Level is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Animator to join our growing in-house team to support our Guide Team. You'll be instrumental in shaping the movement, emotion, and personality of our characters through performance-driven animation, facial animation, lip sync, and dialogue scenes. A significant part of this role involves procedural animation, including collaborating with engineers to define direction and ensure systems reflect the intended performances. As a Senior Animator you will also be working closely with artists and technical artists, your work will have a direct impact on the project's cinematic storytelling and narrative. What You Will Do: • Design and produce high-quality cinematic/narrative animations (character) that align with artistic vision. • Collaborate closely with the Character teams to ensure animations enhance storytelling, and emotional impact. • Giving feedback and direction to tech artists to get the highest fidelity animation possible • Implement and iterate animations in-engine (e.g., Unity or Unreal Engine), with awareness of real-time performance and technical limitations. • Participate in regular review sessions, providing and receiving feedback to continually refine animation quality. Qualifications Need to Have: • 5+ years of experience as a narrative/cinematic animator, with a strong portfolio demonstrating polished, stylized acting character animation. • Proficiency in industry-standard animation tools such as Maya. • Experience integrating animations into a game engine. • Solid understanding of animation principles (timing, weight, anticipation, etc.) and how they apply in a gameplay context. • Familiarity with narrative or emotionally expressive animation work. • Collaborative mindset and excellent communication skills; comfortable working across disciplines. Nice to Have: • Prior experience on a shipped game, ideally in a small-to-mid-size studio environment. • Animation Graph or State Machine Experience • Scripting knowledge (e.g., Python, Blueprint, or Unity C#) to enhance animation systems or automate tasks. • Godot experience