Animator

The role

You will inject motion, dynamic pacing, and visual effects into the Partyhat web ecosystem. This role involves animating characters, environments, and icons, as well as collaborating with engineers to integrate micro-animations into web layouts.

What you will do

• Animate characters, environments, and custom icons.
• Conceptualize and execute high-octane visual effects.
• Collaborate with Frontend Engineers to embed micro-animations and transitions into web layouts.
• Translate concepts into storyboards, animatics, and scene compositions.
• Output clean web-ready files like JSON/Lottie, WebP, or layered image sheets.
• Maintain a cataloged library of master files.

Required qualifications

• Mastery of core animation mechanics including Timing, Squash and Stretch, Slow-in/Slow-out, Anticipation, and dynamic color theory.
• Professional showreel demonstrating kinetic flow, weight distribution, and visual composition.
• Highly responsive and available for real-time render modifications and asset updates.
• Self-motivated and able to manage massive timelines and complex layer hierarchies.
• Advanced keyframing, parenting, expression scripting, and VFX composition in Adobe After Effects.
• Elite skeletal animation, mesh deformation, and skeletal weight mapping in Spine 2D.
• Layer preparation, asset decoupling, and graphic management in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

Benefits

• Absolute Creative Sovereignty
• Global Canvas
• A Culture of Momentum
• High-Growth Upside

About the company

Partyhat is a fast-moving, internet-native team that moves at lightspeed.