclusive workforce, so if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways – you could be a great fit for this or other positions.
We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!
About Kabam
Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology, and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.
Kabam’s games, including Marvel Contest of Champions and Shop Titans, have generated hundreds of millions of downloads and received multiple awards including Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.
Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal and Charlottetown in Canada, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States, and Seoul, South Korea. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.
Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace and inclusive environment for all employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not on any protected class status. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates during the selection process.
