Animator

Role overview

Operational Autonomy: Completely self-motivated and highly structured; you can manage massive timelines, complex layer hierarchies, and fast production turnarounds without letting a single detail slip through the cracks. You will be constantly creating, testing new visual boundaries, and seeing your technical execution hit production instantly. The MissionStatic user interfaces and uninspired motion design are completely dead to us. If you have the drive to master our core layout principles, the speed to match our rapid product updates, and the structural discipline to deliver clean, highly optimized assets that integrate flawlessly with modern UI layers, we will give you the ultimate digital stage to build your legacy.

What you'll do

• Kinetic Character & Asset Design: Animate characters, environments, and custom icons, preserving absolute volumetric integrity, weight, and visual energy across every sequence.
• VFX Engineering: Conceptualize and execute high-octane visual effects that amplify high-stakes actions, user milestones, and critical interactive touchpoints.
• UI Motion Integration: Collaborate directly with Frontend Engineers to embed smooth, reactive micro-animations and seamless transitions into our web layouts, eliminating user friction.
• Storyboarding & Pre-Visualization: Translate abstract concepts and product roadmaps into clear storyboards, animatics, and scene compositions to lock down narrative momentum before production.
• Asset Optimization: Balance high-fidelity visual flair with strict technical performance, outputting clean web-ready files (such as JSON/Lottie, WebP, or layered image sheets) that load instantly on global networks.
• Pipeline Management: Maintain a flawless, perfectly cataloged library of master files, ensuring our design and product teams can access and deploy your motion assets in real time.
• Kinetic Character & Asset Design: Animate characters, environments, and custom icons, preserving absolute volumetric integrity, weight, and visual energy across every sequence.
• Storyboarding & Pre-Visualization: Translate abstract concepts and product roadmaps into clear storyboards, animatics, and scene compositions to lock down narrative momentum before production.

What the employer is looking for

• The "Principles Elite": Deep, intuitive mastery of core animation mechanics including Timing, Squash and Stretch, Slow-in/Slow-out, Anticipation, and dynamic color theory.
• The "Motion Instinct": A breathtaking professional showreel demonstrating raw kinetic flow, sharp weight distribution, and high-impact visual composition.
• Hyper-Availability: This isn't a slow-moving design house. When major features drop or live campaigns pivot, you must be highly responsive and available to execute real-time render modifications and asset updates.
• Operational Autonomy: Completely self-motivated and highly structured; you can manage massive timelines, complex layer hierarchies, and fast production turnarounds without letting a single detail slip through the cracks.