Senior Character Animator and Rigger

Overview

Our Mission: To capture the hearts and minds of millions of players across the world by creating unforgettable games powered by the best technology.

About Us: PlayQ is a rapidly growing entertainment and technology company that recognizes quality is king as we deliver unforgettable mobile game experiences to a global audience. Our games engage millions of users daily, surprising them with creativity, beauty and fun! Our latest hit game, Treasure Party, uniquely combines match-3 puzzle gameplay with a board game adventure, offering a vibrant treasure-hunting experience.

Treasure Party is quickly becoming a top title in the match-3 genre with fresh adventures and a fun, rewarding journey perfect for puzzle lovers and adventurers alike.

Our team is driven, playful and deeply committed to excellence and innovation. We work together to craft clever, visually stunning, and memorable experiences. PlayQ’s environment values initiative, collaboration, and individual leadership to ensure that our mission is fulfilled.

• Proactive Achiever You consistently take the initiative to drive business results, supported by sound reasoning and detailed execution plans.
• Growth Driver You champion company-wide success by relentlessly focusing on achieving results, understanding how your work impacts the entire organization, and pushing to make it 10% better every time. You continuously level yourself up and drive the business forward.
• Solution Seeker Fueled by curiosity, you explore various ways to solve a problem. Every hard problem is an opportunity in disguise.
• Team Builder You actively foster strong dynamics within and between teams, contributing to our collective success.
• Resilient Leader You consistently approach your work with resilience and a steadfast passion for achievement of our goals despite challenges or setbacks.
• Data-Driven Creator You leverage data to back intuition. Empirical creativity is your go-to. Imagination led, data validated.

Our Senior Character Animator and Rigger role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the visual identity of Treasure Party through high-quality, character-driven marketing content. In this high-impact position, you’ll build robust, reusable rigging systems and create polished character animations that bring our world and our characters to life across trailers, ads, and promotional campaigns.

You will own the creation of modular, scalable rigs, reusable motion libraries, and polished, cinematic character animations used across top-of-funnel UA campaigns, promo videos, and storytelling-driven PNP (Puzzle and Peril) creative. You will also support the development of animation systems, facial rigs, action templates, and character-driven sequences that help us test high-impact ads faster. Leveraging deep expertise in Blender and cinematic storytelling pipelines, you’ll help establish the foundation of 3D character animation production at PlayQ—raising quality, efficiency, and creative output across all marketing art production.

This role collaborates closely with the Creative Director, motion designers, 3D generalists, editors, and outsourced partners, ensuring all character assets meet the highest standards of performance and polish.

• Rig Development: Develop, design, and maintain modular, scalable rigs for humanoid and non-humanoid characters in Blender.
• Advanced Systems: Build advanced rigging systems including FK/IK switching, squash/stretch setups, constraint-based control systems, space switching, and facial systems using shape keys or blend shapes.
• Character Animation: Animate cinematic sequences, character reactions, narrative shots, emotional beats, and gameplay-inspired moments for Treasure Party’s PNP pipeline and marketing videos (UA, ASO, trailers, and promos).
• Motion Library: Create and manage a reusable library of motion cycles, action templates, expressions, transitions, and animation building blocks for iterative ad testing.
• Creative
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with the Creative Director, Lead Artists, and internal partners to maintain consistency, character fidelity, and brand alignment across rigs…