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. And this is where you come in…
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.
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In this role, you can expect to be involved in:
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Character Animation Design and Creation:
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Oversee the design and creation of character animations, including character
movements, facial expressions, and cinematic sequences.
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Artistic Vision Alignment:
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Ensure that animations align with the game's artistic vision and style,
enhancing the player's immersion and engagement.
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Storytelling through Animation:
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Champion the use of animation as a powerful storytelling tool, helping to
convey character personalities, emotions, and narrative elements.
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Collaboration and Communication:
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Collaborate with writers, directors, and designers to ensure that animation
serves the game's storytelling objectives.
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Best Practices Development:
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Work with the Art Director and Art team to design, implement, and communicate
best practices to the entire art production team.
To be successful in this role, your background includes:
- 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.
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: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our
benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal
treatments and drugs.
- Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so
you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and
allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or
Personal Spending Account.
- RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for
their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days
with us.
- PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off,
paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
- Employee and Family Assistance Program: this program provides crisis
management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for
emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
- Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare
providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your
home.
- Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and
professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an
education stipend.
- Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls
within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role
or level-up to a promotion.
- Cool spaces: Our offices are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver,
Montreal, Prince Edward Island, and Seoul. Whether it’s summers on the
rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, watching the fireworks in Montreal’s
South Shore, or trying local eats in Downtown Charlottetown - we want our
people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
- Giving back: Kabammers have a dedicated paid day off every year to volunteer
to a cause close to their hearts. Some teams even band together for group
volunteer days off-site!
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$98,880 - $123,600 a year
The typical hiring range listed above is specific to candidates located in
Vancouver. The salary will be determined based on your knowledge, skills and
competencies, and you’ll have room to grow after you join!
If you’re interested in the position but your expectations don’t fully align
with the provided range, we still encourage you to apply! Considerations may be
made based on your experience level.
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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, Marvel Contest of Champions
[https://www.playcontestofchampions.com/], Shop Titans
[https://playshoptitans.com/], and more have generated hundreds of millions of
downloads and have 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
in 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 existing and
potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications
and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex
(including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation,
political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition,
genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status,
prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with
federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will
be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the
selection process.
